Ohio

[wanderer2575]

I-475 Widening Feasibility Study, Perrysburg

Looks like ODOT is cooking up plans to widen the last stretch of I-475 to six lanes near Perrysburg.

Improvements include:
- Redoing the I-475/US 23 interchange to include two flyovers (converting into a cloverstack)
- Eliminating the weave between the OH 25 and I-75 interchanges on SB I-475
- Eliminating the left-hand exit and entrance on NB I-75 at the I-475 interchange

Programmed for construction in 2032-2034

They should also eliminate the left-hand entrance to I-75 north so motorists coming off of I-475 wanting to access US 20/23 Fremont Pike don't have to weave.  This whole area is a big crossroads and not just a simple interstate split, when you factor in the nearby US 24 freeway to the west and that traffic wanting to bypass central Maumee and Perrysburg to get to various points along I-75.

They are, according to the proposal drawing shown.

Relocating the northbound I-75 lanes to put the existing left-hand exit and entrance ramps on the right-hand side, and replacing the ramp bridges at the realigned I-75 thru lanes, is pretty much identical to what was done a half-dozen or so years ago at the I-75/BL I-75 interchange just outside Pontiac, MI:  https://maps.app.goo.gl/MUuo8pCBjsDpJ2RSA

Good to see this project won't tear down any of the recent improvements to eliminate the weave/merge on northbound I-475 between I-75 and OH-25.

[vtk]

- Eliminating the left-hand exit and entrance on NB I-75 at the I-475 interchange

Didn't they have this temporarily implemented with 2-way traffic on the I-75 southbound pavement during the construction project a few years ago? I was disappointed that didn't become permanent then.

[wanderer2575]

- Eliminating the left-hand exit and entrance on NB I-75 at the I-475 interchange

Didn't they have this temporarily implemented with 2-way traffic on the I-75 southbound pavement during the construction project a few years ago? I was disappointed that didn't become permanent then.

If they did, it would have been only one lane in each direction with no shoulders.  There is no room under the current ramp bridges for anything wider.  https://maps.app.goo.gl/ZFWrKfDxat8xYNzi6

[kurumi]

Interesting reddit thread on cancelled Cleveland freeways, with a few diagrams of the Heights Freeway: https://www.reddit.com/r/Cleveland/comments/1gndm4v/what_if_the_cancelled_cleveland_freeways_were/

[coldshoulder]

Interesting reddit thread on cancelled Cleveland freeways, with a few diagrams of the Heights Freeway: https://www.reddit.com/r/Cleveland/comments/1gndm4v/what_if_the_cancelled_cleveland_freeways_were/

Here's the overall Cleveland plan (developed in the late 1950's) with subsections for each freeway corridor:

https://www.clevelandmemory.org/freeways/

[seicer]

Market Street Bridge Replacement Project

STATE PROJECT: S205-002-0.09 00
FEDERAL PROJECT: STBG-0002(880)D
NEAR FOLLANSBEE, BROOKE COUNTY, WEST VIRGINIA AND STEUBENVILLE, JEFFERSON COUNTY, OHIO

The West Virginia Division of Highways (WVDOH) will hold an informational workshop public meeting on Monday, May 18, 2026, at the Follansbee Community House, 1455 Park Avenue, Follansbee, WV and Tuesday, May 19, 2026 at the Brooke Hancock Jefferson (BHJ)- Metropolitan Planning Commission (MPC) office, 127S. 4th Street, Steubenville, Ohio, to provide information on the Market Street Bridge Project. The project will involve replacing the existing bridge either in its existing location or at an alternative location to be determined based on engineering, environmental, and community considerations. This meeting complies with the public involvement requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act and Section 4(f) of the U.S. Department of Transportation Act of 1966.

NO FORMAL PRESENTATION WILL BE MADE

The public meeting will be held from 4:00 to 7:00 p.m. and the public will be afforded the opportunity to ask questions and give written comments on the project throughout the meeting. A handout with project details will be available at the meeting and on the project website.

[Plutonic Panda]

The Loop is a very good series and perhaps a dedicated thread should be made for it but here's a recent video that highlighted some good projects:

[vtk]

The Loop is a very good series and perhaps a dedicated thread should be made for it but here's a recent video that highlighted some good projects:

I watch The Loop. YouTube notifies me every week. The roundabout featured in that one has pavement markings that to me don't look like they're correctly-shaped.

[Great Lakes Roads]

https://www.richlandsource.com/2026/05/26/mansfield-planning-commission-oks-conditional-use-permit-for-proposed-buc-ees-travel-center/

Improvements are coming to the I-71/OH-39 interchange near Mansfield for the proposed Buc-ee's in the form of three roundabouts.

[carbaugh2]

ODOT has announced that it is unveiling a revamped website on June 26th. You can find the announcement here.

[Hot Rod Hootenanny]

ODOT has announced that it is unveiling a revamped website on June 26th. You can find the announcement here.

Be curious to see what the new website looks like. I haven't like the current edition. I find it too hard to find updates and archives.

[GCrites]

ODOT has announced that it is unveiling a revamped website on June 26th. You can find the announcement here.

Be curious to see what the new website looks like. I haven't like the current edition. I find it too hard to find updates and archives.

Yes, those exact things were an issue with our organization when looking to see when a certain event occurred in the past. Several of us tried and couldn't come up with the information we wanted.

[PColumbus73]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/odot-temporarily-closing-i-70-exit-ramp-west-of-downtown-due-to-wrong-way-drivers/ar-AA26s6p8

Apparently Columbus drivers are going the wrong way on the Mound St off ramp because the on ramp from Mound St to I-70 East is closed?

[carbaugh2]

The sad thing is that there is an eastbound onramp to 70 from Sullivant Ave that is less than 1/2 mile away.

[Hot Rod Hootenanny]

The sad thing is that there is an eastbound onramp to 70 from Sullivant Ave that is less than 1/2 mile away.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/odot-temporarily-closing-i-70-exit-ramp-west-of-downtown-due-to-wrong-way-drivers/ar-AA26s6p8

Apparently Columbus drivers are going the wrong way on the Mound St off ramp because the on ramp from Mound St to I-70 East is closed?

For whatever reason, Columbus drivers have a long history of driving wrong way onto interstates going back over 25 years. Its why you see an overabundance of Wrong Way signs at exits in this city.

[GCrites]

It's because you can't drive 5 minutes in this town without getting spilled onto a freeway. Then people who shouldn't be on freeways wind up on them. Drunk, old, incompetent, whatever. Other cities aren't like that.