BY LUCY MAY
The Cincinnati Enquirer
Although a ban on wide vehicles on westbound Fort Washington Way technically has been in effect for some time, the restriction will start to matter as of midnight Friday.
"Starting Friday at midnight, it will start to be enforced," said Don Gindling, an engineer with the city of Cincinnati and the construction manager for the Fort Washington Way project.
So far, trucks have been staying off the westbound highway pretty well, even without the enforcement, Mr. Gindling said.
A ban on vehicles more than 7 feet wide started being enforced on eastbound Fort Washington Way earlier this month. During the first week and a half of the ban, Cincinnati police wrote more than 300 tickets to drivers who defied it.
Heeding the warnings will be especially important after this weekend, when the highway's westbound ramps will close and westbound traffic will be routed to share the same half of highway as eastbound traffic. Two lanes in each direction will be maintained, but the lanes will be only 9 feet wide.
The $146.9 million project is designed to narrow the city's east-west connector and make it safer.
