Wednesday, August 11, 1999
Small piece of new highway to open
BY TANYA ALBERT
The Cincinnati Enquirer
A small piece of the new Fort Washington Way should make its debut Thursday morning.
Drivers on southbound Interstate 75 who take the Fort Washington Way exit will be on new highway bridges for a brief jaunt before cutting back to the old eastbound lanes.
“The same traffic patterns will be there,” said Don Gindling, Cincinnati's construction manager on the downtown highway project. “There will just be a little bit of a new orientation.”
Drivers will still be able to get to the Pete Rose Way exit or continue east on Fort Washington Way.
While traffic uses the new bridges, crews can demolish the old ramp from I-75 south to eastbound Fort Washington Way to make way for the opening of the new westbound lanes in early October.
The traffic change is exciting for people who have been working on the highway for the past 13 months: “It means we're getting there,” Mr. Gindling said.
Tens of thousands of people have changed their commuting patterns since last summer when crews started demolishing the three-quarter-mile-long highway from the Interstate 71/75 Brent Spence Bridge through the Lytle Tunnel.
The $146.9 million highway project will make the expressway straighter, narrower and safer. It's scheduled to open in August 2000.
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