Wednesday, March 15, 2000
How to dodge I-75 construction backups
Drive west to access airport, points south
BY SUSAN VELA
The Cincinnati Enquirer
Go west, young drivers. Don't go south. Starting today, those in the traffic control business are offering that advice to those living in the northern reaches of Greater Cincinnati and destined for the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport in Hebron.
An easy, breezy drive down southbound Interstate 75 and over the Brent Spence Bridge into Northern Kentucky is nearly impossible now that Fort Washington Way in Cincinnati and — beginning today — the Donaldson Road interchange in Erlanger, are under construction.
David Leonard, a supervisor at Greater Cincinnati's ARTIMIS traffic management center, says drivers lacking patience for bumper-to-bumper traffic should use westbound I-275, and the Ronald Reagan Highway and I-74 to hit I-275 instead.
Otherwise, he said, they could be destined for delays of at least 40 minutes.
It's now taking up to 25 minutes for southbound drivers to travel about three miles, from Hopple Street to the Brent Spence Bridge, Mr. Leonard said. Delays of 10 to 15 minutes are predicted for the $26.4 million Donaldson Road project, which will entail repaving the highway between I-275 and north of Turfway Road for the next two years.
Today, the connector road from southbound I-75 to Donaldson Road will close for about three months.
Airport spokesman Ted Bushelman agreed that drivers should consider other routes such as (for Hamilton County drivers) taking westbound I-74 to westbound I-275 and crossing into Indiana and then Kentucky.
Another detour would be southbound I-471 in Cincinnati to westbound I-275 in Kentucky, but Mr. Leonard warns there could be delays around rush hour.
Mr. Bushelman knows some hardy drivers still might try the familiar route of taking southbound I-75 into Kentucky to westbound I-275 to get to the airport.
“Some of them are going to come on I-75 no matter what,” he said.
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