Wednesday, April 12, 2000
Meeting opens study of I-75
Congestion, safety, age among issues
BY Jim Hannah
The Cincinnati Enquirer
Tristate officials will launch a 24-month, $6 million study on how to update sections of 40-year-old Interstate 75 today in the first in a series of monthly public meetings.
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IF YOU GO
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• What: North South Transportation Initiative public meeting.
• When: 2-4 p.m. today.
• Where: Evendale Recreation Center, 10500 Reading Road.
• Information: 621-6300.
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The North South Transportation Initiative intends to make recommendations on how to relieve congestion, improve safety, rebuild dated interchange designs and improve air quality. Funding for the finalized plans will be sought when Congress meets in 2003.
“We will also be looking at providing options to the commuter by putting in more bus service or some kind of rail service,” said Warner Moore, director of the study. “We know there is already some interest in providing a rail-transit connection.”
The Ohio-Kentucky-Indiana Regional Council of Governments (OKI) and its counterpart in the Miami Valley region will conduct the study with the cooperation of the more than 40 local communities located along the corridor.
OKI is the federally designated Metropolitan Planning Organization for Greater Cincinnati. OKI serves the eight-county region of Butler, Clermont, Hamilton and Warren counties in Ohio; Boone, Campbell and Kenton counties in Kentucky; and Dearborn County in Indiana.
With its connection to Canadian Highway 401, I-75 serves as a major international corridor and is one of the nation's busiest interstate routes.
OKI says I-75 is the busiest trucking route in North America, running from Detroit to Miami. Between 12,000 and 15,000 trucks use I-75 throughout the study area, from downtown Cincinnati to Dayton. OKI officials say this number is much greater between I-275 and the Brent Spence Bridge.
A similar study of the I-71 corridor ended in March 1998 with the recommendation of a multimillion dollar light rail line from Covington to Blue Ash.
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