SHARONVILLE — One of the Tristate's most congested interstate cloverleafs — Interstate 75 at Interstate 275 — will be improved in 2003 as part of a $37 million project to widen I-75 from Kemper Road here north to Tylersville Road in West Chester Township.

        Cloverleaf ramps will be widened to two lanes and improved, said Kim Patton, spokeswoman for the Ohio Department of Transportation's District 8 office in Lebanon.

        The highway will be widened from three to four lanes through northern Hamilton County into southeastern Butler County.

        “My initial reaction is that this is very necessary. I'm glad to see it happening and I'm strongly encouraged by this announcement,” said Sharonville Police Chief Mike Schappa. “We have had about eight trucks turn over on the ramp from westbound I-275 to southbound I-75.

        “There have been four from northbound I-75 to eastbound I-275. I remember paint, beer and milk (spilled) on the ramps from these trucks,” the chief said.

        West Chester Township Police Capt. Joel Herzog predicted the improvements will open up a rush-hour bottleneck “from I-275 past Union Centre Boulevard on most mornings and sometimes all the way (north) to Cincinnati-Dayton Road.”

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