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Newsgroups: misc.transport.road
From: "Dennis S. Gulyas" <bt...@bright.net>
Date: 1999/09/27
Subject: An Applogy to Stephane (was: question about OH Tpk proposed and cancelled extension)
news:WdRH3.78$926.1577@cletus.bright.net...
> We've discussed this before. There never was a planned expansion of the I know what Brian posted above and what I said yesterday was stated as we > Ohio Turnpike system. There was talk of couple of making I-73 a toll road, > but that was killed. I recall that a couple of years ago the Ohio General > Assembly made the OH Turnpike Comm. take out some bonds to pay for free > OhDOT projects. At least that was what the news media was reporting. > -- believed to be the truth. But after doing some research today. We were wrong. The Ohio State University libraries are so nice to have in posession all the annual reports from the Ohio Turnpike Commission. It is from reading the annual reports from 1949 (or 1948) through to 1957 that I did discover that THERE WERE PLANS FOR AN EXTENDED TURNPIKE SYSTEM. (!!!) When the Commission first was started, their first job was to find a path for the turnpike. There were 5 options originally. They were... The current Ohio Turnpike An allignment following, roughly, US 30 An allignment following, roughly, US 40/I-70 An allignment following, roughly, (then) US 25/I-75 An allignment following, roughly, I-71 The commission decided to build allignment one first (that is the current turnpike today) Ground was first broken for it on October 27, 1952 with the starting of work on the bridge over the Cuyahoga River and the (former) Ohio Canal. By 1954 talks had begun for another Ohio Turnpike. This time it was going to go from Cincinnati to either Toledo (Woodville is what the OTC used) or to Conneaut. The general consensious though leaned towards a route going NE from Cincy. The OTC mentioned going from Cincinnati to a point east of Springfield along US 40 and again from a point along US 23 south of Delaware to Conneaut. By 1956, however, with the coming of the I-route system, all plans for expansion were scuttled. I cannot decively say who came up with the plans for I-70, 71, 75 and the current turnpike first. The OTC or the US dept. of Comerence. Remember there were plans for an I-route system as far back as 1948 and in that national system (for Ohio) were plans for something simular to the current routings for I-70, 71, and 75 (the current Ohio Turnpike isn't as fortunet however). So, again I can't say who took what from who, though if the second installment of the Ohio Turnpike would of gone through, its allignment would of been closer to US 42 than of I-71. So there you have it. Where there is smoke, there is fire. My apologies to you Stephane for disregarding your comments without researching them first. > pauline groleau dumas <stephdu...@videotron.ca> wrote in message -- > news:kXzH3.170$rM.13988@weber.videotron.net... > > Hi > > I checked Mike Natale's toll road page and OH Tpk section and checked > > I wonder if OH Tpk did the same thing as PA Tpk, lets the plans to OH > > thanks for reading > > Stéphane Dumas stephdu...@videotron.ca SJG bt...@bright.net - home gulya...@osu.edu - school "Rocks are my pillow The Cold ground is my bed The highway is my home." -- Magic Slim You must Sign in before you can post messages.
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