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Walker
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See Plans for I-70/71 Bridges and Urban Avenues

The Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) and its partners invite you to join them as they present concepts for seven bridges and share final plans for four new urban avenues.

Seven Bridges
– Broad Street
– 18th Street
– Parsons Avenue
– Main Street
– Town Street
– Grant Avenue
– Oak Street

Four New Urban Avenues
– Elijah-Pierce Boulevard
– Lester Avenue
– Mound Street
– Fulton Street

These Enhancements are Part of the I-70/71 Columbus Crossroads Project

When complete, this project will improve interstate safety and better connect neighborhoods in downtown Columbus.

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School Employees Retirement System of Ohio
1st Floor Meeting Rm.
300 E. Broad St. Columbus, OH 43215

Located on the COTA line. Free parking available in the SERS garage off Grant Ave.

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Posted 4 months ago #
titleistcm
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I would like to go to this! Too bad I will be out of town. Hopefully someone on here will post what comes out of this meeting. Also, I have been unable to find a the future state map of this project. I want to know how many lanes each highway will have when completed. When the 161/270 project was being constructed, I remember there was a 3D virtual drive on their website that was really neat.

Also, did they choose against spending the money on capping some of these bridges? If so, this is a bad decision. The cap at 670/High St. is a huge success. One would think that funding could be replenished through the tenants that would come in.

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bjones7
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titleistcm said:
I would like to go to this! Too bad I will be out of town. Hopefully someone on here will post what comes out of this meeting. Also, I have been unable to find a the future state map of this project. I want to know how many lanes each highway will have when completed. When the 161/270 project was being constructed, I remember there was a 3D virtual drive on their website that was really neat.

Also, did they choose against spending the money on capping some of these bridges? If so, this is a bad decision. The cap at 670/High St. is a huge success. One would think that funding could be replenished through the tenants that would come in.

+1 if they did cut plans for not capping one of the bridges! Broad St would be a great bridge to cap. It could rejuvenate the area!

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ZHC
101 East Main Street, Downtown
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To my knowledge the Caps are considered a wholly seperate project and never included in the first place, despite the way the split reconstruction project was pitched to the public.
The bridges I believe are still planned to be "caps capable" but that's about it.

AFAIK the caps never were greenlit and I doubt given ODOT's anticipated future funding issues that they will be without major civic push/PR campaign.

That's my understanding based off what I've been told at these meetings in the past anyway.

Wish I could got to meeting,I'd really like to see what they plan to do to Mound & Fulton, but I have obligations on Thrusday. :(

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Walker
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ZHC said:
The bridges I believe are still planned to be "caps capable" but that's about it.

I've heard from a very reliable source who is close to the project that "cap capable" means absolutely nothing. The addition of retail caps later on would still require highway lanes to be shut down for additional construction, and the expenses practically guarantee that Short-North-style caps will not be built without additional dollars from ODOT.

Coupled with the fact that ODOT is now pushing back the other phases of this project due to budget woes and this whole project is looking worse with every passing week.

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ZHC
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Walker said:
this whole project is looking worse with every passing week.

I'd argue it looked terrible from the get-go. What you shared is unfortunately hardly surprising although it is disappointing.

I hate it when my pessimism ends up being justified.

This sort of outcome is the sort of thing I was afraid since I first heard of it. And I doubt the general public even realizes yet that the Caps aren't coming.

Disappointing to see downtown get steamrolled yet again by freeway concerns. This monstrosity looks to weigh on downtown development for possibly decades to come of uncertainty.

a generational lost opportunity for sure.

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Walker
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ODOT Seeks Feedback on Downtown Bridge and Street Designs
By: Walker

The Ohio Department of Transportation held a public meeting on January 19th to solicit feedback on the designs for Phases 2 and 3 of of the Downtown highway split fix. While the build out of these phases was recently pushed back due to funding, the design work is still being completed, and feed back is due by Monday, February 6th. You can submit your feedback directly via mail to info@odot7071.org.

READ MORE: http://www.columbusunderground.com/odot-seeks-feedback-on-downtown-bridge-and-street-designs

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