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More of the details of how this massive Promedica / I-475 reconfiguration project will play out was laid out last night at a public meeting held by ODOT at the Sanger Branch of the Toledo-Lucas County Public Library, and it turns my stomach even more in knots that it was before.
In a nutshell, our current I-475 in West Toledo is laden with one way exit entrances. In fact there is only one genuine total interchange (east and west) in West Toledo. All other exits or entrances are one way only, meaning if you exit the highway heading west, the only entrance back on the highway is to the east. You can’t hop off Douglas, pick up your prescription at Monroe Pharmacy and then get back on I-475 and head towards the mall. The only way to get to the mall from there is to travel surface streets, many of which are currently closed or under construction themselves.
Here’s a disturbing phase of the construction from the Blade report this morning.
… the project’s inconvenience will reach a peak in the fall when the Douglas interchange also closes for reconstruction, shutting down the only other eastbound entrance east of Secor Road. Rebuilding the Douglas ramps will take “a minimum of nine to 10 months, more likely a year or even a little longer than that.”
To me, a person with a modicum of common sense, this means a lot of pressure on Secor Rd. That road is a piece of shit already, and the area north of I-475 is currently down to one lane in each direction.
Who’s in charge of this bullshit and are they fucking crazy?
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- 1,000 Days of Pain. Very Little Gain. (buckeyepayroll.com)
and the ohio map you posted is exhibit #1 of toledo’s irrelevance here and around the state – what is missing in that map? a direct interstate to columbus – instead we get caught in local traffic jams in delaware.