2y ago

New Ohio Law Promises to Tear Down Neighborhoods for Highways

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New Ohio Law Promises to Tear Down Neighborhoods for Highways — Streetsblog USA

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2y ago

New Ohio Law Promises to Tear Down Neighborhoods for Highways - Highway interchanges would need to be built every 4.5 miles with no exceptions for housing or local gov't opposition

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An Ohio law would require state transportation officials to build highway interchanges every 4.5 miles — even if they have to tear down homes and businesses to do it.
That’s crazy.
The targeted neighborhood homes primarily belong to retired persons, young families, or others on a fixed income.
Of course.
In March 2023, hours before the Ohio state governor signed the new House Bill 23, State Representative Tom Patton wrote new language in the transportation budget
And done in an underhanded way.
- If there's no fuckin' houses left there what's the interchange needed for?
  
  "It's a bypass. You've got to build bypasses."
  
  I live nearby so I can give some perspective . The area is a large sprawl of developments between two of the biggest Cleveland suburbs. The homes that will be demolished near the highway have been there for decades. They have two nearby exits already so it's a mild inconvenience to drive 5 minutes up the road.
  
  Big box stores.
- Of course, and they are banking on the voter fatigue from the whole Issue 1 ordeal to give them cover.
  
  Damn, I really hope they don't get it. This whole thing is so fucked.
New law same as the old law.
Here around we have a few interchanges only 10km/6miles apart, which is already quite close. So basically an interchange every 5min on the motorway and 15/20min apart if you take parallel roads. But to mandate such a thing … wow.

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