“Trucks will continue to travel up and down Interstate 75 during construction. That's because lanes will be narrowed only from 12 feet to 10 feet during work - still wide enough for big trucks to navigate.”

That’s good news – sort of -- in a comprehensive story on coming improvements on I-75 in the Cincinnati area. The story in Sunday’s Cincinnati Enquirer by Dan Sewell details plans to improve one piece of the major truck route, perhaps the most critical highway connector between Miami, Atlanta and points south on one hand and the entire Central Midwest on the other.
Don’t plan alternate routes just yet. Construction won’t begin for another five years. However, the project will have a major impact on Midwest traffic in the years ahead.
According to the Enquirer, the project it just one of many on I-75 “stretching ahead for years. From now to 2020, more than $1.5 billion could be spent to upgrade I-75 from northern Warren County in Ohio to Grant County in Kentucky, culminating in the biggest project of all - replacing the Brent Spence Bridge over the Ohio River.”
For more information about plans for I-75 in Ohio, check out www.thruthevalley.com, a web site set up by the Ohio Department of Transportation.