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Highway Chronicle Chapter
XIII:
Today's
Thoroughfares Carry the Pulse of Our Modern Society
Today, there
are approximately 4,618 miles of highways, roads and streets in Franklin County
serving the travel needs of 1.1 million locally registered vehicles.
Maintenance
and capital improvement projects are provided by the County Engineer’s Office
(271 miles of county roadway),
District Six of the Ohio Department of Transportation (118 miles of interstate highway, 117 miles of federal routes, and
122 miles of state routes), townships (362 miles of roads and streets), and
municipalities (3,625 miles of roads and streets). (White Road at McDowell Road
shown here)
Regional
transportation agencies also include the Mid-Ohio Regional Planning
Commission,
which performs comprehensive travel and environmental studies, allocates federal
funding for infrastructure improvements, and manages
a commuter rideshare program; the Central
Ohio Transit Authority, which provides public bus service throughout
Franklin County, and parts of Delaware, Fairfield, Licking and Union Counties; and
the Paving the Way traffic
management program, which assists government agencies with the planning and distribution of road
construction information.
Ohio’s
approximately 118,000 miles of highways, roads, and streets comprise the
nation’s ninth largest roadway network. It provides for the transportation of
8.8 million licensed Ohio drivers, more than 12 million Ohio registered
vehicles, and thousands of daily visitors.
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