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Hubbard Arterial ranked top road project
By Denise Dick
MAJOR ROAD PROJECTS
Eastgate Regional Council of Governments’ Technical Advisory Committee approved a resolution Thursday reprioritizing the 2010 list of major projects being submitted to the Transportation Review Advisory Council. The projects:
Hubbard Arterial, $185 million, construct four-lane arterial from Albert Street in Youngstown to the Trumbull County line.
Interstate 680/state Route 164, $9.9 million, construct partial interchange in Springfield Township.
Interstate 80, $94.8 million, add lanes from I-680/state Route 11 to state Route 193, Austintown, Liberty and Girard.
Interstate 80, $82.4 million, reconstruct ramp configurations at I-80/state Route 46/I-680/Route 11, Austintown.
State Route 82/Route 46 Interchange, $15.5 million, upgrade interchange, Howland.
State Route 82, $55.5 million, add lane construction between East Market Street and Route 11, Howland.
Route 11/Kirk Road, $10 million, construct full interchange, Austintown,
Source: Eastgate
By DENISE DICK
YOUNGSTOWN
Eastgate Regional Council of Governments is submitting a new list of projects for state and federal funding consideration.
None of the projects is expected to be reality soon.
Eastgate’s Technical Advisory Committee on Thursday adopted a resolution prioritizing seven major projects in its 2030 long-range transportation plan.
First is the $185 million Hubbard Arterial project.
“The city of Youngstown is now the sponsor,” said Kathleen Rodi, Eastgate’s transportation director.
A sponsor takes the lead on a project.
The work would involve construction of a four-lane arterial from Albert Street to Interstate 80. It will likely be many years, though, before the project actually happens, officials said.
It would extend from U.S. Route 62 at Albert Street in the city, wind through the east side of the city in to Hubbard Township where it will connect with a new interchange at Interstate 80. A new structure also would be built over the Norfolk Southern Railroad.
The Eastgate committee’s action sends the resolution to the Transportation Review Advisory Council at the state level.
The arterial project has been discussed since the 1950s, but in 2006 it was taken out of consideration by TRAC because of statewide funding shortfalls. Initially, Eastgate had proposed listing two projects at I-80 as second and third on the priority list.
Committee members wanted to change that order.
Rob Donham of the Mahoning County Engineer’s office said that office views construction of a partial interchange on Interstate 680 at state Route 164, Springfield Township as important.
Committee members voted to move that $9.9 million project up on the list.
Rodi said the order of priorities doesn’t mean those projects will receive funding more quickly. It depends at what phase in the process each project is.
The Ohio Department of Transportation asked Metropolitan Planning Organizations throughout the state to reprioritize major projects for TRAC consideration by Sept 1. TRAC hearings begin Sept. 15.
Eastgate is the Metropolitan Planning Organization for Mahoning and Trumbull counties.