“Those bridges are all still safe for travel. If they weren’t, we would close

“Those bridges are all still safe for travel. If they weren’t, we would close them.”

Justin Chesnic, spokesman for Ohio Department of Transportation District 4. ODOT is the three-year process of rehabilitating seven bridges on Interstate 680. The $14.1 million project began last year, and three bridges were completed. The entire project will be completed in 2013.

“You compromise one part of the system, and you compromise the whole system.”

Rick Graham, an outdoors enthusiast from northern Ohio. Proposed Ohio rules on how much water farms and factories can draw from Lake Erie and the rivers flowing into it don’t offer enough protection for the lake’s tributaries, environmentalists and anglers say.