Restoring Prosperity
The Greater Ohio Policy Center Blog
We hope that TRAC will consider more projects that increase multi-modal options and benefits and decrease congestion. At the same time, we encourage TRAC to prioritize investments that seek to improve existing infrastructure and not the creation of new infrastructure that will only add to the long-term costs of maintenance in the future.
Skeletons, ghosts, and other things that go bump in the night; the month of October is full of scenes that call back to childhood fears and superstitions. Staff at GOPC are afraid of conventional things, like clowns and chainsaw killers, but few things keep the office up at night more than poorly designed streets.
Last spring, the Ohio General Assembly gave the greenlight to a $1.5 million feasibility study to investigate ways to site and fund a new interstate highway designed to connect Toledo to the Ohio River through Columbus. Greater Ohio Policy Center was one of the only groups to testify against the proposed study which was buried in the state transportation budget.
