Infrastructure

Crews have been tunneling adjacent to the Olentangy River to make the 3-mile sewer overflow tunnel since March 2023. The project will help ensure sewer overflow during increasingly common severe storms doesn't pollute the river.

Columbus Water and Power knows of more than 24,000 lead service lines still in the ground. The city is working to replace these pipes and also take inventory of private properties that have lead pipes to get those replaced too.

State Issue 2 called for the renewal of the Ohio Capital Improvement Program, which was first authorized in 1987.

Ohio's May 6 ballot will feature local primaries and money asks, but only one statewide question, on whether to renew a nearly 40-year-old initiative that allows the state to issue bonds to pay for local infrastructure projects.

Columbus City Council approved the Bike Plus plan on Monday night. The initiative seeks to eventually create 487 miles of new bikeways.

Downtown Columbus Inc. and other partners in the project want to start by building out a portion of the development on Gay Street before moving on to other phases of the loop.

Columbus City Council approved funding for an intersection realignment and traffic safety project at Cleveland and Myrtle avenues.

The West Broad Street route runs between North Washington Avenue in downtown Columbus to Rockbrook Crossing Avenue. The regional transit agency hopes to build other routes on the east side and another between downtown Columbus, the Ohio State campus and Dublin.

One trail project plans to connect national trail networks coast-to-coast with the Great American Rail Trail that goes from Washington D.C. to Washington State and passes through Columbus.

Facing a critical need for a safer bridge on one of America’s busiest traveled roadways, governors from Ohio and Kentucky have applied for nearly $2 billion in federal funding for the Brent Spence Bridge Corridor.