Infrastructure

Water main breaks from German Village to Clintonville to the Hilltop area on the west side have had city crews with heavy duty construction equipment removing several inches of ice from residential streets.

Community members weighed in on transit concerns in and around the planned Brook Park stadium for the Browns Wednesday at a meeting hosted by the Northeast Ohio Regional Coordinating Agency.

The German Village Society wants the city to comply with a law requiring any improvements to get approval before the German Village Commission.

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.