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Well Chesapeake, OH but there ain't shit there. Huntington on the other side in WV is where everything is.

Well Chesapeake, OH but there ain't shit there. Huntington on the other side in WV is where everything is.
[–] 2 pts

Based on your experience, could that be built in a reasonable time frame and without the need to put toll booths on it?

[–] 1 pt

Short answer? No. Who knows? And define reasonable. What's the appetite of the average Ohioan for a toll road or some (((alternative))) funding scheme that fucks them over? If they had an alignment and funding in place today, it would probably be 25 years MINIMUM before it could be completed and functioning.

TLDR: Nominally, it's a 230 mile straight line distance. It's been 10 years, but the rough budgetary number was $1M/lane mile back then for new construction ($4M/mile for brand new interstate - call it $7M today). And that's just the construction. There's also right of way to be acquired and relocation of displaced people. For a huge corridor project like this, the trick is to use existing highways as a backbone - use 4 lanes in place where possible; utilize good 2 lane sections and build a new 2 lane roadway next to it if the geometrics are good; and then as a last resort build 4 lanes on new alignment. That's why they're doing this high level feasibility study.

So in today's dollars, worst case that's $7M x 230 = $1.6B plus say another 100% for R/W, relocation, environmental stuff, engineering, administration, etc. Call it $5B then - and then double it to account for normal inflation through time. Add in hyperinflation because our currency is about as capable as toilet paper, and... You get the idea.

Its a pipe dream, but someone has to have a vision or shit stagnates. And maybe Ohio has an aspiring politician that's full of piss an vinegar with their his eyes set on a grand political career, and they'll shepherd this mess to fruition. Remember Denver's Federico Peña and the new Denver airport back in the 90s? It launched his career...

[–] 1 pt

AFAIK, the only toll road in The United Emirates of Ohio and Outer Lands is 80/90/76 across the top of the state. Us normal folk don't have any reason to be on 80, so it's mostly fleecing the through travelers.