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“Although the site is within a closed traffic zone, the room is so narrow that we regularly work at night to close adjacent lanes to provide us with space for our equipment,” said Steve Marincic, Kokosing’s Columbus area manager.

By Irwin Rapoport

The Ohio Department of Transportation’s (ODOT) $1.3 billion I-70/I-71 Downtown Ramp Up project in the city of Columbus (Franklin County) is helping to replace, upgrade and rehabilitate aging highway infrastructure in the downtown core and improve traffic flow and safety for motorists. The initiative — financed with federal, state and local funds, which began in 2011 — is expected to be completed in 2037 or sooner. Kokosing Construction Company Inc. currently is engaged in work for Phases 2E ($81 million) and 3B (Broad Street, $41 million), and has completed Phase 1 (2011-14, more than $200 million) and 2G (2017-2019, $44 million). “The Downtown Ramp Up is a series of projects to reconstruct Interstates 70/71 in downtown Columbus and alleviate the biggest safety and congestion problems along the corridor,” said Breanna Badanes, ODOT’s public information officer of central Ohio. “We have already invested $270 million into the interchange improvements, and another four projects worth more than $300 million will be constructed in the next five years to rehabilitate the road network.

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Materials removed from demolition and excavation include 56,500 cu. yds. of broken concrete and 400,000 cu. yds. of dirt.

see KOKOSING page 4