District 11 Bimonthly NewsletterFall Quarterly 2017

Serving the transportation stakeholders in Belmont, Carroll, Columbiana, Harrison, Holmes, Jefferson, and Tuscarawas counties.

O D O T r e a d y f o r 2 0 1 7 - 2 0 1 8 W i n t e rMore than 1,600 plow

trucks will clear snow and ice in Ohio this winter – 124 of them are in District 11.

Each of ODOT’s trucks received a 150-point check in October as part of the department’s annual county-by-county Operational Readiness inspections. This allows ODOT’s mechanics to ensure snow-fighting equipment is in top shape before the snow begins to fall.

“It is our intention to be the standard of excellence for winter maintenance. Removing snow and ice from our roads and highways is extremely important and our most visible function,” said ODOT Director Jerry Wray. “The men and women of ODOT take great pride in making sure our roads are clear for safe travel.”

ODOT measures the

success of snow removal by looking at the percent of priority routes that recovered speeds within two hours of a snow event. Our crews met this goal 98 percent of the time last winter.

Last year, ODOT’s snow plow trucks were driven 6,860,696 miles

plowing and pretreating roadways. That’s like 275 trips around the Earth and like spending the equivalent

of nearly 89 years behind the wheel.

Across District 11, workers drove 604,585 miles removing snow and ice from our roadways.

Statewide, crews used 600,451 tons of salt and 12,056,596 gallons of liquid deicers to treat 43,479 lane miles of roadway.

In District 11, counties used 47,301 tons of salt to treat the 3,577 lane miles across eastern Ohio.

No matter what Mother Nature dishes out, ODOT’s 3,000 operators and 262 mechanics statewide, including over 200 drivers and 19 mechanics in District 11, will be 100 percent ready for whatever!

ODOT plows were struck 35 times in 2016, so again, we will be reminding motorists in Ice and Snow, Take it Slow and Don’t Crowd the Plow.

And remember, anyone can monitor real-time traffic

Becky Giauque, District Communications

conditions, more than 600 live traffic cameras, and get customized traffic alerts with ODOT’s free mobile app – OHGO. The app is available on the App Store and Google Play.

Thirty-two freshly decorated plows as part of the Paint-A-Plow Program were on display at this year’s Winter Readiness events across the District 11 region.

Photos by Becky G

iauque, District Com

munications.

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OHIO DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATIONDISTRICT 11

2201 REISER AVENUE SENEW PHILADELPHIA, OH 44663

330-339-6633transportation.ohio.gov

Becky Giauque, District Communications

ODOT begins work on Ohio Bridge Partnership P r o j e c t i n A d e n aFunded by Ohio’s Bridge Partnership Program

Smithfield-Adena Road (County Road 10) was closed to traffic on November 1st after a poor bridge inspection.

Working with state and local officials and the contractor for the project, ODOT expedited the replacement of this structure made possible by Gov. John R. Kasich’s Ohio Bridge Partnership Program.

ODOT’s contractor, Ohio Bridge Corporation, from Cambridge, Ohio, quickly began work and demolished the structure at the end of November.

Due to the time of year and weather conditions, officials are hoping to reopen the road by mid-April 2018.

Traffic is being detoured north on CR 10 to SR 152 south in Smithfield to SR 150 west in Dillonvale to Mt. Pleasant to the current CR 7 (Shortcreek Road) detour north on CR 6 (Mt. Pleasant-Adena Road) to Adena, and reverse.

The Ohio Bridge Partnership Program was developed by ODOT in late 2013 and provides resources to assist counties and cities with the replacement of their bridges. Since the program’s inception, two

additional phases have been added, totaling $10 million each. Altogether, about $140 million has been invested throughout the state to replace more than

220 county and city-owned bridges.

The total cost of this project is about $1 million, and the completion date is mid-October 2018.

Photo by Becky Giauque, District Communications.

In an effort to improve safety, District 11 recently teamed up with a crew from its Marietta region, District 10, to install rumble stripes on the centerline of U.S.

Route 250 through the Tappan Lake area.

District 11’s Safety Review Team determined that rumble stripes on this seven-mile stretch of roadway could

Teamwork improves safety in Harrison CountyBecky Giauque, District Communications

decrease the number of left-of-center crashes on the road.

Since District 11 doesn’t have its own painting crew, District 10 stepped in to help get the job done.

A contractor milled the rumble stripes, the District 10 team completed the painting, and ODOT’s Harrison County employees provided traffic control.

Centerline rumble stripes are designed and installed to reduce left-of-center crashes. The sound and vibration created when a vehicle rides over the rumble stripe warns

inattentive or sleeping drivers that they are traveling left-of-center. State and national studies have estimated that centerline rumble stripes can reduce crashes on two-lane roads by up to 30 percent.

Both photos by Ashley Rittenhouse, District 10 PIO.