I-75 runs north-south through here. The 'Ronald Reagan Cross-County' Highway is shown at the right hand side of this map (dated from the late 1970s) and has since been completed across the very bottom of this map and westward about 6 km to I-275. The interchange with Galbraith Rd is different from what is shown here, too.
One of the widest median 'splits' of an urban freeway occurs here on I-75 in the northern suburbs of Cincinnati, OH. The southbound side of current I-75 was the origional freeway, built as an early 4 lane highway and threaded through a *tight* urban area. This roadway appears to be a surface street that was upgraded to become the freeway. As automobile usage in general and the Cincinnati area itself both grew during the 1960s and 1970s, the origional 4 lanes quickly became woefully inadequate. Since it would have been prohibitively expensive and disruptive to widen the existing freeway, Ohio DOT engineers decided to construct the new northbound roadway on a new right-of-way and convert the existing 4 lanes to southbound only. The result is a sizable blue-collar suburban neighborhood that is in fact in the median of a freeway.
For a distance north of this split, there is also an interesting set of frontage/collector/distributor lanes (including a neat crossover just off the top of the map) to provide access to the local areas along the freeway.
Also, the 'Conrail' railroad through the 'median' goes over the southbound side of I-75 and under the northbound side, as does Galbraith Rd.
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