Sponsor: Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT)

Project Name: LOR IR 90 10.76 PID 107714

Estimated Total Cost: $92,193,503

Proposed Source of Federal Funds: ODOT

History/Background: ODOT is the sponsor of a project involving major rehabilitation along 7.5 miles of IR-90, from 0.64 mile east of West Ridge Road to 0.21 mile west of SR-611, in Lorain County (LOR IR 0090 10.76 PID 107714). The project is included in the NOACA state fiscal year (SFY) 2021 – 2024 Transportation Improvement Program (TIP), programmed in SFY 2024.

Proposed Project: The proposed project involves complete pavement replacement and construction of an additional lane, from SR-2 to French Creek Bridge (illustration). The additional lane is a recommendation made in the Interstate 90 Transportation Systems Management and Operations (TSMO) Study, Task 1 | PID 111076 | October 25, 2021.

The purpose of the study was to investigate IR-90 between SR-2 (MM 11.93) and SR-611 (MM 18.82), which was identified as the highest need freeway segment in District 3 according to the Traffic Operations Assessment Systems Tool (TOAST). The need of study and corridor revolved around reducing peak hour crashes and related congestion.

According to the TSMO Study, a lane add / six-lane widening is recommended based on benefits in crash reduction and improved travel times versus the no-build and comparable capital costs to a hard shoulder running strategy.

The project’s estimated total cost, provided by the sponsor, is $92,193,503.  The estimated cost of preliminary engineering environmental (PE Env) is $549,543. The estimated cost of preliminary engineering environmental detailed design (PEDD) is $5,324,960.The estimated cost of construction (CO) is $79,700,000. The estimated cost of construction engineering (CE) is $6,619,000. The PE Env, PEDD, CO and CE phases will be funded with federal funding and state funding sources.

Staff Comment (Summary):

CONDITION

• Nonattainment areas, through a process called transportation conformity, are required to demonstrate that emissions resulting from planned transportation system improvements will not exceed an area’s emissions budgets. The United States Department of Transportation (U.S. DOT) issues formal transportation conformity determinations to nonattainment areas following a quantitative analysis. The analysis demonstrates that emissions from vehicles traveling on the planned transportation system are less than the area’s emissions budget.  The planning process determined that the proposed project adds capacity and will require a conformity determination.  If the proposed project successfully completes project planning review, it will be considered for inclusion in the SFY 2024 - 2027 TIP and associated air quality regional conformity run and not as an individual project prior to that time.

INFORMATION

• NOACA is continuing to work with ODOT and impacted stakeholders in the evaluation of the project’s benefits, costs and impact.

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