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ODOT spends millions per year picking up trash on Ohio’s highways Eileen McClory © Provided by Dayton Daily News ODOT crews pick up trash along I-75 in Moraine on Friday, March 12. CONTRIBUTED People who throw fast-food cups and other trash out of their car window onto the side of the highway cost taxpayers millions of dollars each year. The Ohio Department of Transportation spends about $4 million per year on average picking up around 400,000 bags of trash from along Ohio’s roadsides. “This money could be better spent if people would simply keep trash in their vehicl...

Stop throwing your trash onto the highway. It could save you money.  Taxpayers paid more than $40 million dollars to clean garbage off Ohio’s interstates in the past decade. And litter leavers aren’t slowing down.  “We can clean up 5 miles of litter,” said Ray Marsch, local spokesman for the Ohio Department of Transportation. “You come back the next week or over the weekend, and it looks like we didn't do anything.” It’s the equivalent of every man, woman and child in Ohio throwing about 33 cents out their window each year, but every spring Marsch said it's clear the proble...

Ohio counties get funding boost to improve transit access to vaccination sites “We don’t want transportation to be a barrier, and that’s the bottom line.” Funding for transit: Effort to get people to vaccination appointments By Brittany Harry | March 15, 2021 at 10:47 PM EDT - Updated March 16 at 5:36 PM COLUMBUS, Ohio (FOX19) - The Ohio Department of Transportation is allocating $7 million to help people get to their COVID-19 vaccination appointments. The money will be distributed among all 88 Ohio counties to help local transit agencies and health departments. â€...

The Ohio Department of Transportation has reported 10 snowplows struck by drivers this week alone. There were only 8 incidents total last winter.

Ohio gets C- on 2021 infrastructure report card, with worst grades in water Cameron Fields, cleveland.com © Gus Chan, The Plain Dealer/cleveland.com/TNS A crane lowers a basket of people 200 feet below ground level into the Westerly Storage Tunnel on May 15, 2019. The tunnel is part of Project Clean Lake, the Sewer District's 25-year, $3 billion infrastructure investment program. The two-mile long tunnel runs beneath Tremont, Ohio City and Detroit-Shoreway neighborhoods and is the fourth of seven tunnels. CLEVELAND, Ohio — The American Society of Civil Engineers gave Ohio...