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Article: Turnpike at odds with area official over repair costs: Toll road says locality must pay for failing overpass approaches.
- Article from:
- The Blade (Toledo, OH)
- Article date:
- March 19, 2007
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Byline: David Patch
Mar. 19--Who's responsible for building and maintaining the bridges that carry township or county roads over the Ohio Turnpike has long been the subject of numerous disputes. But the responsibility for maintaining earthwork built on the approaches to those bridges apparently hasn't gotten similar attention -- until now. For more than a decade, Sandusky County Engineer James Moyer has been asking the Ohio Turnpike Commission to repair nine collapsing embankments that ramp local roads that cross the toll road on bridges. And for more than a decade, the turnpike has denied responsibility, saying that its upkeep extends only as far as the ...