An Ohio Department of Transportation project in Cleveland was recently named one of the best transportation projects in America by the Mid Association of Transportation Officials.
The project involved constructing a connection between west side neighborhoods in Cleveland with the West Shoreway and Edgewater Park.
As part of the project, a bridge was constructed over the Chicago Line of Norfolk Southern and West 73rd Street was extended to add a multimodal path.
That project, along with a project by the Illinois Department of Transportation to construct a bridge over BNSF tracks in Galesburg, Illinois, won an American Transportation Award in the Quality of Life/Community Development category.
Both projects will compete for a national grand prize that will be announced at the annual meeting of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials in November.
The nominations are judged by officials representing a cross-section of transportation industries. Forty state departments of transportation participated in this year’s competition.
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