Union Township roads ‘will get better’

Southbound Eastgate Boulevard traffic will be switched onto new pavement Monday, Sept. 15, in Union Township as work to reconstruct and widen the road over state Route 32 nears completion.

The $10 million project scheduled to be complete early in October includes the relocation of the existing westbound entrance and exit ramps from state Route 32 to Eastgate North Drive instead of Eastgate Boulevard, and the reconstruction of the westbound loop ramp from Eastgate Boulevard to state Route 32.

Also to be completed this fall is the $6.5 million Clough Pike widening and improvement project.

It will add a third travel lane along a 1.3 mile section of Clough Pike between Mt. Carmel Tobasco Road and Glen Este-Withamsville Road, as well as a center turn lane and a sidewalk along the north side of the road.

Traffic signals and drainage also will be improved in the area.

Some $46 million-worth of improvements at the Interstate 275/state Route 32 interchange are scheduled to be complete in fall 2015.

State Route 32 will be widened from Old state Route 74 to Eastgate Square Drive.

New ramps will be built from I-275 to state Route 32 and new ramps and related structures will be built under I-275 to an Aicholtz Road connector.

“There’s an incredible amount of roadwork that’s going on in Union Township and I appreciate the patience that a majority of people have in the community and those who travel through that have shown,” Township Administrator Ken Geis said.

“It will get better.

“Especially on (state Route) 32 in the Eastgate area, you can really tell what the design is now and some of the patterns,” Geis said.

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