The communities that Ohio 16 would bypass aren't of note - just old stops along the Walhonding Feeder.
Walhonding sounds quaint and charming. They may be happy for the by-pass, I probably would be. Can drive almost as fast on rural roads as you can on the freeway.
The Walhonding was a feeder canal that drained into the Ohio and Erie, although I guess technically Conesville, Adams Mills, and Tyndall would need bypassed. Tyndall would be the biggest issue because OH16 runs in a cut on one side of the town, with the river on the other. That would probably have required going up and around, continuing New 16.
The only reason all those data centers are out there is because power and land used to be cheap. Now it's just a big mud pit with what was supposed to be Intel.
Yeah, there are a lot of forgotten towns all along the old Canal. I can understand Tyndall not wanting to be chopped up like that.
I thought boring tunnels was so hot right now !, instead of going up and around, why don't they just go under! 😆
( is probably going to be sorry he taught me how to embed pictures, I'm having a blast with it!😄)
This article is about how much power EV battery plants need, I'm sure the data centers, if not far behind, will probably exceed them.
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