Talk:Ohio State Route 161

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This article needs a section on points of interest along route 161 and a section on junctions. --DatraxMada 13:06, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

I'll do junctions. Vid the Kid - Does this font make me look fat? 15:00, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

The history section doesn't quite make sense and doesn't match my memory or old maps. From the eastern junction of I-270 to Big Walnut Creek (including the Sunbury Rd interchange) OH-161 has been a freeway since before the 90s. When the New Albany Bypass was completed, (1997 according to article) the road was already a freeway from I-270 to two miles east of New Albany, but the article says this was accomplished as a separate upgrade in 2000. I think there might have been a time when a short stretch of OH-161 on the west end of the bypass (what is now the Little Turtle Way interchange) wasn't completed as a freeway yet, but I wouldn't have considered the bypass itself completed under these conditions, and I'm sure it didn't last three years. (It should be noted that I have found at least one contradiction on John Simpson's site: http://pages.prodigy.net/john.simpson/highways/rr1926.html seems to imply that OH-1 never existed after 1926, but http://pages.prodigy.net/john.simpson/highways/071.html presents some information on OH-1's routing in the 60s.) ODOT's SLD's identify the bypass section with the year 1993, which I think is the year the project started. So I think the history point for the year 2000 should be removed -- but I don't know this with enough certainty to do it myself.Vid the Kid - Does this font make me look fat? 00:05, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

Screw it, I'm merging the 1997 and 2000 history points. The New Albany Bypass was never anything but a freeway. Vid the Kid - Does this font make me look fat? 14:58, 11 November 2006 (UTC)