Highways

Before Europeans settled here, Ohio was home to many different indigenous cultures. From the Adena and Hopewell people, who constructed massive earthworks such as the Serpent Mound, to the Lenape or Delaware people, who were forced from their lands on the East Coast by expanding colonies.That history inspired a WOSU listener to ask Curious Cbus if the highways we drive in Ohio today follow the same path as American Indian trails from centuries ago.

A highway project in southern Colorado recently turned up seven previously unknown Native American archaeological sites. The road is going ahead anyway over objections from some tribal members.

Ohio's first-ever 'smart lane' has opened. The smart lane is meant to reduce traffic congestion heading out of downtown on eastbound Interstate 670.The…

You are enough. You are valuable. You are worthy.Mantras like these have been appearing on highway overpasses and bridges across Columbus over the last…

A new report finds that compared to the rest of the country, Ohio’s highways are getting better. The study comes from the Reason Foundation , a...

Truck drivers complain that strict "hours of service" rules waste time and slow shipping. The Trump administration is poised to relax them, despite warnings from safety advocates about crashes.

The Ohio Department of Transportation is testing out new technology aimed at stopping wrong-way crashes on the highway. Signs and detectors are being…

Semi-trailers zoom by on I-71 near MAPFRE Stadium as Joel Hunt points to a patch of milkweed, adored by monarch butterflies. It's flanked by Oxeye…

If you drive Ohio highways you may have noticed more flowers and taller grass on the side of the road. The Ohio Department of Transportation has begun...

On the roof a parking garage at Nationwide Children's Hospital, Gov. Mike DeWine assured a crowd that the Columbus Crossroads reconstruction project would…