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Central Ohio was recently ranked as the second best region in America for commuters, with an average travel time of only 22.8 minutes.

The Transportation Plan

The Transportation Plan for the EAZ builds upon the 2007 Dublin Community Plan and addresses in greater detail the specific character and alignment of internal roads. Significant macro-level transportation modeling based on assumed land use densities as part of the Community Plan ensures that the area’s road network will be able to address traffic levels into the future. Expected densities as part of the land use component of the EAZ Plan have not changed in a manner that would negatively impact that analysis.

The plan for future transportation improvements was established to provide a clear internal system of public streets that will result in predictability and enhance development potential for the entire area. The network includes a number of significant elements and alignments that vary from assumptions made as part of the

Community Plan’s adopted Thoroughfare Plan, although general connectivity remains the same:

» » Creating an interstate reliever along U.S. 33 to enhance access for commuters and to better separate through-traffic from area neighborhoods;

» » Creating a future entrance to Darree Fields to downplay residential portions of Shier Rings Road between Eiterman and Cosgray Roads;

» » Establishing a more defined entry point into residential areas along Cosgray Road south of the EAZ; and

» » Creating an east-west connection paralleling SR 161 that will provide additional options to access the interchange and to link with transit along the railroad.