Mill Creek Expressway

Mill Creek Expressway
Maintained by Ohio DOT
Length:	17.47 mi[1] (28.12 km)
South end:	Brent Spence Bridge
North end:	Butler County
Ohio highways Interstates - U.S. Routes - State Routes

The Mill Creek Expressway or Millcreek Expressway is a freeway in Cincinnati and neighboring Hamilton County, Ohio, United States. It carries Interstate 75 through the Mill Creek valley, from the Brent Spence Bridge north to the Butler County line just north of Interstate 275.

Description

History

The Mill Creek Expressway generally follows the old Miami and Erie Canal, which extended from Cincinnati to Toledo via Dayton, itself built in the Mill Creek valley near Cincinnati. The canal extended from the Ohio River along the present locations of Eggleston Avenue and Central Parkway to Mt. Storm Park, and continued north, remaining close to the Mill Creek Expressway to Butler County. The never-opened Cincinnati Subway was built in the 1920s, mostly using the abandoned canal right-of-way from downtown to the State Route 562 interchange at St. Bernard.

The first portion of the expressway was built in 1941 - during World War II - to serve the Wright Aeronautical plant in Lockland. It was initially planned to run from Paddock Road (State Route 4) in Carthage north to Cincinnati-Dayton Road (then U.S. Route 25) near Maud,^[2] but was only built - almost completely along the old canal - between Galbraith Road and Glendale-Milford Road (then State Route 126.^{[citation needed]} A short extension was built south to Towne Street in Elmwood Place in the late 1940s.^{[citation needed]}

Exit list

Location	Mile[1]	#		Destinations	Notes
		Old[3]
Cincinnati	0.22			I-71 north/US 50 east (Fort Washington Way) to I-471 south; to US 52 east - Columbus; Second Street - Riverfront; Downtown	North end of I-71 overlap; was exit 1A before the Fort Washington Way reconstruction[4]
	0.50		1C	Central Avenue (US 22/US 27/US 42/US 52/US 127/SR 3); Fifth Street - Downtown	No southbound entrance; was exit 1E before the Fort Washington Way reconstruction
	0.63		1D	US 50 west (SR 264 west; Sixth Street Expressway) - River Road; Linn Street	Northbound exit and southbound entrance; was exit 1G before the Fort Washington Way reconstruction
	0.71		1E	Seventh Street	No northbound exit; was exit 1F before the Fort Washington Way reconstruction
	1.24		1F	Freeman Avenue to US 50 west	Southbound exit and northbound entrance; was exit 1G before the Fort Washington Way reconstruction
	1.44		1G	Ezzard Charles Drive	There is no northbound exit, but a ramp can be accessed by traffic entering at exits 1B, 1C, and 1E. This was exit 1H before the Fort Washington Way reconstruction.
	1.72		2A	Western Avenue; Liberty Street	Southbound exit and northbound entrance
	2.51	8	2B	Harrison Avenue (Western Hills Viaduct)
	3.50	9	3	US 27 south; US 52 east; US 127 - Hopple Street	South end of US 27/US 52 overlap
	4.23	10	4	I-74 west/US 27 north/US 52 west - Indianapolis, IN	North end of US 27/US 52 overlap; there is also a northbound entrance from US 127 (Central Parkway)
	6.46	11	6	Mitchell Avenue - St. Bernard
	7.81	13	7	SR 562 east to I-71 - Norwood
	8.57	14	8	Towne Street - Elmwood Place	Northbound exit and northbound entrance
	9.45	15	9	SR 4 - Paddock Road to SR 561 - Seymour Avenue
	10.31	(16)	10A	SR 126 - Ronald Reagan Cross County Highway	No southbound exit; no northbound entrance from SR 126 west
Arlington Heights	10.89	17	10B	Galbraith Road to SR 126 - Ronald Reagan Cross County Highway	Signed as exit 10 southbound
Lockland	11.84	(18)	12	Lockland, Reading (Davis Street; Cooper Avenue)	No northbound entrance
Evendale	12.92	(19)	13	Shepherd Lane - Lincoln Heights
	14.26	20	14	Evendale, Woodlawn (Glendale-Milford Road)
Sharonville	15.39	21	15	Sharon Road - Glendale
	16.79	(22)	16	I-275 to I-71 - Columbus; to I-74 - Indianapolis, IN

References

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