User:Chaswmsday/U.S. Route 127 in Ohio

U.S. Route 127 (US 127) in Ohio runs in a south-north direction for 194 mi from the Kentucky state line in Cincinnati to the Michigan state line northwest of Fayette, in Gorham Township, Fulton County.

The highway serves a number of cities, smaller communities and rural areas in western Ohio, traveling through all nine counties bordering Indiana, and a small corner of a tenth county (Fulton) not bordering Indiana. Additionally, of the nine counties bordering Indiana, US 127 either passes through or skirts the edge of eight of the county seats, the expception being Defiance County's seat, Defiance.

Route description
US 35 enters Ohio from the west in concurrency with Interstate 70, departing at that route's Exit 1 just across the state line.The road angles southeasterly into Eaton, then runs due east-west to Drexel, at which point it becomes a limited access expressway. It continues as a freeway through the east side of Dayton, except a small portion east of Dayton, also bypassing Xenia to the south, Jamestown to the north, and Washington Court House to the south. It then bypasses Chillicothe to the north and east, partially in concurrency with US 23, then angles southeasterly again, with the freeway portion ending at Richmond Dale. From there southeasterly and easterly to Gallipolis, it is a divided highway with a mix of interchanges and at-grade intersections.

US 127 enters Ohio from the south in a concurrency with US 42. Cincinnati, New Miami, Seven Mile, Somerville, Eaton, Greenville, Celina, Van Wert, Paulding and Bryan. In Cincinnati, it shares a short concurrency with its parent route, US 27, along with US 42. From there, it heads north through Fairfield and Hamilton. The highway is a four-lane, divided bypass around Greenville. US 127 crosses the Ohio Turnpike near West Unity, but does not intersect with it. It also joins with US 36 for about 5 mi. The first city US 127 enters after leaving Kentucky is Cincinnati. The last city that US 127 goes through before reaching Michigan is Bryan.

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Ohio State Route 2, Ohio State Route 122 (directional alternate)

NB: CWB (US 42 leaves the concurrency on 2nd Street, or 3rd to Elm by Destape) to east on 3rd Street, north on Central Avenue, east on Ezzard Charles Drive, north on Central Parkway,

History
When it was commissioned on November 11, 1926, US 127 had its northern terminus in Michigan and its southern terminus in Toledo. In 1930, the stretch of US 127 south from Somerset Township, Michigan was rerouted to enter Ohio in Fulton County and extended to have its southern terminus in Cincinnati. The former routing of US 127 from Somerset Township, Michigan to Toledo was then renumbered US 223.

Future
From 2011 to 2015, there were 45 vehicle wrecks, and from 2011 to 2016, three fatalities at the intersection of US 127 and Kruckeberg Road in Greenville Township, Darke County, along Greenville's bypass. After public calls for intersection improvements, the Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) offered six alternatives at a public meeting on January 24, 2017. On June 15, 2017, ODOT announced that the intersection would be converted to a "partial" restricted crossing U-turn (RCUT), at a cost of just over $748,000, with construction slated to begin in summer 2019. (ODOT materials contrast the term "partial" RCUT with the term "RCUT", even though the illustrations of the "partial" RCUT look identical to the configuration otherwise described as an RCUT. It would appear that what ODOT is terming an "RCUT" is a configuration the Federal Highway Administration has called a "basic RCUT", which prohibits left turns from the major road, restricting movements to right-in/right-outs and median U-turns only.)

Major intersections

 * Ohio
 * in Cincinnati. The highways enter concurrently in Cincinnati.
 * in Cincinnati. The highways travel concurrently through Cincinnati.
 * in Cincinnati
 * in Cincinnati
 * in Cincinnati
 * in Cincinnati
 * in Cincinnati
 * on the Pleasant Run–Mount Healthy Heights–Forest Park line.
 * in Eaton
 * exit 10 Eaton, OH (4 miles south)
 * west of Lewisburg
 * west-northwest of Jaysville. The highways travel concurrently to Greenville.
 * southeast of Rockford
 * in Van Wert. US 127/US 224 travels concurrently to north-northeast of Van Wert.
 * east of Cecil
 * south of Bryan
 * in West Unity
 * north of West Unity, but does not intersect, compare Interstate 271
 * east of Alvordton. The highways travel concurrently to west of Fayette.
 * east of Alvordton. The highways travel concurrently to west of Fayette.