Ohio’s roads and bridges are in bad shape, and that could mean a cash bonanza: The Wake
CLEVELAND, Ohio — Ohio’s bridges, roads and other infrastructure are earning poor grades, but that could mean an infusion of cash for the state to bring them back up to shape.
The federal government gave Ohio a C-minus for its 1,377 bridges and more than 4,925 miles of highways, rating them in “poor condition.” President Joe Biden’s “American Jobs Plan” would spend $600 billion on transportation infrastructure. That means the plan, if approved, might send a lot of money to Ohio for upgrades. In Cleveland, lawyers are clashing over an affidavit from the former director of the fertility lab at University Hospitals. And the city has applied for $6.5 million from the state to design a “land bridge” downtown from Mall C to the North Coast Harbor on the waterfront.
Hear cleveland.com editor Chris Quinn discuss these stories and more in The Wake Up podcast.
The podcast is a summary of cleveland.com’s morning newsletter The Wake Up. You can receive The Wake Up through email at 5:30 a.m. each weekday by subscribing here.
You can get our podcasts delivered directly to your phone, and we have an Apple podcasts channel exclusively for this podcast. Subscribe here.
Do you get your podcasts on Spotify? Find us here.
If you use Stitcher, we are here.
RadioPublic is another popular podcast vehicle, and we are here.
On Google Podcasts, we are here.
On PodParadise, find us here.
Read More: Ohio’s roads and bridges are in bad shape, and that could mean a cash bonanza: The Wake