Category Archives: Transportation

I can’t get there from here …

Posted on 06/26/2010 | Leave a comment

central Ohio road construction in Delaware CountyIt’s summer … time for road construction. Getting to my Powell office is becoming more of a challenge. There are three projects underway that impact Home Rd and Liberty Rd.

  1. Liberty Rd is closed just south of Hawthorn Bl (Stratford Woods subdivision). It will be closed for about a month as a new culvert is put in.
  2. The Liberty Rd north & south junctions at Home Rd are being joined where the eastern section of Liberty joins Home Rd. This will be a great improvement as a stoplight is to also be installed. Depending on the time of day, it was becoming increasingly difficult to turn onto Home Rd from Liberty Rd
  3. Home Rd is to have an overpass built over the RR tracks. Last that I read on this project is that a temporary side road is to be built for use while the overpass is built. I suspect that project – and mess – will be with us for awhile.

Planning to use Rt 23 south of Delaware? A project to join Winter Rd with Peachblow Rd is slowing traffic somewhat in that area. Probably when its done YET ANOTHER STOPLIGHT will be installed on Rt 23. The number of stoplights that have been installed between the Rt 315/Rt 23 junction to the Powell Rd/Rt 23 intersection in the past ten years has been unbelievable!!!!

One positive bit of construction is that a Dairy Queen is being built at the new Kroger shopping center at the corner of Rt 23 and Lewis Center Rd. Now THAT’S construction I can enjoy! Nothing like sipping a cold malted while stopped at one of the friggin’ stop lights on Rt 23.

→ Leave a comment

Posted in Central Ohio, Delaware County, Powell Ohio, Transportation

Tagged ,

The big trucks are coming back

Posted on 06/21/2010 | Leave a comment

Dump truckLast fall I noted that I was seeing fewer monster dump trucks on southern Delaware County roads because the real estate market was down, and builders were cutting their inventories.

This morning I noticed they’re BA-A-A-ACK! Between my home and Powell, I noticed at least six, rumbling along with all axles down. I don’t know whether they were headed for new housing developments or for one of the various road construction projects.

Regardless of their destination, they are a good sign of construction workers being employed … even though they are scary on the roadways.

→ Leave a comment

Posted in Delaware County, Powell Ohio, Transportation

Tagged ,

OK, everyone in Columbus, put your thumbs down

Posted on 04/06/2010 | Leave a comment

Blackberry Curve keyboardColumbus City Council just voted to ban texting, as have a number of cities. I don’t disagree with the intent but I’m never quite sure how you legislate against stupidity. Just as dangerous are all the other things we do in our cars beside paying attention to driving. Have you ever turned toward the back seat to yell at the kids? Ever spilled your “special sauce” in your lap and tried to mop it up?

Back to the texting issue, I have some questions that I’ve not heard answered by the media yet. I understand the texting issue, but we do lots of things with this keyboard that don’t constitute “texting”.

  • Is it OK to dial a phone number?
  • Will the new law include when we’re sitting at a stop light or in a traffic jam and want to check our email? Do the wheels have to be rolling for it to apply? After all, it’s “texting while DRIVING”.
  • What about taking a photo?
  • How will the police know the difference when we’re pushing the keys for making a call vs texting?
  • Will this cause people to hold the phone below the window line and thus, really take their eyes off the road?

I don’t text while driving, and I wait till I’m at a stop light to place a call, so I don’t think I’ll impacted by the law. I also don’t drive that much within the actual Columbus city limits since much of my driving is in Delaware County or the Franklin County suburbs. Now, if they ever decide to totally ban cell phone use then that’s another matter.

Copyright © 2010. Elaine Reese, Real Living HER. Reproduction of any portion of this blog post or the images is prohibited by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. If this post is being viewed on any site other than www.ReesesPiecesOfRealEstate.com then the material has been stolen without permission. Violators will be reported.

→ Leave a comment

Posted in Central Ohio, Columbus Ohio, Franklin County, Technology, Transportation

Tagged ,

Did we have fun today?

Posted on 02/15/2010 | 2 Comments

So far February 2010 STINKS!
Sunbury Rd over Hoover Reservoir, Galena OH 43021

Realtors® are like postal workers. Neither snow, nor sleet, nor dark of night …

Big Walnut Rd, Galena OH 43021

I read on Twitter that an Amber Alert has been issued for Al Gore.

Near Alum Creek, Lewis Center, OH 43035

I am so-o-o over this friggin’ snow! How about you?

 

→ 2 Comments

Posted in Central Ohio, Delaware County, Galena Ohio, Lewis Center Ohio, Realtors®, Transportation

Tagged

I’m a Listing Agent … I’m prepared!

Posted on 02/14/2010 | Leave a comment

There are two kinds of Realtors® … agents who work mainly with home buyers … and agents who primarily work with sellers. Generally, over time, an agent will gravitate to a preference to work with one or the other type of client based on their skills or personality. However, there may be an additional difference … their cars.

Buyers’ Agents usually have nice, clean cars – or they should. The successful ones drive the luxury versions for a smooth ride for the clients when they view 10-15 homes at one time.

Listing agent's carListing Agents may drive vehicles that can easily hold yard and open house signs AND those signs can be thrown in quickly when it’s raining or really, really cold. They also may carry a bunch of odds ‘n’ ends supplies required to handle most any emergency that arises on the listing.

Listing agent's carThe WEENR-mobile is perfect as a “listing” vehicle. The 4WD gets me through most any kind of road. The back is easy to throw in yard or open house signs. In a pinch, I can fold the back seat down when I need to haul larger items.

At this time of year, the one thing it isn’t, is a CLEAN car. But, like a boy scout, I’m prepared for just about anything!

→ Leave a comment

Posted in Central Ohio, Elaine's Listings, Homes, Real Living HER, Realtor® selection, Realtors®, Sellers, Transportation

Tagged ,

Fewer new homes being built equals fewer monster trucks

Posted on 09/21/2009 | Leave a comment

In almost everything, there is some good and some bad. I try to find the “good” in what otherwise seems like a bad or at least, a not-so-good situation. Last Saturday, while driving around to take photos for my new photo blog (OlentangyLiving.com), it occurred to me that I was no longer sharing the side roads with the behemoth dump trucks.

Dump truckIf you have lived in southern Delaware County the past nine years, you know how prevalent these fully loaded – all axles down – trucks were. Speeding down the narrow back roads, to maximize the number of deliveries they could make per day to the local builders’ developments, they put other vehicles in peril that were near or in front of them.

However, with builders pruning their inventories in 2009, they’ve reduced the need for the loads of gravel or yards of concrete mix. So the number of encounters with these monster trucks has greatly lessened.

I’m torn between feeling sorry for the truckers, who likely have substantially reduced incomes, and yet relieved that I no longer have to worry about them crossing the center line, or being unable to stop quick enough for the traffic ahead.

Copyright © 2009. Elaine Reese, Real Living HER. Reproduction of any portion of this blog post or the images is prohibited by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. If this post is being viewed on any site other than www.ReesesPiecesOfRealEstate.com then the material has been stolen without permission. Violators will be reported.

→ Leave a comment

Posted in Central Ohio, Delaware County, Homes, Homes for sale, New home builders, Transportation