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Ohio’s traffic laws made a pivotal change this year, and some new legislation could call for more change in the new year. In January, Gov. Mike DeWine signed a new distracted driving law, which ...
County roads in Ohio comprise 29,088 center line miles (46,813 km), making up 24% of the state's public roadways as of April 2015. [2] Ohio state law delegates the maintenance and designation of these county roads to the boards of commissioners and highway departments of its 88 counties . [ 3 ]
On June 29, 1956, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956 into law, designating highways for each state to build with federal assistance to create the modern interstate highway system. One year later, in 1957, Ohio's Department of Highways officially began construction on the 1,500 miles (2,400 km) of the ...
The Ohio State Highway Patrol was founded in 1933 under the command of Colonel Lynn Black. Originally, the Highway Patrol used solid black cars with the Flying Wheel on the door. In 1966, white cruisers made their appearance on the Ohio Turnpike. By 1972 all Ohio State Highway Patrol cruisers were white, which they remained until 1982 when they ...
(The Center Square) – After nearly a year in the Ohio Legislature, a bill limiting driver’s license suspension to driving violations is only a signature from Gov. Mike DeWine away from ...
A 1965 law strengthened the MUTCD's legal authority by prohibiting the sale, purchase, or manufacture of noncompliant signs and signals. [4] Further editions were published in 2003, 2005, and 2012 under a shortened title, Ohio Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices. The 2012 edition conforms to the 2009 MUTCD. [3]
Ohio's snarky freeway signs are challenged by new federal rules, but some jokes are still fair game. Here's how ODOT is navigating new rules. Feds tell ODOT to curb cultural references on signs.
On May 19, 1953, Amended House Bill 243 created the Ohio Department of Highway Safety, consisting of the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles and Ohio State Highway Patrol, effective October 2, 1953. [2] On September 24, 1992, the department was renamed the Ohio Department of Public Safety.