I-70 Indiana and Western Ohio
Miserable, miserable, miserable. Mile after mile of trucks beating up the road. Even the freshly paved sections are lumpy. They didn't bother to do anything with the bridges (repaving adds too much...
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cross21114 wrote:
How specifically could I avoid I-70 west from Columbus to Indianapolis? We then take I-74 but I think that road is in pretty good shape.
Thanks for your help.
US 40 pretty much parallels I-70 through Ohio and Indiana. The speed limit is 55 - 60 and the road conditions vary. There are towns to go through where the speed drops to 35-45 and there are stop lights. The interesting thing I discovered is that when the road gets rough, you can slow down. This is not the best policy on interstates.
As I said, we ran US routes about 75% of the time on this trip and for the most part the roads were in better shape than the interstates we ran.
