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| Columbus Apartment Locator Services : Columbus Apartments |  | Contents | |
| Transportation |
| Columbus is bisected by two major Interstate highways,
Interstate 70 running east-west, and Interstate 71 running north
to roughly southwest. The two Interstates combine downtown for
about 1.5 miles in an area locally known as "The Split",
which is a major traffic congestion point within Columbus, especially
during rush hour. U.S. Highway 40, aka National Road, runs east-west
through Columbus, comprising Main Street to the east of downtown
and Broad Street to the west. It is also widely recognized as
the nation's first highway. U.S. Highway 23 runs roughly north-south,
while U.S. Highway 33 runs northwest-to-southeast. The Interstate
270 Outerbelt encircles the vast majority of Columbus and its
suburbs, while the newly redesigned Innerbelt consists of the
Interstate 670 spur on the north side (which continues to the
east past the airport and to the west where it merges with I-270),
State Route 315 on the west side, the I-70/71 split on the south
side, and I-71 on the east. Due to its central location within
Ohio and abundance of outbound roadways, nearly all of the state's
destinations are within a 2-hour drive of Columbus. |
| The city's street plan--originating in the oldest
parts of the city, that is downtown and the immediate vicinity--is
a roughly gridiron model bisected by High Street (running north-south)
and Broad Street (running east-west). Much of the city street
numbering plan originates at their intersection in mid-downtown
(the Ohio Statehouse building sits at the corner of Broad and
High, incidentally), so house numbers increase with distance
from downtown. This rigid street grid breaks down the further
out one goes, particularly in the suburbs (mostly old towns
with their own street plans still intact) and the newer subdivisions.
Besides High Street and Broad Street, major thoroughfares in
Columbus include Main Street, Morse Road, Dublin-Granville Road
(aka SR-161), Cleveland Avenue/Westerville Road (aka SR-3),
Olentangy River Road, Riverside Drive, Sunbury Road, and Livingston
Avenue. |
| Columbus does not have a metro or other passenger
rail system, but does maintain a widespread municipal bus service
called the Central Ohio Transit Authority (COTA). Columbus used
to have a major train station downtown called Union Station,
however it was razed in the late 1970s. Columbus is now the
second largest city in the U.S. (after Phoenix) without passenger
rail service. Columbus is served by Port Columbus International
Airport, Rickenbacker International Airport, Don Scott Airport
(run by OSU), and Bolton Field Airport. |
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