Talk:U.S. Route 50 in Ohio

Sixth Street Expressway and Columbia Parkway merger

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I would like to propose merging Sixth Street Expressway and Columbia Parkway into this article. Both are entirely part of US 50, so it doesn't make any sense here to have three articles to cover the same stretches of road. The exit list on the expressway should be placed in the junction list for US 50. Detcin (talk) 20:05, 11 February 2013 (UTC)

It makes sense to have them as separate articles as they are distinct and different expressways, that happen to carry US 50. The expressways were built prior to being designated US 50, and would still be Columbia Parkway and Sixth Street Expressway if ODOT/ the USDOT would decide to remove the designation of US 50 from them. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.61.227.114 (talk) 19:01, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

Sixth street Expressway was built as US 50 in 1965. Columbia was also build as US 50. (I looked at old ODOT from old maps.) Both pages are very out of date and info would just be the same as the US 50 in Ohio article. There are many named highway that use the state designation.Detcin (talk) 19:38, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

This article is too heavy on US 50 in the Cincinnati area. The title of the article is "U.S. Route 50 in Ohio". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.178.22.15 (talk) 21:10, 12 April 2014 (UTC)

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too much detail?

It strikes me that there is so much detail in the description of the route in the Greater Cincinnati area that it is as likely to leave readers confused as it is to inform them. Now, it is a complicated route that goes under a number of local names, but the excruciating detail just seems to me to muddy the waters. For example:"The route enters Fairfax and has a bridge over some railroad tracks, followed by a bridge over Red Bank Road. After Red Bank Road the highway passes under a railroad track, before having an interchange with Red Bank Road." I mean, ok, maybe if I sat here and tried to diagram that sentence I could parse it out, but at a glance it is just confusing. I'm also not entirely sure it is even accurate that it passes both under and over the railroad tracks. I'm fairly certain the Parkway passes over the tracks, my memory and Google maps seem to agree on this.

In the next section it claims the route passes under the Miami-to-Erie bike trail somewhere in between Mariemont and Terrace Park. I believe this is also incorrect. The bike trail runs on an old railroad right-of-way in between the river and Route 50 between the Newtown bridge (Newtown road) and Terrace Park. The only crossing is where the trail passes over route 50 on an old railroad bridge just before route 50 crosses the river into Milford proper.

It also seems odd that there is so much overly-detailed description in the this part of the route description, through Milford, then it's like "then it goes to Hillsboro and Chilicothe". That's about a two hour drive but there's virtually no detail. Just seems unbalanced, despite the complexities of the route and it's naming through Greater Cincinnati. Beeblebrox (talk) 00:55, 28 February 2021 (UTC)