With the ongoing construction occurring on 75 and occasional wreck/disabled vehicle here and there on 75, it's becoming a HUGE nightmare ...

 

So, I'm asking the experts (you guys ;) ... what is the absolute easiest and quickest way to get from the CBD to Sharonville area (275+75 intersection), AVOIDING 75 northbound Interstate?

 

I've tried multiple routes, some have taken an hour-hour and a half.

 

Thanks!

People drive so slow on the 275 east loop. It's like they're mellow Cincinnatians instead of hurried Columbusites or something.

With the ongoing construction occurring on 75 and occasional wreck/disabled vehicle here and there on 75, it's becoming a HUGE nightmare ...

 

So, I'm asking the experts (you guys ;) ... what is the absolute easiest and quickest way to get from the CBD to Sharonville area (275+75 intersection), AVOIDING 75 northbound Interstate?

 

I've tried multiple routes, some have taken an hour-hour and a half.

 

Thanks!

 

Have you tried Reading Rd the whole way?

 

The 23X has multiple stops on Chester Rd.  Depends where you work I suppose.  Lists its time as 30 minutes to downtown.  It's obviously going to be the same speed or slower as driving, but at least you can read/text/nap. 

I-275 is way too far out of the way. Either take Reading Road and deal with stop-and-go, or I-75 and deal with slowness. Unfortunately.

^ ^^ ^^^ ... Tried Reading all the way. I can drive to Columbus quicker than Reading Rd all the way to 275.

 

There has to be something better?

Yeah, I was just going to suggest Reading too.  Or at the least take Reading to Paddock to 75.

Spring Grove -> Vine -> Springfield Pike -> Princeton Pike OR Reading -> Paddock -> Springfield Pike -> Princeton Pike

This is why we need light rail.  West Chester to downtown through sharonville, evendale, etc. and Mason to downtown through Kenwood. 

http://www.terrafugia.com/

I-74 west out of downtown, then east on I-275 to Sharonville.  There is no traffic in the mornings until you get east of Colerain.

Spring Grove -> Vine -> Springfield Pike -> Princeton Pike OR Reading -> Paddock -> Springfield Pike -> Princeton Pike

 

Don't forget Anthony Wayne, the secret road with only one light for three miles. 

I had to make that trip during rush and non-rush a lot from Northside. I found I-75 to be either a 20 minute or a 1 hour hell ride to West Chester. I started taking I-74 > I-275 during rush and clocked in at 35 minutes on most days. I could usually go 70-80 MPH on I-74 and I-275.

Ugh that is a stressful drive up I-75.  I wonder if people think to themselves, while pumping the brakes, trying to move over a lane, and then sitting idle, that it would be a great idea if there was light rail running through the corridor to drop me off downtown? 

 

People who drive that everyday must have a constant stream of cortisol and epinephrine flowing through their bodies.

Ugh that is a stressful drive up I-75.  I wonder if people think to themselves, while pumping the brakes, trying to move over a lane, and then sitting idle, that it would be a great idea if there was light rail running through the corridor to drop me off downtown? 

 

People who drive that everyday must have a constant stream of cortisol and epinephrine flowing through their bodies.

 

It's not so much any one drive, but the realization you'll be doing it everyday, twice a day for the next twenty, thirty, forty years....

 

Gotta be a better way!  Can't believe that's not obvious to everyone.

Take 71 to the lateral and cut over to 75. 

Ugh that is a stressful drive up I-75.  I wonder if people think to themselves, while pumping the brakes, trying to move over a lane, and then sitting idle, that it would be a great idea if there was light rail running through the corridor to drop me off downtown? 

 

People who drive that everyday must have a constant stream of cortisol and epinephrine flowing through their bodies.

 

It's not so much any one drive, but the realization you'll be doing it everyday, twice a day for the next twenty, thirty, forty years....

 

Gotta be a better way!  Can't believe that's not obvious to everyone.

 

I've found that most suburbanite who work downtown tend to think it'd be great to have light rail. For some reason, they all seem to think the government is poor and could never afford it, yet don't blink an eye when they spend $3 billion on changes to I-75.

75 billboards would be a great place for OKI or Metro or someone else to advertise for regional rail.

Were abouts in Sharonville?

 

an outside the box route would be up I-71 to Cross County to Plainfield/Reed Hartman (not sure how that does during rush hour); then Old Plainfield (past UC Blue Ash) to either Creek Road or Glendale-Milford/Reading over to Sharonville

Were abouts in Sharonville?

 

an outside the box route would be up I-71 to Cross County to Plainfield/Reed Hartman (not sure how that does during rush hour); then Old Plainfield (past UC Blue Ash) to either Creek Road or Glendale-Milford/Reading over to Sharonville

 

If you're going up Plainfield, it is almost always faster to get off at Stewart Road and cut up Plainfield through Deer Park.  Not a bad idea, though. 

Were abouts in Sharonville?

 

an outside the box route would be up I-71 to Cross County to Plainfield/Reed Hartman (not sure how that does during rush hour); then Old Plainfield (past UC Blue Ash) to either Creek Road or Glendale-Milford/Reading over to Sharonville

 

Pretty much near 275/75...

 

Don't you think cutting across cross-county hwy is out of the way, meaning that when you hop on from 71 and get on cross-county, it takes you pretty far south?

75 billboards would be a great place for OKI or Metro or someone else to advertise for regional rail.

 

Yeah, I've always thought about this too! A video billboard would be awesome!

I had to make that trip during rush and non-rush a lot from Northside. I found I-75 to be either a 20 minute or a 1 hour hell ride to West Chester. I started taking I-74 > I-275 during rush and clocked in at 35 minutes on most days. I could usually go 70-80 MPH on I-74 and I-275.

 

This is interesting ... I'm going to try this!

I do the drive from Downtown to the Sharon Road exit on 75 at rush hour once a week, every week.  My preferred route is 71 to the Norwood Lateral.  71 traffic usually backs up at around Smith/Edwards or Dana, so you only have to deal with that for about a mile or so (stay in the right lane- it moves much faster because everyone's trying to get over to the left 2 lanes to stay on 71).  The Lateral almost never has traffic.  From there, 75 N to Sharon.  Once you get past Paddock, 75 usually opens up pretty well.  Also, you can speed through the lanes on the far right near GE, which helps get around the back up that the Glendale Milford entrance sometimes causes.  It's not perfect, and sometimes I have to sit in hellish traffic, but I've found it's better than anything else I've tried.  For that distance, any surface street is unlikely to be faster simply because of the amounts of lights.  In freeway traffic you're at least usually moving- at a light you're completely stopped.  Hope this helps.