Referred to as “mill-and-fill” project, it will remove the top layer of existing asphalt using a milling machine and replace it with a new layer of asphalt, Bryson said.
“It’ll go down around two inches and then they mill that off and they come back in and pave it with nice, shiny, new pavement,” she said. “Ideally, it’ll start and finish this year.”
Official daily traffic counts for the roadway show it becoming increasingly busy, going from 21,550 vehicles in 2014 to 25,925 vehicles daily in 2022.
Moraine City Council last Thursday approved a resolution authorizing ODOT to undertake the project, which Bryson said should launch construction as a much larger I-75 project is wrapping up.
That work, which is taking place south of downtown, is a mix of reconstruction and simpler repaving of 4.3 miles of highway mainly between exits 47 and 50 in the Moraine area. It’s a $47.3 million project that launched in summer 2022 and is on track to finish this summer.
The project is part of a yearslong, $103 million effort by ODOT to reconstruct and rehabilitate sections of I-75 just north and south of downtown Dayton.
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