Mill Creek Expressway

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Mill Creek Expressway

Maintained by Ohio DOT

Length:

17.47 mi^[1] (28.12 km)

South end:

Brent Spence Bridge

North end:

Butler County

Ohio highways
Interstates - U.S. Routes - State Routes

The Mill Creek Expressway or Millcreek Expressway is a freeway in Cincinnati and neighboring Hamilton County, Ohio, United States. It carries Interstate 75 through the Mill Creek valley, from the Brent Spence Bridge north to the Butler County line just north of Interstate 275.

1 Description
2 History
3 Exit list
4 References

[edit] Description

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[edit] History

The Mill Creek Expressway generally follows the old Miami and Erie Canal, which extended from Cincinnati to Toledo via Dayton, itself built in the Mill Creek valley near Cincinnati. The canal extended from the Ohio River along the present locations of Eggleston Avenue and Central Parkway to Mt. Storm Park, and continued north, remaining close to the Mill Creek Expressway to Butler County. The never-opened Cincinnati Subway was built in the 1920s, mostly using the abandoned canal right-of-way from downtown to the State Route 562 interchange at St. Bernard.

The first portion of the expressway was built in 1941 - during World War II - to serve the Wright Aeronautical plant in Lockland. It was initially planned to run from Paddock Road (State Route 4) in Carthage north to Cincinnati-Dayton Road (then U.S. Route 25) near Maud,^[2] but was only built - almost completely along the old canal - between Galbraith Road and Glendale-Milford Road (then State Route 126.^{[citation needed]} A short extension was built south to Towne Street in Elmwood Place in the late 1940s.^{[citation needed]}