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		S E R I E S Spring-Sandusky interchange Map Photographs A E S Q U E ARCHIVES L I N K S AAA Abulafia Boardwalk Bread CHN Christ Lutheran Church Neighborhood Research Institute Old Oaks Olde Towne Polyphony INTP Business First Business First Daily Edition Call and Post Columbus Alive Columbus Dispatch Columbus Free Press Columbus Post Communicator News The Daily Reporter Inner Art The Lantern The Other Paper Suburban News Publications Short North Gazette NBC4 Columbus WSYX 6 10TV WBNS ONN BBC World Service CNN Christian Science Monitor The Guardian IndiaTimes Newsday New York Times StarTribune Washington Post Washington Times AfricaPundit William F. Buckley Jr. Command Post Crooked Timber Daniel W. Drezner John Ellis David Frum Hit & Run Instapundit Mickey Kaus Joshua Micah Marshall The Note OxBlog Virginia Postrel Wes Pruden Jim Romenesko Andrew Sullivan Volokh Conspiracy Day by Day Doonesbury Ted Rall Peter Steiner Tom Toles Tom Tommorow Rob Pegoraro Matt Drudge Cronaca Languagehat Language Log Open Brackets PaleoJudaica Candid Colors Communication Arts Conscientious Ecotone Wiki Smoky Mountain Journal Acme Art Company Ballet Met CCAD Columbus Arts Columbus Arts Festival Columbus Metropolitan Library Columbus Museum of Art Columbus Symphony Dialogue Franklin Park Conservatory Glass Axis Music in the Air Opera Columbus Thurber House Wexner Center City of Bexley City of Columbus Columbus City Council Columbus Police Columbus Public Schools OTENA egroup OTENA-NIC egroup OTENA-tours egroup OTENA-trustees egroup Old Oaks egroup Ohio Parsons Blockwatch egroup				Above is the Spring Street bridge over the Olentangy River. The photograph was taken from what appears to be a never-used boat-ramp onto the river. There is no other public access in the area. The Spring-Sandusky interchange (Map) took nearly 30 years to complete. The intersection of I-670, U.S. 33 and Ohio Rte. 315 at the confluence of the Scioto and Olentangy Rivers on the western edge of downtown Columbus, Ohio, makes for a dizzying array of overpasses, underpasses, ramps, signs and bridges. The flood of 1913 caused the city of Columbus to shun its waterways, and the rivers are now walled off downtown and largely ignored elsewhere. Throughout the sprawling Spring-Sandusky interchange they have been treated as an obstacle to pave over and isolate. Spring St. is U.S. 33 through downtown Columbus, and it is rumored that the remains of Sandusky Street can be seen here and there beneath what is now the interstate-grade Rte. 315. Several railroads crisscross the area, complicating the interchange even further. On the far side of Rte. 315, Spring Street becomes Dublin Road and curves north towards the suburb of Dublin. The abandoned piers above, which stand in the Olentangy River, are at the terminus of what was until several years ago Dublin Ave. This may have continued across the river at one time, until Spring Street was connected to Dublin Road and the old bridge removed. Dublin Avenue is now marked West Nationwide Boulevard, a street that was continued through the old Ohio Penitentiary site into which Dublin Avenue had terminated. The buildings being renovated in this district all use the Nationwide Boulevard name, and the city of Columbus believes it has legally changed the name of Dublin Avenue to Nationwide Boulevard. Franklin County officials, however, dismiss the name change as mere "marketing" and have refused to alter their maps.

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