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I-75 CONSTRUCTION RELATED CLOSINGS

1. Jeep-Willys interchange ramps close Monday. Ramps to/from I-475 closed permanently. Others reopen in new locations in 2016 (northbound I-75 exit) and 2018.2. Polish Village Overpass closes mid-April, to be rebuilt during I-75 widening. Overpass demolition will close I-75 to all traffic for one weekend this spring. New overpass opens in summer 2017. Ramps close for up to 14 days each for reconstruction, to be scheduled.3. Three of four Phillips Avenue interchange ramps close late April or early May, leaving only southbound entrance ramp open. Southbound exit and northbound entrance reopen spring 2016. Northbound exit reopens fall 2016. Southbound entrance closes fall 2016, reopens early 2018.4. Collingwood entrance, Bancroft exit on northbound I-75 close about June 1. Collingwood ramp reopens after 45 days, Bancroft ramp reopens within 75 days.5. Detroit Avenue exit from northbound I-75 closes for one week for temporary pavement construction in early June, then closes for longer period after Bancroft exit reopens. Detroit en-trance to northbound I-75 closes for one year, starting in June. Detroit exit from southbound I-75 closed for about three months in early 2016. Detroit entrance to southbound I-75, already closed, remains closed until mid-2016.6. Monroe/Lawrence entrance and Collingwood exit on south-bound I-75 close mid-August. Monroe/Lawrence ramp reopens after 45 days, Collingwood exit reopens within 75 days.

7. Jeep Parkway closes Monday, entire length between Central and Berdan avenues, for realignment to connect with new Jeep Parkway through center of Willys Industrial Park.8. Willys Parkway closes Monday south of Pioneer Lane. North Cove Boulevard converted to two-way between Pioneer and Central to maintain link between Willys and Central.9. Berdan-Detroit Viaduct reconstruction, widening will require one northbound lane to run on southbound side, separated by barrier wall, from late April/early May until fall 2016. Shifting traffic onto new lanes will require closing I-75 for one weekend in fall 2016.10. Berdan entrance from southbound I-75 closed permanently in spring 2016. Berdan exit from northbound I-75 closed perma-nently in fall 2016.11. Southbound I-75 exit to westbound I-475 closed for two weeks in 2016 so ramp can be connected to new southbound I-75 lanes between Berdan and I-475.12. Eastbound I-475 entrance to southbound I-75 closed for one weekend this summer for traffic-pattern shift associated with downtown I-75 reconstruction project.13. New roundabouts to be built at Jeep-Berdan and Berdan-Haverhill as part of rebuilding all of Haverhill and Berdan between Baltimore and Detroit, starting 2017.14. Southbound I-75 exit and entrance ramps at I-280 to be closed for one weekend each in 2016 for overhead demolition during reconstruction of northbound I-75 bridges over ramps.

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The Jeep-Willysramps toand from I-475 willclose forgood onMonday,with newrampsopening onI-75 in 2016and 2018.

Those ramps have to closebecause they’re so close tobridges slated for rebuildingduring the project that there’sno room for adequate cross-overs or merge lanes, ex-plained Eric Laeng, one ofODOT’s project engineers.

And if that weren’t enough,the ongoing I-75 reconstruc-tion between Dorr Street andI-475 will also have significantnew ramp closings starting inJune, when work on thenorthbound side shifts fromthe roadway’s left lanes to itsright lanes.

Simply put, getting on or offI-75 north of downtown is go-ing to become something of anightmare starting this spring,especially for motorists whodon’t plan their trips or other-wise check to see what’s openand what’s closed.

The new construction willeven require a two-week clos-ing early next year of the verybusy ramp from southboundI-75 to westbound I-475, alongwith two weekend-long shut-downs of all I-75 traffic — onethis year, one next, state offi-cials said.

Kokosing Construction Co.,whose $31.4 million project torebuild I-75 between Dorr andI-475 has caused chronicrush-hour congestion since itsstart last summer, also holdstwo state contracts for the newconstruction: $132.1 millionfor the section between I-75and Lagrange Street, and$62.6 million to rebuild andwiden from Lagrange to I-280.

For drivers, however, I-75will look simply like one longwork zone from Dorr to I-280— at least until the currentconstruction near downtownis wrapped up in mid-2016.

“The traveling public willnot know there’s three sepa-rate projects going on,” MikeLeach, ODOT’s work-zonetraffic manager in BowlingGreen, said Thursday during aplanning meeting with repre-sentatives of Toledo’s fire andpolice departments and divi-sion of transportation.

Two lanes will be main-tained both ways on I-75 be-tween I-475 and I-280 —which is all it has now — withlane closings or the odd shut-down allowed only at nightand on weekends. The laneswill be one foot narrower thannormal, and there will be noshoulders.

But ramp closings will belong-term.

Along with shutting downmost of the Jeep-Willys inter-change for three years, thevarious ramps at Phillips willbe closed for more than a yeareach, and travel through thePolish Village interchange willbe constrained by its bridge’stwo-year absence.

Ramps linking Jeep-Willyswith I-475 will be eliminated,as will the half interchange atBerdan Avenue, whose rampswill close during 2016. Stateofficials said during projectplanning meetings 12 yearsago that modern InterstateSystem design standardsforced them to eliminatethose ramps as part of thisconstruction.

Freeway access from Ber-dan Avenue instead will beprovided by the remodeledJeep-Willys interchange,which will include building anew Jeep Parkway betweenBerdan and an extension ofWillys Parkway into the mid-dle of the former Jeep assem-bly plant site, now under re-development by the Toledo-Lucas County Port Authorityas an industrial park.

The port authority alreadyhas built the south end of thenew Jeep Parkway, including aroundabout at its future inter-section with Willys.

The existing Jeep Parkwaywill close Monday, as willWillys south of Pioneer Lane

and North Cove Boulevardbetween Jeep and Pioneer.

North Cove will be changedfrom one-way to two-way toprovide a temporary connec-tion between Central Avenueand Willys, via Pioneer. Buttoward the project’s end,Willys will be closed perma-nently south of HillcrestAvenue at the request of cityofficials, who said it was usedtoo much as a cut-throughroute between I-75 and Sylva-nia Avenue.

Kyle Reudel, ODOT’s proj-ect engineer for the worknorth of Lagrange Street, saidthe work he’ll oversee will berelatively simple.

Starting in mid-April, I-75

traffic will be squeezed ontothe left shoulders in narrowlanes so a new right lane andright shoulder can be built onthe outside. Once that is done,traffic will be moved to thenew pavement and the insidelanes will be rebuilt.

The I-75/I-280 junction,meanwhile, will be modifiedwith a new alignment forsouthbound I-75 parallel tothe existing northbound lanes,while the existing southboundlanes will be remodeled tohandle I-280 interchange traf-fic only.

That change’s main benefi-ciaries will be drivers enteringsouthbound I-75 from north-bound I-280, who now must

merge into I-75’s left lane aftera sharp curve.

Construction should endbetween Lagrange and I-280during the summer of 2017,Mr. Reudel said, although thethird lane in each directionmay not open until the worksouth of Lagrange is finished.

Demolishing the Polish Vil-lage Overpass will require de-touring I-75 for one weekendthis spring, he said. The otherI-75 shutdown will occur dur-ing fall, 2016, when a phasechange occurs at the Detroit-Berdan Viaduct.

South of I-475, reconstruc-tion work is on target fornorthbound traffic to shiftfrom the right lanes to leftlanes around June 1 and forsouthbound traffic to makethe same shift in mid-August,officials said. Ramps betweenCollingwood Boulevard andBancroft Street will close im-mediately after those shifts,then reopen as work pro-gresses.

At the Detroit Avenue inter-change, however, the north-bound entrance ramp willclose for a year, ending inJune, 2016.

That means that, during theperiod the Collingwood en-trance also is closed, there willbe no surface-street entranceramps open onto northboundI-75 between 14th Street, neardowntown, and Stickney-La-grange. The only other way inwill be from eastbound I-475,with its closest local entranceat ProMedica Parkway.

The Detroit entrance tosouthbound I-75 already isclosed, and will stay that wayalso until June, 2016. Thesouthbound exit there will berebuilt between March andJune, 2016. The northboundDetroit exit will be rebuilt afterthe Bancroft exit reopens nextfall, although both exits will beclosed for about one week af-ter the mainline traffic shifts.

The one bright side of allthe ramp closings is that itshould ease work-zone con-gestion, said Dennis Charvat,ODOT’s district constructionadministrator. The I-75 speedlimit will be reduced to 50mph through the zone.

“Not having ramps, thathelps mainline traffic keepmoving because you’re reduc-ing converging points,” Mr.Charvat said.

Officials plan to urge motor-ists to avoid the I-75 workzone by using I-280 and StateRt. 795 as an alternative route.

I-475 won’t be quite as use-ful, because it has its own con-struction already under way— the rebuilding and widen-ing of four bridges from theOhio Turnpike to Angola Roadand the realignment of south-bound U.S. 23 at the I-475/U.S. 23 split in Sylvania Town-ship — and another projectscheduled to start in June: re-construction of the CentralAvenue interchange.

The Anthony WayneBridge’s ongoing overhaul,meanwhile, limits alternativesto the DiSalle Bridge over theMaumee River, across whichnorthbound I-75 traffic oftenbacks up during rush hoursbecause of the work north ofDorr Street.

Contact David Patch at:dpatch@theblade.com

or 419-724-6094.

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for UT and BGSU.

Grammy and Dove Award-winning songwriter and performer Chris Tomlin comes to the Huntington

Center.

An interfaith breakfast is held in Bowling Green as part of a

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HarrisonFord hurtin planecrashActor flies craftonto golf course

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Harrison Ford was flying aWW II vintage plane. Here,he is at the premiere of ‘TheExpendables 3’ in 2014.

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LOS ANGELES — HarrisonFord crash-landed his smallvintage airplane at a Los Ange-les golf course Thursday,shortly after taking off from anearby airport and reportingengine problems.

People on the groundrushed to his aid, and he wastaken by ambulance to a hos-pital with moderate injuries.

The single-engine planewent down at about 2:30 p.m.in Los Angeles’ Venice area.

Fire and police officialswould not confirm the pilot’sidentity; however, an officialfamiliar with the crash said itwas Mr. Ford. The officialspoke on condition of ano-nymity because of privacy re-strictions.

The 72-year-old Star Warsand Indiana Jones actor is anaviation enthusiast who oftenflies out of the Santa MonicaAirport. Penmar Golf Course,where the crash happened, isjust west of a runway there.

In a communication withSanta Monica’s air traffic con-trol tower at 2:21 p.m., the pilotcites engine failure and says heis making an “immediate re-turn,” according to a recordingposted by the websiteLiveATC.net.

Shortly after, witnesses re-ported seeing the aircraftplunge to the ground.

The plane appeared to be aWorld War II-era vintage train-ing plane. It was mostly intactafter the wreck. Mr. Ford wasthe only person aboard.

LawsuitContinued from Page A1

Press. Based in Arlington,Va., the committee works toprotect journalists’ freespeech rights as well as ac-cess to public records, meet-ings, and courtrooms.

The remainder of the set-tlement will be shared by theBlade staff members de-tained, and will not be usedto pay the newspaper’s legalfees.

The First Amendment Pri-vacy Protection Act allowsthose who sue under it to re-cover a minimum of $1,000per violation or actual mone-tary losses.

Mr. Byers said that even inthe context of military policeofficers acting to protect thesafety of a military facility,“The government may not dowhat it did in this case.”

Mr. Linkhorn and Ms.Fraser were in Lima to covera news conference at a FordMotor Co. plant and hadgone to take photos of areabusinesses for future use, in-cluding pictures of the tankplant known as the JointSystems Manufacturing

Center.Ms. Fraser took several

photos from the entry area ofthe plant, and the pair wereleaving when they werestopped by three military po-lice officers and questioned.

Ms. Fraser showed the offi-cers her Blade identification,but initially declined to pro-vide her driver’s license. Shewas not driving, and was re-moved from her vehicle andhandcuffed for more than anhour.

During the confrontation,the officers repeatedly re-ferred to Ms. Fraser in themasculine gender. She ob-jected and was told by oneofficer, “You say you are a fe-male. I’m going to go underyour bra.”

The officers confiscatedtwo cameras, memory cards,a pocket-sized personal cal-endar, and a notebook.

Ms. Fraser declined tocomment on the terms of thesettlement, which includesthe stipulation that The Bladeagrees “not to publish, dis-tribute, reproduce, sell, orshare any of the photographstaken of the Joint SystemsManufacturing Center inLima, Ohio, on March 28,2014.”

Mr. Linkhorn said he be-lieved the settlement “showsArmy officials recognizedthey should not have de-stroyed our photographs, es-pecially those which hadnothing to do with the tankplant. I'm pleased The Bladeis donating a portion of thesettlement to protect a freepress.”

“While it bothers me thatthe government believesphotographing somethinganyone can easily see fromthe street should be prohib-ited, I have a great respect forthose serving in our militaryand the sacrif ices theymake,” he added.

Mike Tobin, spokesman forthe U.S. Attorneys Office,which represented the defen-dants in the case, declined tocomment, saying a letter sentby the U.S. Army to Ms.Fraser, Mr. Linkhorn, andKurt Franck, executive editorand vice president of TheBlade, speaks for itself.

The letter, dated Feb. 25and signed by Col. Ronald J.Shun, chief of staff for theU.S. Army Tank-Automotiveand Armaments Command,does not contain an apology,but states that the Army“takes seriously its obligation

to protect its military installa-tions” and “acknowledgesthe important role that thepress serves in a free society.”

“The Army is interested ina positive relationship withThe Blade, its employees,and all members of the me-dia,” Colonel Shun wrote.

“In accordance with itspolicies and procedures, theArmy will respond to pressrequests to visit or take pho-tographs at JSMC, and theArmy will make every effortto answer appropriate ques-tions about its operationsthere.”

In another First Amend-ment case involving a Bladephotographer, the NationalTransportation Safety Boardin 1997 apologized to thenewspaper and photogra-pher Herral Long for seizingfilm from his camera at thescene of a plane crash atMonroe’s Custer Airport.

As part of a settlement withthe newspaper, the NTSBand the state of Michiganpaid The Blade and Mr. Longa total of $26,000 for violatinghis constitutional rights.

Contact Jennifer Feehan at:jfeehan@theblade.com

or 419-213-2134.

Dominolikekidney swap tohelp 6 patientsin CaliforniaASSOCIATED PRESS

SAN FRANCISCO — ZullyBroussard thought she was go-ing to help one person by do-nating a kidney.

Instead, she helped six.The Sacramento woman’s

donation to a Benicia man setoff an organ swap that resultedin five more sick people gettingnew kidneys at a San Franciscohospital. Three transplantswere planned for Thursday,and the remaining three today.

“I thought I was going tohelp this one person who Idon’t know, but the fact that somany people can have a lifeextension, that’s pretty big,”Ms. Broussard said.

Dominolike kidney swapsare new but increasingly com-mon. Transplant chains are anoption when donors are in-compatible with relatives orfriends who need kidneys. Analgorithmic program finds po-tential matches using a per-son’s genetic profile.