Bypass 4 widening
Bypass 4 widening
The TID’s initial "infrastructure improvement plan" included improvements to the State Route 4 Bypass. The widening project lies within three main entities: City of Fairfield, City of Hamilton and Fairfield Township. These entities, along with Butler County and ODOT, were crucial in moving this project to implementation.
In early 2006, the TID received a safety grant for the Symmes Road intersection. That grant was important as it helped reduce the local funding component.
In late 2007, the City of Fairfield took responsibility for the southern-most phase of the project.
In 2008, the project was redesigned. The design of the ByPass intersections at Hamilton Mason Road, Tylersville and Symmes Road were changed to the "Superstreet" alternative. In 2009, the TID was successful in two applications for federal stimulus money related to the project. Phase 2 (Symmes Road) and Phase 3 (Tylersville Road) sections were advanced three years and the City of Hamilton, Fairfield Township and Butler County agreed to assist the TID in issuing $7.2 million in Recovery Zone Economic Development Bonds for the local share component of the project.
The construction took two years with the improvements from the City of Fairfield terminus to the bridge over State Route 129 being completed by the fall of 2012. After the project was completed, the travel time from end to end of the State Route 4 Bypass was reduced significantly.
