Why are there so many ramp closures?

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Why are there so many ramp closures?
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It's going to be a summer of dodging orange cones and taking detours.This week, the Ohio Department of Transportation closed the Ridge Road exit ramp along I-480 west. The third ramp to close on I-480 after ODOT closed the ramps from I-480 East to I-77 North and I-480 West to I-77 South in April.It's leaving GrubHub delivery driver Jane Oakes dizzy from driving in circles.'You have to go and turn around at the next one if you're coming from the east,' she said.

2 trillion Federal Infrastructure and Jobs Act is what's fueling and resurging interest in infrastructure improvements.'A lot of those bridges were built with the interstate era,' Craig Haberbrand, The American Society of Civil Engineers' Region Three Director, said. 'So, a lot of those bridges were built in the '60s, '70s, and into the '80s. There was a lot of investment in infrastructure. As infrastructure ages, reinvestment is required.

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