I was in Carroll today and lo and behold they have started utility work on the Carroll interchange. Work is scheduled to be completed in 2017 and when it is, there won't be that light by the McDonald's that backs traffic up big time during rush hour. That ought to make the commute from Columbus for Wednesday night basketball games that much easier for many of you.

When this is completed will likely be the happiest day in my life.............

Used to drive from Columbus for many years. Now, I don't hit 33 until Lancaster, coming from Newark. Would love to see the state get rid of the traffic light on 33 at Sugar Grove, between Lancaster and Logan. Always asking myself, is it necessary?

I always thought that traffic light at sugar grove was a big Eff You from Lancaster because it went in right after the bypass was completed.

Thanks for sharing. That will knock another 5 minutes off the drive, moving it ever closer to an even hour from point to point.

To be able to make it total freeway, there are a number of intersections that will need addressed in between the two bypasses, and near Athens.

That's why god created roundabouts.

That is awesome. I had heard/read that it was future plans, but nothing like 2017. I thought it to be future with no date scheduled.

It will be the third happiest day of my life behind the Lancaster bypass opening and the Nelsonville bypass opening.

ODOT District 10 is obsessed with them, so you never know. They put the one on (now) old 33 in Nelsonville literally because they had money left over and they could, and the 33/664 exit in Logan is now a double roundabout. And of course 682/Richland was the first one.

Clearly I say this in jest, but they definitely love to use them now.

Rt.33 has always been a huge topic for me. I well remember when Rt. 33 from Lancaster to Columbus was completed as a 4-lane divided highway all the way up to I-70. This was in the late 60's or so. At the time we all said that you could now drive non-stop from Lancaster to Denver, or maybe even the West Coast.

Then the village of Carroll complained about access to the highway and got the first traffic light put up in the early 70's. At that time, our State Representative promised every one who expressed their concerns about compromising the new non-stop highway that the light was just a "temporary" solution.

Then with Carroll getting their own personal traffic light, soon everyone else up the highway pushed to get their own personal lights, also. Political power really works. The worst lights were at Canal Winchester and Groveport. Three different traffic lights were installed along that stretch of Rt. 33 within one mile and eyesight of interchanges that could easily have been used by the locals. Yet the locals wanted even more convenience. The funny thing was that a majority of those cars entering the highway at these lights immediately turned toward Columbus and only one minute later was driving right through the same interchange they easily could have used if there wasn't a traffic light on Rt.33. The absolute worst case was Wendy's getting their own personal traffic light on the highway at Canal Winchester. Because of all of these traffic lights, travel between Lancaster and Columbus was unnecessarily backed-up and irritating for several decades.

Rt. 33 is a Federal highway and the major highway connecting Columbus to West Virginia and I-77. Logic would say that such a highway would most certainly be a 4-lane divided limited-access non-stop highway from I-70 to I-77.

Fortunately, somewhere along the line the political climate changed a few years ago and logical people are getting things straightened around. It has taken a long time, but we are now within 3 or 4 lights from being non-stop from the north suburbs of Columbus all the way to the Convo. That should be a huge thing for enticing Bobcat fans to make the trip from the Columbus area.

The light at Sugar Grove is for school buses serving Berne Union.

The funny thing is that both the Carroll light and the Sugar Grove light could easily have been eliminated as part of the Lancaster bypass project. Both locations are just a short distance from the beginning and ending of that project.