In recent years, the City of Hamilton has been experiencing a resurgence of economic growth and redevelopment. Major new development includes 27 new restaurants, retail, and entertainment businesses; the Saica corrugated packaging manufacturing facility; several new mixed use apartment buildings; and the redevelopment of the Champion Mill property into the Spooky Nook Sports Champion Mill complex which is expected to attract a million visitors a year. While these changes have had a positive impact on jobs and progress in our community, they’ve also amplified local transportation challenges including:

• Inefficient roadway connections to major state routes and interstates 
• Difficulty traveling between the east and west sides of Hamilton, both on streets and across bridges
• High crash rates at key intersections
• Travel delays caused by congestion and frequent train crossings
• Lack of adequate sidewalks and bike paths
• Few public transit alternatives

Recognizing that these issues need to be addressed to better support our businesses, residents, and visitors both now and in the future, the City and the BCTID have already completed multiple improvements including:

• Construction of the South Hamilton Crossing (SHX) Jim Blount Overpass (completed in 2018) to provide an overpass across four busy CSX railroad tracks, reduce travel times, increase safety and provide improved access to the Miami University Hamilton Campus, Vora Technology Park, and 60+acres of vacant land;
• Completion of several improvement projects on Main and High streets to make needed repairs, support higher traffic volumes, remove overhead utilities, replace old water mains and improve streetscapes;
• Reconfiguration of Rhea Ave. and North B Street to support better traffic flow to and from the Spooky Nook Sports Champion Mill Complex;
• Implementation of vehicle and pedestrian safety improvements along the Main Street corridor; 
• Reconfiguration of the intersection of SR 177 (Main St.) with Cereal, Haldimand, Western, and McKinley to improve traffic flow;
• Improvements to SR 129 (High St.) at the US 127 (MLK) and SR 177 (Main St.)/Milleville Ave./Eaton Ave. intersections;
• Installation of smart traffic signals to automatically adjust to changes in traffic flow (to be completed in 2021 and 2022).

We are now beginning another effort, referred to as the North Hamilton Crossing (NHX) project, to improve traffic flow through the northern part of Hamilton. Our study area, highlighted yellow in the map below, extends between NW Washington Blvd. and North B St. on the west side of the Great Miami River, and US 127 (North 3^rd St.), SR 4 (Erie Blvd.) and SR 129 at Hampshire Dr. on the east side, all north of SR 129/High St. The need for improvements in this area was first documented in the BCTID's 2002 transportation study, and while only identified as a concept, it has remained a priority in Plan Hamilton, the City’s comprehensive plan.

Your Input is Needed
Public input is important and will be used to guide project development and decision-making. Multiple public feedback opportunities will be available as this study continues. Questions and comments can also be sent to the project team any time via this website, or by email, mail or phone. Contact information is provided in the Project Contact section of this site.

The questions you see below and on the following pages of this site are questions that were asked as part of the Public Input Opportunity that was held in September 2021. Although the questions are now closed, the responses we received have been left up for public review. You can also review the results by reading the Public Input Opportunity Summary Report.