Toledo area's transportation assets

my Nov 2006 TT comment
http://www.toledotalk.com/cgi-bin/comments.pl/16/3201#44187

"[Toledo is] a great transportation hub for drugs and weapons."

And the sex trade as spotlighted earlier this year by The Blade. The criminals know the value of Toledo being near the crossroads of I-75 and the turnpike.

From my September 2005 sarcastic comment:

"Even drug dealers understand the vital importance of Toledo's location to major transportation arteries. Maybe one or two of the people arrested should be hired by Toledo or the Port Authority to promote Toledo and Lucas County to attract new business. Legitimate business, that is."

John S. Szuch, chairman of the board, Fifth Third Bank, Northwestern Ohio said in an interview in the September 2005 issue of The Development News:

"We also need to decide what we are. We're hub at the intersection of 80/90 and I-75, we have good rail, an underutilized airport, a dynamic port authority -- we really need to focus on distribution and our location to move forward. There are huge opportunities here."

As much as possible, Toledo needs to exploit its assets: auto industry, agriculture, transportation hub, water recreation.