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== Infrastructure == === Healthcare === [[OhioHealth]] [[Pickerington Methodist Hospital]] is on Refugee road in Pickerington.<ref>{{Cite web |title=OhioHealth Pickerington Medical Campus |url=https://www.ohiohealth.com/locations/medical-campus/pickerington-medical-campus |access-date=2023-11-19 |website=OhioHealth.com |language=en-us}}</ref> In 2021 OhioHealth announced details of a six-story, 220,000 square foot hospital that includes additional cancer services to the Pickerington community. It opened in December 2023, OhioHealth Pickerington Methodist Hospital expanded the services of what was Pickerington Medical Campus to a full service hospital.<ref>{{Cite web |title=OhioHealth Pickerington Methodist Hospital {{!}} OhioHealth |url=https://www.ohiohealth.com/campaigns/pickerington-methodist-hospital |access-date=2023-11-19 |website=OhioHealth.com |language=en-us}}</ref> === Parks and recreation === Pickerington Parks and Recreation Department oversees a vast expanse of parkland that spans over 158 acres,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Pickerington Parks {{!}} Visit Fairfield County |url=https://visitfairfieldcounty.org/listing/pickerington-parks/ |access-date=2023-04-26 |language=en-US}}</ref> featuring a community pool and an array of amenities such as shelter houses, fishing ponds, basketball courts, softball fields, soccer fields, tennis courts, a putting green, playgrounds, swing sets, an arboretum, a covered bridge, sledding hills, a skate park, and an adult obstacle course.<ref name=":0" /> === Transportation === ==== Local roads ==== The city's two main corridors are [[Ohio State Route 256|Hill Road]] (state route 256) which runs from Main Street in Reynoldsburg through to Olde Pickerington Village and Refugee Road which runs through the top of the city. ==== Highways ==== Pickerington has one highway running through it [[Interstate 70 in Ohio|Interstate 70]] in the North of the city on the border of Reynoldsburg.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=City Profile Β» City of Pickerington |url=https://www.ci.pickerington.oh.us/resources/about-our-community/city-profile/ |access-date=2023-04-25 |website=www.ci.pickerington.oh.us}}</ref> ==== Rail history ==== In 1879, the first Toledo and Ohio Central Railroad (T&OC) train arrived in Pickerington after the completion of the railroad tracks and depot. The event marked the beginning of a growth period, with Pickerington's population expanding from 150 to 290 residents, and the township's population increasing from 1,220 to 1,970. For over fifty years, trains transported passengers to and from Pickerington, but with the rise of car ownership and paved roads, rail travel declined. In 1950, Pickerington's passenger service was discontinued, and the depot stopped handling freight traffic eight years later in 1958.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-11-12 |title=Picktown Train Event at Museum Sunday |url=https://pickeringtononline.com/picktown-train-event-at-museum-sunday/ |access-date=2023-04-26 |website=Pickerington Online |language=en-US}}</ref> ==== Public transit ==== Lancaster-Fairfield Public Transit has 2 bus routes in Pickerington. One is a loop the other connects to [[Lancaster, Ohio|Lancaster]] and [[Carroll, Ohio|Carroll]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Transit {{!}} Lancaster, OH - Official Website |url=https://www.ci.lancaster.oh.us/242/Transit |access-date=2023-04-25 |website=www.ci.lancaster.oh.us}}</ref>
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