City council members are feeling the heat from constituents to help alleviate downtown Cincinnati congestion for drivers. A new motion is pushing the administration to do more. Its been more than six weeks since a fire shut down the southbound lanes of I-471, sending a large portion of the 50,000 daily vehicles to the citys street grid below.Council member Seth Walsh and Evan Nolans motion on addressing the issue passed the Climate, Environmental and Infrastructure Committee on Tuesday."Someone just needs to take the lead on pushing forward on this," Walsh said. He emphasized that the motion is to direct the administration to step up as leaders in the cause to try to fix and solve as much of the congestion as we possibly can.Its aimed to challenge perceived inertia from the city administration on addressing the traffic. Walsh said he is disappointed with the citys reaction so far.At a news conference last week, City Manager Sheryl Long said the citys efforts are already at their maximum.Long said there are no plans to put officers on the street to direct traffic, citing public safety resources and that traffic signal timings are at their max.When asked by WCPO about what options remain, she said the Department of Transportation and Engineering will give recommendations and that the city will continue to have conversations with them to see what other things that they think they do. Given that position from the city administration, WCPO asked Walsh what his motion aims to accomplish.My motion challenges that theres more we can do than just that, he said. I think that getting to yes and getting to solutions is the next step we have to go down.He said improvements may actualize after normal traffic volume returns in early January. At that point, hed like to see an assessment of whats working and whats not.When asked for a metric for success, Walsh said he'll start noticing the trend is either people are getting happier or were going to start hearing fewer comments.Since speaking out on bridge traffic one month ago, Walsh said hes been bombarded daily with upset constituents.One proposed solution from council member Mark Jeffreys is to request that the Ohio Department of Transportation and the OKI Regional Council of Governments explore the possibility of diverting traffic from I-71, I-75 and I-74 to the I-275 loop."Even if you could divert a quarter or half of it, that would be a huge help to freeing up the bottleneck in the bridges by the river," he said. "Its not easy, but, you know, neither are some of these other solutions." Meanwhile, construction on the damaged I-471 lanes continues to progress. ODOT spokesperson Kathleen Fuller said demolition is nearly completed. This week, crews are repairing the concrete support pillars.Steel has arrived from Illinois to a fabrication plant in Bowling Green, Kentucky. In the coming weeks, it will be fabricated into custom-made girders and then shipped to the bridge site for crews to install.All of this is on schedule right now, she said.ODOT had previously stated the targeted completion date for the I-471 southbound repairs is in March.