Credit: ODOT
Construction on the third phase of the Opportunity Corridor will close I-490 between I-77 and East 55th St. beginning on May 29th and lasting two years.

Two years.

Two.

Years.

Detours will be as follows, via ODOT:

I-77 northbound detour to East 55th Street northbound:
Exit at East 22nd Street/East 14th Street
Keep left onto East 14th Street
Keep right onto East 18th Street
Turn right on Carnegie Avenue to East 55th Street

I-77 northbound detour to East 55th Street southbound:
Exit at Woodland Avenue/East 30th Street
Keep right onto Woodland Avenue to East 55th Street

I-77 southbound detour to East 55th Street:
Exit at Woodland Avenue/East 30th Street
Keep left onto Woodland Avenue to East 55th Street

East 55th Street detour to I-490 westbound:
West on Woodland Ave to East 30th Street
Keep left and merge onto Orange Avenue
Keep right, merge onto I-77 southbound

Two years!

This article appears in Jan 2-8, 2019.

Vince Grzegorek has been with Scene since 2007 and editor-in-chief since 2012. He previously worked at Discount Drug Mart and Texas Roadhouse.

9 replies on “I-490 to Close Between I-77 and East 55th for Two Years of Construction Starting in May”

  1. Omg. This is going to be horrific. Will they at least reopen the right lane on the on-ramp to 77 (in blue on that map)? That lane has been closed for over a year, and already has made traffic there terrible. There’s been no reason for it – they’ve literally never worked on it.

  2. This should never have been built in the first place. GOOD RIDDANCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    And boo hoo hoo. A direct link to E. 55th is cut off.

    I guess people will have to get off on exit 2A to Broadway Avenue and drive EXACTLY THE SAME DISTANCE south.

  4. Six weeks after it becomes possible to connect from I-490 to the completed eastern section of the Opportunity Corridor (which MUST be renamed!) via East 55th, Woodland, and East 93rd, the announcement is made that I-490 will close for TWO years (probably three or four or five) and make the current shortcut USELESS? What a f’king JOKE!

    Now Woodland will become a traffic-choked nightmare as everybody begins using it as a detour. This stupid project originally entered the discussion stage in 2002 and is going to take a total of SIXTEEN years (at best) to finish? Rome wasn’t built in a day, but it certainly was finished a LOT faster than this fiasco. Where are the Caesars and their enegineers when you really need them?

  5. OOPS…make that “originally entered the discussion stage in 2005…not 2002. So when the damn thing is finally opened in another two years, sixteen years will have passed since the idea for the OC was born. Of course, the 2021 completion date will probably be pushed back a couple more times until it’s 2023. They’ll probably be delayed by the discovery of radioactive waste from the Manhattan Project or dinosaur bones or a Mob burial site. Only in Cleveland…

  7. They will construct an interchange and underpass-overpass at East 55th and I-490. It will connect 490 with the western section of the OC. Yes, there’s some major engineering involved. But TWO YEARS? And what if we have two shitty winters in a row? That’s a major intersection. I believe Fox-8 reported that something like 38,000 vehicles a day pass through it. That’s nothing to sneeze at. They should be planning to work on it non-stop until it’s DONE.

  8. When ODOT and Civil engineers are involved you can be sure it is a Cluster…. They design new interchanges with blind spots which cause accidents ( WB ramp for Nagle road in Avon, 77 Rockside road ramp-you need to punch gas when turning right as you can’t see oncoming traffic)
    They have stopped working on the SB ramp to 490 to 77 even with good weather and stopped on the Granger overpass.

  9. This is complete BS. Closing a major highway and interchange for two years????? All of these people should be fired.

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