Update: Those shuttling up and down the Shoreway on any regular basis have surely noticed and cursed the construction that started last week and will continue through November. (Those details below in our original post.)
What they’ll see soon is another resounding headache courtesy of ODOT. The PD’s transportation guru Ginger Christ shared this morning that eastbound entrance and exit ramps at W. 45th St. will close August 15 for 120 days.
Detours suggestions below. (Basically, Getting On: W. 49th St. to Edgewater Dr.; Getting Off: Via W. 25th St. to Detroit and then back to Detroit-Shoreway.)
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(Original story 8/1/16): Prepare your zen strategies, West Side motorists. The Shoreway’s Lake Avenue exit ramp will be down for the count for a few weeks while ODOT dives headlong into bridge construction for the Lakefront West Project, which envisions the Shoreway as tree-lined 35-mph boulevard.
What this means: You won’t be able to access the Shoreway from Clifton (heading east) starting Aug. 4 and through November. For westbound peeps, the Lake Avenue exit will be converted to permit two-way traffic. You’ll be deposited down at the intersection of Lake Avenue and West Boulevard starting Aug. 8 and for 25 days thereafter.
Delays are anticipated, particularly during rush hour. It won’t be half as hellacious as the Captain America: Winter Soldier debacle, but ODOT is nonetheless encouraging folks to find alternate routes or take the RTA.
Or you can follow this guy’s lead:
This article appears in Jul 27 – Aug 2, 2016.
Nothing better than condescension from a guy who gets paid to tweet!
“Move downtown.” Uh huh. Average two-bedroom over $1000? Yeah, let me get right on that.
average two bedroom might be over $1000, but average car costs more than half that to own and living downtown you can ditch it. so… come out ahead.
Joel Hammond’s suggestion to 50,000 miserable Shoreway commuters: “move downtown.” Oh, ok.
I cannot believe what they are doing to this west side commute. This along with all of those who are frustrated with the inner belt back ups and usually cut to the shore way to get onto I-90 off W. 26 or Baltic, or West Blvd. Why not reduce speed on I-90, I-77 and I-71 down to 35 mph? I wonder where the people who dreamed up this idea of 35 mph and tree lined, live.
If we Westsiders can’t get on the Shoreway at Clifton, where CAN we get on? Where will the traffic from Clifton be routed, please? Will we have to go up Detroit Avenue to Gordon Square, and get on there? Or will we have to continue on Detroit up to W 45th? At least help us out – those who aren’t in a position to just “move downtown”. Thanks.
West Shoreway inaccessible from Clifton, West 150th/Warren Rd. has one-way stretch northbound S of 90, Rocky River/ McKinley exit blocked by bridge repairs, Lorain and Munn both being resurfaced. Who the hell planned all this stuff for the West Side at THE SAME TIME. right after the RNC?
Now all streets that remain untouched and are posted as “detours”, plus side streets being used as shortcuts, are choked with backups much of the time. Whoever drew up the timetable for all this must have had their heads up their asses.
Why did it all have to be done in mid-to-late summer? There’s decent weather most of the time for the next 3 to 3 1/2 months. At some times of the day, it’s like trying to get across town in a winter storm. This shit is ridiculous.
Chuckles the Clown
Just don’t eat, drink or shop downtown, or Ohio City, or Gordon Square, since they think this is funny to trap us. Hit them where it hurts! We will be so pissed that we won’t want to stop for anything downtown. Wait for the bikes on the shoreway. Morons!!