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By: buckeyerino

buckeyerino — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 19:42:07 +0000

I will say this on behalf of 45 mph parkways–they can be useful, particularly at a highway off-ramp into a residential area.

But the highway is what makes them more useful.

By: buckeyerino

buckeyerino — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 19:37:09 +0000

I hope you can look beyond NEO for parallels to what I’m proposing for Lorain (because, frankly, NEO is currently–economically speaking–one of the armpits of the nation), but if we are to use Northeast Ohio for our comparisons, then I must point out that Cleveland has, in addition to I-490, I-90, I-77, and I-71, with I-480 skimming it’s southern city limits. And the highways within Lorain?

????

Nothing. That’s my point.

As for what you propose, Lorain has made feeble attempts at such landscaping, such as Tower Boulevard, but guess what? It can’t compensate for the lack of highways.

Those 45 mph parkways are for bedroom communities, not for a regional industrial, commercial, and employment hub. Sheffield Lake is a bedroom community. Lorain is a central city within a standard metropolitan statistical area. I hope Lorainites can seize upon that concept. Part of the reason that Lorain continues to decay and will continue to decay is that it is not properly outfitted to perform its appointed function.

By: Kalin Stipe

Kalin Stipe — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 07:04:23 +0000

I was thinking along the lines of a 45 MPH limited access 4 lane parkway system. Something similar to rt 57 though Elyria & the Cleveland Shoreway.

Your plan is more like I-490 that just dumps onto E.55th.

By: buckeyerino

buckeyerino — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 21:21:19 +0000

Those are some cool pics, Mr. Stipe, but the upgrades I am advocating for are not necessarily cosmetic. I want limited access divided highways crisscrossing Lorain that motorists can navigate at 65 mph, with widened arterial surface streets at the highway off-ramps. Speed is of the essence.