Yep, just like we suspected... the Opportunity Corridor never was planned as a corridor and neither was the boulevard along the lakefront on the west side. This is soooooo stupid. Take some of those tax dollars and pay for a few interns to do fact checking for ya ODOT!

I am nonplussed that after all the BS about West Shoreway slowing, medianing, tree planting, access providing and boulevarding someone finally checked the book and discovered that this never should have been proposed in the first place!!!

Editorial: State, local officials can't let ODOT make a U-turn on the Shoreway [1]

"After years of studies and public meetings, ODOT is now telling the city that it may not be able to include intersections in the plan or to lower the speed limit from 50 mph to 35 mph. On the speed issue, the department cites regulations apparently unnoticed until now. High speed, no stoplights. Not much of a boulevard, now is it?

Redoing the Shoreway is supposed to slow traffic, to make it easier for Clevelanders to reach the lakefront, to open land for development and recreation. A glorified repaving job won't do any of that."

Well have a beer and laugh at the irony of how our tax dollars are spent and then buy a tank of gasoline and drive away to someplace with brains, because if you can't see that this is just workforce development in the form of ODOT meetings... get out your spectacles!!!

“The idea of transforming the West Shoreway into a boulevard emerged a decade ago during Civic Vision discussions organized by then-Mayor Michael R. White. His successor, Jane Campbell, made it a key element of her lakefront planning; at public meetings, the proposal never failed to spark excitement. Cleveland's current mayor, Frank Jackson, has also embraced it."

CIVIC VISION?!?! Don't we mean civic blindness?

Or maybe it is just repaving with frills. Or maybe it is a way to make repaving seem palatable to residents and taxpayers in NEO. After all the grandiose plans for roadways in NEO, signature bridges (that will ultimately result in a paint job and a crutch for the innerbelt bridge), for all the meetings at the Greek Church in Tremont and the drawings and renderings and consultants and plans and arguments and letters and disenfranchised cyclists, environmentalists and drag raceway promoters, was this all just a method for Cleveland Clinic to get 490 to usher the ambulances with visiting dignitaries to their back door (ER)?

Let us please recall that the Lee Clark Freeway (and more freeways that linked to them [2]) was stopped dead in its tracks by some little ladies in tennis shoes [3] way back well not too long ago. Little ladies strap 'em on (those tennis shoes), cause we may need to lay down (a la "sit in") again in front of the likes of Albert Porter.

The West Shoreway won't be a boulevard because ODOT can't slow down and the Opportunity Corridor, too will be a high speed freeway right through the new surface parking lot at CCF that used to be a beautiful deco building [4].

I’d link the ODOT plan, but “Firefox can't find the server at www.innerbelt.org [5]” Go figure!

This is so typical! We said no to a highway and now the “powers that be” are trying another method to foist it upon us. We said no to gambling, but now the MedMart is the biggest gamble we’ve seen in recent history. We’ve got commissioners planning major improvements while the coffers are empty. Hey Tim and Jimmy, balance my budget with a fake economic development tax will ya?

Oh boy! Can we get some leadership that can see past their ___ (fill in the blank yourself)?