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Judy on the Jennings (18 December 1998)

The Jennings Freeway--the northern end of Ohio 176--opened up last Tuesday afternoon. It runs from Brookpark Road and I-480 north to the tangle of ramps that centers around I-71 and I-490. The last part to be completed was everything south of the Harvard/Denison Avenue split.

The new road makes it quicker to get to the Broadview/Brookpark intersection from downtown, Tremont, or Brooklyn Centre. Indeed, the southbound signs read "[Ohio silhouette] 176 South - Parma."

I talked to longtime Cleveland driving expert and Cleveland State alumna Judy Schumann about the new road.

"I really like it," said Judy, "but I feel so guilty about it." She saves time by driving on The Jennings rather than going south from our neighborhood along Pearl and State, but she also recognizes the waste of acreage and lost houses due to construction of yet another six-lane expressway.

What is now called Brooklyn Centre was cut off from the north--the big, busy Clark Avenue area--decades ago by the construction of I-71. Old folks here still complain about having lost good homes on Smith and Dover Avenues, streets that exist today only on outdated maps. Now we add to the casualties those few "number" streets, roughly the lower 'teens, and bits of Botany Avenue, areas that used to overhang the southern Flats before the bulldozers came in the early 1990s.

(It's not so much that people are forced into homelessness when this happens. The population of the city has declined so much since before the freeway boom that there is no shortage of buildings to put people into. In fact, the opposite problem is taking place; we have too few dollars chasing so many houses and apartments that landlords don't feel much incentive to maintain and improve their properties. Cleveland has its homeless, but they're living on the streets and in shelters because they are dead broke, not because of supply and demand.)

I drive on the new 176 four or five days a week, given my generally Akron-way contracts. It probably saves me five minutes each way, going south on 176, jogging a mile east on 480 to 77 south instead of making the big northern loop on 490 to 77. And every time I take this new "shortcut" I ask myself whether it was really necessary to lop off another chunk of the neighborhood and spend $55 million on construction just to make another easy way to get out of the city.

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