Ohio State Route 176

State Route 176
Route information
Maintained by ODOT
Length:	19.42 mi[1] (31.25 km)
Existed:	1924 – present
Major junctions
South end:	I‑77 / SR 21 in Richfield
	I‑480 in Cleveland
North end:	I‑71 in Cleveland
Location
Counties:	Summit, Cuyahoga
Highway system
Ohio Highways Interstate U.S. State Scenic ← SR 175 SR 177 →

Ohio State Route 176 (SR 176) is a route linking Interstate 71 in Cleveland to Interstate 77 near Richfield. The freeway portion is known as the Jennings Freeway, while the at-grade portion is mostly Broadview Road.

Route description

Roadside scene, the 1840s Phillip Henninger House in Parma

From its southern terminus at I-77 to State Route 17, Ohio 176 has at-grade intersections. State Route 176's route from State Route 17 (Brookpark Road) to I-71 is a limited-access highway. From 1968, it functioned as an exit off of I-71 and side streets, terminating at Denison Road and serving businesses in the industrial valley. As traffic volumes to suburbs such as Parma and Parma Heights increased – and to relieve traffic from I-77 to I-480 – the freeway portion of the route (known as the Jennings Freeway) was extended as originally planned to I-480 and Brookpark Road (SR 17), opening December 8, 1998.^[2][3]

History

Soon after its creation, SR 176 was extended to Akron, routed with US 21 (Cleveland-Massillon Road), over SR 92 (Ghent Road), replacing it, and along Market Street with a portion SR 18 (at the time, SR 18 followed Twin Oaks Road from Market Street) to downtown Akron, ending at the High Street/Broadway Street couplet (then SR 5, 8, and 261, now just SR 261). After the completion of I-77, SR 176 was relocated along Wheatley Road and moved on to I-77 from exits 143 to 138, before rejoining its original alignment. In the early 1970s, US 21 was changed to SR 21 at that location, and SR 176 was truncated at I-77 exit 143. SR 18 was also truncated, but realigned to follow the entirety of Market Street (which had also carried the also-truncated SR 8 east of High and Broadway) to end at SR 91.^[4]

Major intersections

County	Location	mi[1]	km	Exit	Destinations	Notes
Summit	Richfield	0.00	0.00		I‑77 / SR 21 to I‑271 north – Akron, Cleveland	Exit 143 on I-77 / SR 21
		2.54	4.09		SR 303 (Streetsboro Road)
Cuyahoga	Broadview Heights	8.12	13.07		SR 82 (Royalton Road)
	Cleveland	15.47	24.90		SR 17 west (Brookpark Road) / Route 176J north (Broadview Road)	Western terminus of concurrency with SR 17
		15.72	25.30		SR 17 east (Brookpark Road)	Eastern terminus of concurrency with SR 17
		15.79	25.41	Southern terminus of the Jennings Freeway
		16.35	26.31	16 A-B	I‑480 – Youngstown, Toledo	Southbound exit and northbound entrance; split into exits 16A (east) and 16B (west)
		16.94	27.26	16C	Spring Road / Hinckley Parkway	Signed as exit 16 northbound
		18.26	29.39	18A	Denison Avenue / Harvard Avenue
		18.45	29.69	18B	Jennings Road / Steelyard Drive	Southbound exit and northbound entrance
		18.94	30.48	–	I‑71 south – Columbus	Southbound exit only; Exit 246 on I-71
		19.24	30.96	–	I‑71 south / West 14th Street / Steelyard Drive	Northbound exit only; Exit 246 on I-71
		19.42	31.25	–	I‑90 / I‑490 east to I‑77 – Cleveland, Toledo	Northern terminus; exit 170B on I-90; exit 1A on I-490
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi       Concurrency terminus       Incomplete access

Route 176J

State Route 176J
Location:	Cleveland
Length:	1.72 mi[1] (2.77 km)
Existed:	1993–present

Formerly applied to the Jennings Freeway section of SR 176, Route 176J is the section of Broadview Road between Brookpark Road (SR 17) in Parma and Pearl Road (U.S. Route 42) in the Old Brooklyn neighborhood of Cleveland, which formerly carried SR 176. This roadway is intended to be turned over from the state system to the local governments ("J" suffix = "awaiting abandonment"), at which time the designation will be retired.^[5][6]

References

1. Ohio Department of Transportation. "Technical Services Straight Line Diagrams". Retrieved April 30, 2010.
2. Perkins, Olivera (1998-12-06). "Freeway Opens After 40 Years of Congestion". The Plain Dealer. Retrieved 2009-09-30.
3. "Jennings Freeway Open at Last". The Plain Dealer. 1998-12-09. Retrieved 2009-09-30.
4. Route 176 Archived December 31, 2004, at the Wayback Machine.
5. ODOT Technical Services Traffic Survey Report (Cuyahoga County 2003)
6. ODOT Straight Line Diagrams legend

External links

Route map: Bing / Google

• Roadfan.com's Jennings Freeway page
• "What's the Deal with the Jennings Freeway?", Cleveland Plain Dealer, September 25, 2006