Lakeland Freeway

Interstate 90 marker State Route 2 marker

Lakeland Freeway
Route information
Maintained by ODOT
Length: 24.51 mi[1] (39.45 km)
Existed: Early 1960s – present
Major junctions
West end: I‑90 / SR 2 / SR 283 in Cleveland
  I‑90 in Euclid
East end: US 20 / SR 2 in Painesville Township
Highway system

The Lakeland Freeway (often called "Route 2" in the section that carries solely Ohio State Route 2) is a limited-access freeway in the northeastern suburbs of Cleveland, Ohio. It runs with and parallel to Interstate 90, and follows the shore of Lake Erie, linking the suburban areas of Lake County to Cleveland and Cuyahoga County.

Route description

The Lakeland Freeway passes through the municipalities of Cleveland, Euclid, Wickliffe, Willowick, Willoughby, Eastlake, Mentor, Painesville, and Painesville Township. The freeway is eight lanes in the I-90/SR 2 section. The SR 2 section to the east had consisted of six lanes only to Vine Street, but the third lane in each direction was extended to SR 44 between 2006 and 2012.[2][3] It then narrows to four lanes from there to its eastern terminus in Painesville Township at US 20. The freeway has seen tremendous growth since it opened in the 1960s. In 2003, average daily traffic ranged from about 94,100 at the I-90/SR 2 split to 31,200 east of Painesville.[4]

History

Lakeland Freeway and the Cleveland Memorial Shoreway: At left is the USGS topographic map showing the eastern terminus of the Cleveland Memorial Shoreway in 1953. At right is the same map area in 1963 showing the Cleveland Memorial Shoreway merging with the newly constructed Lakeland Freeway.

The Lake County section of freeway was authorized by Lake County Commissioners in 1957,[3] and constructed and opened to traffic in the early 1960s. It was blended into the Cleveland Memorial Shoreway at the western end in Cuyahoga County; because of that, the "Shoreway" name is often applied to the Lakeland Freeway from its west end to the I-90/SR 2 split.[5]

Exit list

For the exits along the Lakeland Freeway, see Ohio State Route 2#Major intersections and Interstate 90 (Ohio)#Exit list.

References

Route map: Bing / Google

  1. ↑ Technical Service Straight Line Diagrams from The Ohio Department of Transportation
  2. ↑ "State Route 2 Modernization & Lane Addition, Lake County". Ohio Department of Transportation District 12.
  3. 1 2 Improving State Route 2 Project Plan (Lake County Engineer's Web Site)
  4. ↑ Purpose and Need Statement to Improve State Route 2 (Lake County Engineer's Web Site) from ARCADIS FPS via Archive.org
  5. ↑ Example: John, Andrew (2011-06-27). "Wind Turbine Starts Up in Euclid above Lincoln Electric Co.". The Plain Dealer. Retrieved 2011-06-28. The sprawling blades on Ohio's largest wind turbine started turning 278 feet above the headquarters of Lincoln Electric this weekend in Euclid...located a few hundred yards from the Shoreway....

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