Cleveland area roadgeeking

[mrsman]

Hello all,

I live in the DC suburbs and we'll be taking a trip to Pittsburgh and Cleveland at the end of the month.  I wonder if anyone knows of any areas that would be of interest to a roadgeek in either city or along the way.  I know about Breezewood, but I'd like to hear any recommendations of some other interesting highway features (on freeways or on streets) in either area or along the way.

Thanks.

[JREwing78]

Pittsburgh and Cleveland both have a ton of weird and interesting highway design features worth scoping out. I'll post some less-obvious ones here:

- There's a lot of covered bridges in and around Ashtabula, OH.

- OH 11 has a rest area between Warren and Ashtabula that involves an at-grade crossing of SBD traffic - the rest of the highway is interstate-compatible freeway.

- US-422 has an old, narrow twinned section between Parkman and Welshfield, west of Warren. One side is the original roadbed; the twinned side has flatter transitions between upgrades and downgrades. It's mildly amazing it hasn't been converted to a wider 2-lane section.

- Alliance and Salem, OH feature partial US 62 bypasses that were never finshed or connected to each other.

- I-68 through western Maryland and eastern West Virginia is worth traveling just for the ridiculous hill climbs and the attendant scenery.

[iBallasticwolf2]

Pittsburgh and Cleveland both have a ton of weird and interesting highway design features worth scoping out.

I have to agree with you. Since Pittsburgh is so hilly it is very interesting to see especially from I-376 and I-279. You'll be able to go in the Squirrel Hill Tunnel and see the very interesting Penn Lincoln Parkway. You can see an overpass near it with a net to catch falling concrete. I-279 and I-376 have some very high arch overpasses that are interesting to see.

[The Ghostbuster]

Have they begun converting the State Highway 2 portion of the Cleveland Memorial Shoreway into a 35 MPH boulevard?

[Mr_Northside]

You can see an overpass near it with a net to catch falling concrete.

Not just a net, but a whole other overpass dedicated to catching debris.  However, that will all be gone right after Christmas this year when it's all demolished to build a new bridge in it's place (an arch bridge again, but, last plans I saw, one made out of steel).
Of course, none of this is that close to Cleveland.