Among the provisions in the state’s largest ever transportation budget is a project that has stirred controversy in Northeast Ohio for several decades.
BRUNSWICK, Ohio — Before he signed the $13.5 billion transportation bill into law Friday, Governor Mike DeWine addressed a proposed interchange on Interstate 71 between Strongsville and Brunswick.
“Containing language like this in a bill is not the conventional way that interchanges occur in the state of Ohio or anything else in regard to transportation. We have a procedure to be followed. This did not follow that procedure,” DeWine said. Patton and others in Strongsville have long been proponents of an additional interchange between the two cities, saying it would alleviate traffic and promote. Some neighbors to the south in Brunswick disagree.
Hanek strongly opposes the idea. He’s been raising concerns about the residential street turning into a major commercial corridor like Route 82. It’s a design he believes is the root of Strongsville’s traffic woes. Her husband Josh Court added, “It’s quiet. I mean that’s what drew me to this area. We had to cut down some trees, but it’s just secluded back here.”
On Friday, DeWine said any potential project faces many hurdles, including federal, state and local approval. He also said ODOT is still wrapping up a traffic study in the area and doesn’t anticipate starting a project there until 2030 at the earliest.
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