Interstate 290 (Ohio)

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Interstate 290 (abbreviated I-290) in Ohio was a planned route which would have included what is now I-490 and would have connected to I-271.

The original plans of the Cleveland and other city and federal highway authorities called for the highway, also known as the Clark Freeway, to bisect the East Side and the eastern suburbs. A referendum in Shaker Heights in the late 1960s, however, barred the city from allowing the highway to pass through the city. This put a large and impassable hole in the plans and made the completion of the highway as a whole impossible. However, a segment at the western end opened in 1990 as I-490.

An earlier number for part of I-290 was I-80N.[1]

[edit] See also

Freeway and expressway revolts

[edit] External Links

Feature Stories: When Bad Ideas Happen to Good Suburbs: The Clark, Lee and Heights Freeways (Cleveland Heights Historical Society)
"Women saved Shaker Lakes from freeways", Cleveland Plain Dealer, September 25, 2006 (Alternate location)
Historic Cleveland Maps - includes freeway planning maps.

	edit Auxiliary routes of Interstate 90
I-190	Illinois - Massachusetts - New York - South Dakota
I-290	Illinois - Massachusetts - New York
I-390	New York
I-490	New York - Ohio
I-590	New York
I-690	New York
I-790	New York
I-890	New York
I-990	New York
past/ future	I-290: Ohio