Ohio State Route 176

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State Route 176

Length:

19.42 mi^[1] (31.25 km)

Formed:

1924

South end:

I-77/SR 21 in Richfield

Major
junctions:

I-77/SR 21 in Richfield

I-71 in Cleveland

North end:

I-71 in Cleveland

Counties:

Cuyahoga, Summit

Ohio highways
< SR 175		SR 177 >
Interstates - U.S. Routes - State Routes

State Route 176 (SR 176) is partially 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 highway portion of the route (known as the Jennings Freeway) was extended as originally planned to I-480 and Brookpark Road SR 17 in 1998. South of SR 17, the route is a grade-level road to its southern terminus.

At one time, SR 176 went all the way to Akron, multiplexing with US 21 (now CR 17) from Richfield to Ghent. At that point it followed Ghent Road, then multiplexing with SR 18 until that highway split at Twin Oaks Road. SR 176 continued along Market Street, before ending at High and Broadway Streets (then SR 5, 8, and 261, now just carries 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 downgraded to SR 21 and scaled back, 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.^[2]

[edit] Route 176J

Formerly applied to the Jennings Freeway section of SR 176, Route 176J is the section of Broadview Road between Brookpark Road (SR 17) in Brooklyn 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.^[3]^[4]