CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – Motorists are urged to use caution after Friday night snowfall caused messy roads for drivers Saturday morning. Cleveland Police report several accidents on highways and streets where drivers lost control of their vehicles.  As of 9:20 a.m. the following accidents were active scenes according to dispatch: -Interstate 71 southbound at SR 237: There is a […]
GARFIELD HEIGHTS, Ohio – The Ohio Department of Transportation announced its summer construction plans in a press conference this morning. The state’s Jobs and Transportation Plan, launched by Gov. John Kasich, is the centerpiece of this year’s season, ODOT said. ODOT expects to spend $2.5 billion this season on 936 projects statewide, including $790 […]
CLEVELAND – (Check your commute here on our traffic incident page) 4:39 p.m. – Ohio State Highway Patrol advising the the Ohio Turnpike is CLOSED in all directions from the Fremont exit to Milan exit. 4:30 p.m. I-90 westbound at MLK Boulevard is CLOSED due to a multi-car accident. 4:25 p.m. From Ohio State Patrol: […]
Medina County, OH – The highways of Ohio will not, at least hopefully, resemble a Nascar race, but you will be able push your speed from 65 mph to 70 mph, legally, on a good chunk of the state’s highways beginning on July 1. “I don’t think it changes the way most people drive around […]
CLEVELAND – The state of Ohio announced Tuesday the stretches of highway where drivers will soon be able to go a little faster. Starting July 1, drivers will be able to go 70 mph on 570 miles of interstate highway, which includes the entire Ohio Turnpike. The higher speed will only be authorized “outside urban […]
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Provisional numbers show fewer motorists were killed on Ohio’s roadways this Thanksgiving holiday, the Ohio State Highway Patrol reports. Eleven people were killed this Thanksgiving holiday period, a decrease from the past three years when 17 were killed in 2011, 18 in 2010 and 20 in 2009. The reporting period began Nov. […]
GARFIELD HEIGHTS, OH (WOIO) – Rusted steel, chipping and cracking concrete. Miles and miles of sound barriers around Cleveland that don’t need to be broken, they’re falling apart on their own. “Obviously, there’s disappointment. Many of these walls were expected to last 20 years. We got close to 15 years,” Jackie Shafer with ODOT said. […]