 State Route 176 | ||||
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| Route information | ||||
| Maintained byODOT | ||||
| Length | 19.42 mi[1] (31.25 km) | |||
| Existed | 1924–present | |||
| Major junctions | ||||
| South end |   I-77 /SR 21 inRichfield | |||
| Major intersections |  I-480 inCleveland | |||
| North end |  I-71 in Cleveland | |||
| Location | ||||
| Country | United States | |||
| State | Ohio | |||
| Counties | Summit,Cuyahoga | |||
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Ohio State Route 176 (SR 176) is a route linkingInterstate 71 (I-71) inCleveland toI-77 nearRichfield. The freeway portion is known as theJennings Freeway, while the at-grade portion is mostlyBroadview Road.
From its southern terminus atI-77 toSR 17, SR 176 has at-grade intersections. SR 176's route from SR 17 (Brookpark Road) to I-71 is alimited-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 asParma andParma Heights increased – and to relieve traffic from I-77 toI-480 – the freeway portion of the route (known as the Jennings Freeway) was extended as originally planned to I-480 and Brookpark Road (SR 17), opening December 8, 1998.[2][3]
Soon after its creation, SR 176 was extended to Akron, routed withU.S. Route 21 (US 21; here part of Cleveland-Massillon Road), over SR 92 (Ghent Road), replacing it, and along Market Street with a portionSR 18 (at the time, SR 18 followed Twin Oaks Road from Market Street) to downtown Akron, ending at the High Street/Broadway Street couplet (thenSR 5,8, and261, now just SR 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 changed to SR 21 at that location, 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.[4]
| County | Location | mi[1] | km | Exit | Destinations | Notes |
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| Summit | Richfield | 0.00 | 0.00 |    I-77 /SR 21 toI-271 north –Akron,Cleveland | Exit 143 on I-77 / SR 21 | |
| 2.54 | 4.09 |  SR 303 (Streetsboro Road) | ||||
| Cuyahoga | Broadview Heights | 8.12 | 13.07 |  SR 82 (Royalton Road) | ||
| Cleveland–Parma line | 15.47 | 24.90 |   SR 17 west (Brookpark Road) / Broadview Road (SR 176J north) | Western terminus of SR 17 concurrency | ||
| 15.72 | 25.30 |  SR 17 east (Brookpark Road) | Eastern terminus of SR 17 concurrency | |||
| 15.79 | 25.41 | Southern terminus of Jennings Freeway | ||||
| Cleveland | 16.35 | 26.31 | 16A-B | I-480 –Toledo,Youngstown | Southbound exit and northbound entrance; signed as exits 16A (east) and 16B (west) | |
| 16.94 | 27.26 | 16C | Spring Road / Hinckley Parkway | Signed as exit 16 northbound | ||
| 18.26 | 29.39 | 18A | Denison Avenue / Harvard Avenue | |||
| 18.45 | 29.69 | 18B | Jennings Road / Steelyard Drive | Southbound exit and northbound entrance | ||
| 18.94 | 30.48 | – |  I-71 south –Columbus | Southbound exit only; exit 246 on I-71 | ||
| 19.24 | 30.96 | – | I-71 south / West 14th Street / Steelyard Drive | Northbound exit only; exit 246 on I-71 | ||
| 19.42 | 31.25 | – |    I-90 /I-490 east toI-77 –Toledo,Cleveland | Exit 170B on I-90; exit 1A on I-490 | ||
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
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State Route 176J | |
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| Location | Cleveland |
| Length | 1.72 mi[1] (2.77 km) |
| Existed | 1998–c. 2017 |
Route 176J was the section of Broadview Road between Brookpark Road (SR 17) inParma and Pearl Road (U.S. Route 42) in theOld Brooklyn neighborhood ofCleveland, which formerly carried SR 176. Since the relocation of SR 176 onto the Jennings Freeway in 1998, this roadway was intended to be turned over from the state system to the local government ("J" suffix meaning "awaiting abandonment").[5][6] The road was kept under state maintenance until it was turned over to the city of Cleveland between 2015 and 2017.[7][8]
