Instead, the State wanted eastbound traffic to sit on the bridge and make a left across westbound traffic and use the same ramp to northbound 271 as the westbound traffic. This plan was unacceptable for two reasons. The State planned on having the highway end at Chagrin Rd. The other reason was the large amount of traffic that would be sitting on the bridge as the area developed. The issue was resolved only after a traffic study was done and the State gave in and offered to add the Cloverleaf for eastbound traffic.
Freeway ends sign in the background.
Taken in 1966 several years after the section from Wilson Mills Rd. Photo courtesy of Cleveland Press Collection at Cleveland State University Page 63 Much of the land that was taken in the Chagrin Blvd. On the south side of the street most of the land was owned by the Fry family estate. Several years before the freeway was built Miss Mary L. Fry died. According to her last will and testament she left her lawyer and friend Francis B. Shaw the land that had been in her family for decades.