With over one million square feet of retail, Chagrin must continue to serve as a major traffic artery. Today, the road is called Chagrin Boulevard and carries 26,000 vehicles daily. Chagrin Boulevard's traffic and pedestrian problems are typical of surban strip developments. A proliferation of driveways serving stand alone parking lots produce sudden stop and go movements. Local traffic movement throughout the community, including access from the five, dead end residential streets south of Chagrin and two of the apartment complexes to the north, is frequently choked due to extreme traffic congestion.
Sidewalks are discontinuous and there are few crosswalks.
Bicycling is impossible and both regional transit and school bus stops are all but inaccessible. Woodmere Village is a unique project in that it affords a rare opportunity to experiment with turning a classic suburban commercial strip into an urbanized, walkable, multi-modal community. Additional traffic engineering and design studies are currently underway. Contact Us 1996-2001, Project for Public Spaces, Inc.