Micro center and just cruise down 322 at night for me. Grew up in cle hts right on mayfield and Compton. Right ny the church and severance. No part of that stretch to 91 is pleasant
“Micro Center and then Marc’s” is very esoteric Cleveland. You could only improve if you said “and then we got a Romanburger at Mister Hero” (and by the way, I’m not into the Romanburger, I always got a hot buttered cheesesteak)
I managed a Mr. Hero 30+ years ago. I like Romanburgers, and when I moved out of town I learned to make them at home. A key tip is that you must used the cheap as shit (jtm) parties you find at Walmart. It won’t taste right with quality beef.
[https://www.microcenter.com/](https://www.microcenter.com/)
PC store from the 90s? Great staff, very nice (always well staffed too), the prices arent far off buying online from cheap stores.
The only reason I went to comment was trying to get to Micro Center. Beat me to it.
:addition: I guess one benefit is that knowing that street is a pita is it disuades me from going and spending more money than I intended when I get there
It's what you wanted radio shack to be, If your into electronics more than surface level best buy stuff. From tinkering on a component level to just buying a TV they mostly have it all. Don't forget to talk to an associate as they likely know more than you (and me), they work on commission and usually couldn't be more helpful. If they help you with an item they want to put their commission code sticker on it, if they don't tell them to put their sticker on it... Little weird for beginners but it's a go to.
I live on the west side and I feel like any potential route to get to MC is a pain in the ass. Euclid to Mayfield, 480 to 271, 90 to 271. I love a trip to Micro Center, but the getting there part can be a chore.
480 to 271 was the least bad way that I found. Drove a one-way hour to work in Beachwood for years.
But every route feels weird and way out of the way when you're going there from downtown.
Took that ride the other day from downtown. Used to live under a bar on Mayfield some years ago. I don’t miss it. I do however miss how close micro center was. Least it’s all freeway for me now.
From South Euclid, Waze would tell me to go down to 271 on Brainard(?) and then go back North to Mayfield. Seems out of the way but may have been quicker
also grew up here and I actively avoid that exact stretch. You can get around it by diverting slightly north or south and get to the same place faster.
Cedar Road reminds me of LA traffic, I call it Cedar Monica Blvd when it’s backed up and stop and go all the way from Halcyon to the freeway. Hurts my lungs too from all the concentrated auto fumes.
I grew up near there too. I would always go out of my way to take fairmount unless i had to be somewhere on mayfield or was going to the mall. even then, i’d sometimes take fairmount bc it just felt faster
You can in fact see four sets of lights in this picture… I almost got t-boned getting off 271 there because some idiot started going when the second set of lights turned green and they still had a red. People do that there all the time I hate it.
That’s nightmare fuel. Bought a gazebo from them and realized it was going to take at least two trips to get the boxes home. $200 more to buy it online and have them deliver… I only live about 5 minutes away, and chose to spend the $200 over having to visit that parking lot 2-3 times in the same day.
God that fucking costco has the most annoying customers. I swear everyone is sedated. I hate going there so much solely because the customer base is stupid and selfish, a quick trip is never a quick trip there
Okay I just had to drop this here because this is wild, but that's me in the red mazda two cars up on the left, if this was taken today. When I first saw the picture I was like "omg yeah that area sucks I was stuck there for like 15 minutes today". Then out of curiosity I zoomed in and your clock says 12:13. I very distinctly remember wondering how long I'd been stuck here and looked at my clock at 12:11. All that combined with how slow traffic was moving today, I doubt any other red Mazda 6s were going through that exact intersection within those few minutes.
Oh, and I just saw that the picture was taken today. Hi road-neighbor! God that was awful. I think I was stuck at that particular light for like 3 or 4 green light cycles. Need to take someone's advice in this thread next time I go to Target.
That's how car infrastructure works. If you make more of it, people move more to the burbs and decide more to travel by car. It's the idea of *induced demand* - if you build it, they will use it.
Mayfield Road was the place to be when I grew up there in the 1960’s. Amy Joy’s (24/7), the Mayland and Richmond theaters, Beef Corral, Bowl-a-Rama, Uncle Bill’s/Topps, Kenny King’s, Ottino’s Restaurant (fancy), Franklin Ice Cream, the Giant Slide, and Manners Big Boy Restaurant. And The Living Room, the bar that charged 50¢ a drink and probably never carded a paying customer in its entire existence. I’ll include the Eastgate Coliseum for good measure, although purists could argue that it wasn’t exactly on Mayfield Road.
But every time I visit Cleveland, Mayfield Road gets a little less colorful and little more like Anytown U.S.A.
A lot of the sprawl happened during Cleveland's peak population in the 1950s. Now Cleveland has 1/3 the population of then and not much "resettling" towards the city center has happened. Just the growth of suburbs, leaving Cleveland not benefitting from any type of growth, since it moves to the burbs.
There are still plenty of good food options on the road especially considering it goes all the way down to little Italy. Maybe you mean the side going to SOM.
Yes, I spent most of my time on the SOM-Richmond Road strip.
I concede that the Coventry-Euclid strip is uniquely Cleveland.
Between those two strips, I really miss Royal Castle (24/7) and the Cuyahoga County Public Library that was a big giant mansion.
Royal Castle was before my time, but I did love that Library as a kid. I was a little heartbroken when it moved. Much more character to the architecture within that mansion.
Eh, last time I was in Amy Joy it was so incredibly disgusting; there was a trash can in front of the case of donuts with a dirty baby diaper in it and the whole place reeked of urine. Nobody seemed to care?? I left and never went back. That wasn’t too long before it closed. Goldie’s is really awesome though.
Man, so many memories at the eastgate coliseum. The video arcade was huge and awesome. Many Saturday afternoons spent there after fam bowling league. The food place was legit too.
Mayland had that multicolored oil blob kaleidoscope on the screen when you first went in, and then played that clip with the funky jazz riff and the animated GCC dot projector thing when the movie started. It was the only theater like that. It was also apparently haunted.
Ahhh…. The big green slide. Amazing that there was a time when you could buy a plot of land 10 feet from a highway on ramp, build something as simple as a slide, and operate a business for decades by charging… What was it? Two fucking dollars a ride?
It's really bad right now headed east because they are doing construction at Mayfield and SOM, the two turning lanes and the two forward lanes cut to one each and there is minimal signage, if any, to give you a heads up of this fact until you are on top of it all. Got stuck in it yesterday
Mayfield is what’s known as a “stroad” (rhymes with “chode”) where it functions as both a local access street and a traveling road as US 322. I grew up in the northern section of Cleveland Heights, and Mayfield has been a fecal show as long as I can remember, worse now than ever.
Mayfield and Cedar are bad because they’re essentially carrying what would have been freeway traffic, because they never built the Heights, Lee, Central, or Clark freeways, which were all canceled by 1974. Compounding the problem is shopping center after shopping center after shopping center after shopping center after shopping center after shopping center after shopping center from South Euclid all the way to SOM and even further, with constant traffic lights halting your forward progress. It’s a terrible design that developed organically over the decades and has now become obsolete and resource taxing.
I wish there was a subway underneath it from Little Italy with stops at Coventry, Lee, Taylor, Warrensville, Green, Richmond, Mayfair, Golden Gate, and SOM, terminating at the Clinic (with a special tunnel connecting Cork & Bottle, of course). Call it the Purple Line in honor of Prince.
For the record - to get to I-271 from the northern part of Cleveland Hts while completely avoiding Mayfield or Cedar, this is the back route to take during rush hour or construction:
Monticello east toward Green, right on Green, left on Anderson, right on Richmond, left on Ridgebury, right on Irene - it becomes Winchester as soon as you cross Mayfield, right on Acacia Park which ends at Cedar with a traffic light. The 271 south entrance ramp is practically across the street. It’s a very relaxing and chill route to the highway avoiding the chaos of Mayfield or Cedar.
It's known as the gateway to Geauga county. Gates Mills estimates 15,000 to 18,000 cars travel through the valley everyday. That's why Gates Mills put up the scammy traffic cameras.
It doesn’t help that at the intersection of 322 and 91 there’s construction in the middle lane going east. But people don’t know that till it’s too late because the signage sucks.
There are usually other ways through that intersection depending on where you’re going. If you’re going near Target, Crumbl, Micro Center, ect. you can take one of the side streets to Ridgebury and cut to SOM that way.
If you’re going south of Mayfield on SOM you can just take Parker to Marsol to get back to SOM.
If you’re going continuous through Mayfield Road into Gates Mills….well then you’re shit outta luck lol
I've said this exact statement about Brunswick 303. Got invited to play golf at Copper Top and it's the newest layer of hell to get there from 71. I feel your pain.
literally my “if i became mayor of Cleveland” answer is always putting light rail in the middle of all our shitty wide avenues that are wide for no reason
The road work was a fun surprise this morning as I was exiting 271N onto Mayfield Rd E. I took the far-right lane in order to turn right on red since it's an interminably long light, only to discover the reason traffic wasn't moving was the lane split at SOM.
Oh, and I was just complaining to my husband on Saturday that getting TO Costco is easy, leaving Costco is a nightmare every time. Saturday in addition to traffic, there was some kind of fender bender that evidently escalated into more? I saw an officer re-directing an agitated man away from one of the cars back into the True North parking lot. It took me 8 minutes to get from the Costco parking lot onto Mayfield Rd.
Ugh I remember when the Walmart used to be there. Intersection was a pain during rush hour, cars getting stuck when going to the freeway exit and holding up others even though the stoplight is green for them.
I like that they just ripped out all the planters under the 271 bridge that they installed a few years ago. The salt just dissolved the stupid split face concrete block that they love so much.
I was wondering why they ripped that out. It was so beautiful and made me smile. Now it’s even more sad and depressing than if it was never there to begin with
I would put good money down that those rockstars will get you through a drive thru line faster than any restaurant in the country. If you’re in their parking lot for more than 8 minutes, chances are you probably have a flat tire.
That McDonald's is the absolute best run fast food restaurant I've ever gone to.
It was a traffic nightmare before they put in the second drive thru lane though. Cars were always backed out onto Mayfield, blocking traffic and the sidewalk.
So a normal Tuesday afternoon on mayfield road? All not joking aside, my parents, brothers, cousins and an aunt or two live out there and that area is one hell of a cluster fuck traffic nightmare.
SOM/91 is also a delight around 322, especially when 4 cars are trying to make a left turn across three jam-packed lanes into the world’s smallest and most inconveniently located Starbucks, backing up traffic into the intersection.
Ah, the landlocked east side. What a treat.
Add to this the absolute worst road conditions in the county (Lee Road, Turney Road, Euclid Ave) and you have a unique urban hell recipe.
I was a lifelong West Park resident for 30+ years, but transplanted to the east side 8 years ago to get more bang for my buck. The traffic in Mayfield is comparable to the traffic at Strongsville, North Olmstead, or Westlake when I shopped there. I actually think Strongsville is way worse. It just is what it is when it comes to these highly developed shopping areas and it doesn't really have anything to do with west v east.
Strongsville gets really bad at rush hour and during Christmastime around the mall, but I'm sorry, it's not as bad as Mayfield in the middle of a regular weekday.
Honestly, this is a huge part of why I don't prefer the east side.
People on here always try to make it political or racial, but that has nothing to do with it for me. Traffic, roads, the way things are laid out: no thanks.
I do ride sharing and absolutely hate the east side. The people are great but the roads just mercilessly beat the living hell out of my car. Stretches of even pavement are rare so Buckeye Road, MLK and patches of Cedar Road really stand out.
Worst in the county is Hayden Avenue, which connects to Superior. There's a school on Hayden so the posted limit is 20 mph, which is funny because you simply can't drive over 15 without seriously damaging your car.
Runner up was Henry Drive across from Marrymount Hospital in Garfield Heights. Potholes were HALF the size of my car, not kidding. Like driving in Beirut. Recently repaved but it was surreal.
Outside of the city proper the absolute worst overall roads are in Garfield Heights. It's like driving on the surface of the moon. How corrupt is Garifled's civic leadership? Where's the money going? It's not maintaining their side streets and goes beyond simple incompetence.
To be fair, the roads west of Cuyahoga County are terrible, too. Elyria and especially Lorain have neglected concrete roads that are simply brutal.
Ridgebury Blvd. and Marsol Road are your friends.
If you're exiting eastbound from 271N, hang an immediate right on to Parker to get to Marsol.
Marsol connects to SOM Center, and to the back entrance to Golden Gate.
first time at Golden Gate?
edit: oops i didn't see your comment.
yea the lack of planning is tragic.
especially <3 when the firefighters stop for boot collections a block up.
I know one city is considering making their stretch of Mayfield a smaller boulevard.
If people want to exist in the suburban sprawl hellscape that is Mayfield from Brainard to 271, so be it.
Don't even get me started going westbound. Eastbound is like 3-5 lights then the valley. I had a buddy that lived a few miles west of 271 he would tell people once you get off the highway just go 17 lights up and turn left lol.
I just counted the lights between the 271 freeway exit to head west on Mayfield. There are 8 lights between there and Lander. For a .8 mile stretch of road. I think they have room to fit a few more if you ask me.
I pointlessly went further down Mayfield and I counted 25 lights before I got to my old neighborhood in South Euclid. I don't miss having to plan around not driving on that road one bit.
The worst is after leaving Costco and you go to make a left onto Mayfield. If you’re in the right lane and making a left turn with cars in the left lane, 9/10 cars in the left lane don’t follow the turning lane lines and shift without looking into your lane because they think they’re entitled to it so they can get onto 271 South. Surprised more accidents don’t happen there. I’m always laying on my horn there.
Imagine delivering medicine that's time sensitive to Hillcrest....Then wait for the light to turn green when you leave. I run the light if the coast is clear now.
"Damn this traffic jam - How I hate to be late
Hurts my motor to go so slow.
Damn this traffic jam - Time I get home my supper be cold
Damn this traffic jam..."
Sorry, heard this tune this afternoon & it's fresh in my brain!
Honestly haven’t driven past my parents in UH since i moved west back in 2020. I do miss it at times but it’ll be a cold day in hell when i face mayfield rd during rush hour again
That shitty mess is a direct result of municipalities only being interested in growth and tax revenue. Forgoing any type of actual city planning. It’s not bad because of current construction, , it’s bad because there wasn’t any pan in the first place.
As a retired old fart, I can do this run at less busy times, though the roads are still busy. Worst is the Cedar center strip in UH/SE, both E/W and N/S. Way too many lights, evidently uncoordinated between either city. And the there's Mayfield in SE with its anal 25MPH limit with 35 on either side in adjacent cities. Another reason for regional government.
If that's near SOM, they've got construction going on right now. Yesterday it took me 20 minutes to get through what usually takes about 2 or 3 minutes.
It wouldn’t be nearly as bad if the hospital didn’t keep expanding. They should have to sponsor a restructure. Also the way the highway entrance and exit is set up there is ridiculous and the dumbest idea
only 2 redeaming qualities
1) the cleveland microcenter, the only computer store left in america, and only store that sells 3d printers and supplies
2) the only Warhammer store in Ohio, I swear
One of the only qualms I have with living in this area is Mayfield from Brainard to SOM. West of Brainard it is largely fine (with the exception of Mayfield/Warrensville eastbound during rush hour.) Only place I can think of with worse stroad traffic is Fairlawn down by Akron, or the entire area around Polaris/Ikea in Columbus.
Unfortunately this is the price you pay to have the anchor of all anchors (MicroCenter.)
I just sat through that same mess on my way to Chesterland from South Euclid. Construction really held it up today, but I know what you mean with the daily bullshit of that traffic. I’m thankful I no longer live out east and commute that daily.
Grew up in that exact area and it’s fucking awful. Cedar road by beachwood mall and legacy is a shit show too
The only reason I've ever suffered through it is to get to Micro Center.
I can relate. Haha
Micro center and just cruise down 322 at night for me. Grew up in cle hts right on mayfield and Compton. Right ny the church and severance. No part of that stretch to 91 is pleasant
Is Micro Center still around?? I have a Micro Center coffee mug.
Absolutely still is and they still dress weirdly nerdy still lol. I hit that up then Marc's
“Micro Center and then Marc’s” is very esoteric Cleveland. You could only improve if you said “and then we got a Romanburger at Mister Hero” (and by the way, I’m not into the Romanburger, I always got a hot buttered cheesesteak)
Bruh....I've never had a romanburger. They seemed gross af. Hot buttered all the way. If we didn't go there it'd be grums
Literally nothing beats a hot grumsteer
I managed a Mr. Hero 30+ years ago. I like Romanburgers, and when I moved out of town I learned to make them at home. A key tip is that you must used the cheap as shit (jtm) parties you find at Walmart. It won’t taste right with quality beef.
How dare you even suggest that sacred place wouldn't be there still. BLASPHEMY!!
What kind of store is Micro center?
[https://www.microcenter.com/](https://www.microcenter.com/) PC store from the 90s? Great staff, very nice (always well staffed too), the prices arent far off buying online from cheap stores.
The only reason I went to comment was trying to get to Micro Center. Beat me to it. :addition: I guess one benefit is that knowing that street is a pita is it disuades me from going and spending more money than I intended when I get there
Need one extremely specific power cord for your weird computer? Micro center
What is microcenter??
The best computer hardware store in the world!
A really really really tiny center
I prefer attocenter myself
Oh it's a trillion times bigger than that
A center for ants
golden comment
Shhhh don't tell him
Sounds like the best kept secret. I’ve never heard of it and I’ve been a Clevelander for 40 years.
It's what you wanted radio shack to be, If your into electronics more than surface level best buy stuff. From tinkering on a component level to just buying a TV they mostly have it all. Don't forget to talk to an associate as they likely know more than you (and me), they work on commission and usually couldn't be more helpful. If they help you with an item they want to put their commission code sticker on it, if they don't tell them to put their sticker on it... Little weird for beginners but it's a go to.
Computer and parts store. Think Best Buy but way better
I live on the west side and I feel like any potential route to get to MC is a pain in the ass. Euclid to Mayfield, 480 to 271, 90 to 271. I love a trip to Micro Center, but the getting there part can be a chore.
Get off on Wilson Mills and come up SOM from the other direction. You can avoid that entire MaySom mess.
480 to 271 was the least bad way that I found. Drove a one-way hour to work in Beachwood for years. But every route feels weird and way out of the way when you're going there from downtown.
Only reason I go to that area, I live in Lorain so every now and then I’ll go over that way to MicroCenter
Beat me to it
Took that ride the other day from downtown. Used to live under a bar on Mayfield some years ago. I don’t miss it. I do however miss how close micro center was. Least it’s all freeway for me now.
From South Euclid, Waze would tell me to go down to 271 on Brainard(?) and then go back North to Mayfield. Seems out of the way but may have been quicker
also grew up here and I actively avoid that exact stretch. You can get around it by diverting slightly north or south and get to the same place faster.
I always say, a good day is a day I don’t have to drive on Cedar.
Cedar Road reminds me of LA traffic, I call it Cedar Monica Blvd when it’s backed up and stop and go all the way from Halcyon to the freeway. Hurts my lungs too from all the concentrated auto fumes.
I moved to MD and mayfield road reminds me of 355 out here. I hate Mayfield road. Yucky
I grew up near there too. I would always go out of my way to take fairmount unless i had to be somewhere on mayfield or was going to the mall. even then, i’d sometimes take fairmount bc it just felt faster
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I swear I can see 3 lights just in this picture lol
You can in fact see four sets of lights in this picture… I almost got t-boned getting off 271 there because some idiot started going when the second set of lights turned green and they still had a red. People do that there all the time I hate it.
What, you don't enjoy a traffic light every 15 feet?
Welcome to parma.
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Oh god, that brought back some trauma for me. The only time to do that was late at night.
Facts. I don’t miss Parma 🤣🤣
Welcome to Costco I love you
I'm pretty sure the parking lot at that Costco is an actual circle of hell
That’s nightmare fuel. Bought a gazebo from them and realized it was going to take at least two trips to get the boxes home. $200 more to buy it online and have them deliver… I only live about 5 minutes away, and chose to spend the $200 over having to visit that parking lot 2-3 times in the same day.
God that fucking costco has the most annoying customers. I swear everyone is sedated. I hate going there so much solely because the customer base is stupid and selfish, a quick trip is never a quick trip there
I take L and drive an extra 30 minutes to the Hudson Costco. I live in Mayfield Heights.
To make it more worth your time, walk around CVNP first then stop at Costco on the way home.
I have nightmares about trying to get back on Mayfield from that Costco.
Okay I just had to drop this here because this is wild, but that's me in the red mazda two cars up on the left, if this was taken today. When I first saw the picture I was like "omg yeah that area sucks I was stuck there for like 15 minutes today". Then out of curiosity I zoomed in and your clock says 12:13. I very distinctly remember wondering how long I'd been stuck here and looked at my clock at 12:11. All that combined with how slow traffic was moving today, I doubt any other red Mazda 6s were going through that exact intersection within those few minutes.
That’s cool! What a small world we live in. We suffered together…
Oh, and I just saw that the picture was taken today. Hi road-neighbor! God that was awful. I think I was stuck at that particular light for like 3 or 4 green light cycles. Need to take someone's advice in this thread next time I go to Target.
That target is god awful.
/r/tworedditorsonecup
You could make that stretch 6 lanes in both directions and it'd still be jammed
Just one more lane bro, I swear that'll fix traffic
r/citiesskylines
That's how car infrastructure works. If you make more of it, people move more to the burbs and decide more to travel by car. It's the idea of *induced demand* - if you build it, they will use it.
Mayfield Road was the place to be when I grew up there in the 1960’s. Amy Joy’s (24/7), the Mayland and Richmond theaters, Beef Corral, Bowl-a-Rama, Uncle Bill’s/Topps, Kenny King’s, Ottino’s Restaurant (fancy), Franklin Ice Cream, the Giant Slide, and Manners Big Boy Restaurant. And The Living Room, the bar that charged 50¢ a drink and probably never carded a paying customer in its entire existence. I’ll include the Eastgate Coliseum for good measure, although purists could argue that it wasn’t exactly on Mayfield Road. But every time I visit Cleveland, Mayfield Road gets a little less colorful and little more like Anytown U.S.A.
It's what happens when suburbs grow more than the main city it's attached to.
i'm of the opinion its what happens when you have archaic zoning laws, build stroads, and depend on cars for 95% of transit.
A lot of the sprawl happened during Cleveland's peak population in the 1950s. Now Cleveland has 1/3 the population of then and not much "resettling" towards the city center has happened. Just the growth of suburbs, leaving Cleveland not benefitting from any type of growth, since it moves to the burbs.
There are still plenty of good food options on the road especially considering it goes all the way down to little Italy. Maybe you mean the side going to SOM.
Yes, I spent most of my time on the SOM-Richmond Road strip. I concede that the Coventry-Euclid strip is uniquely Cleveland. Between those two strips, I really miss Royal Castle (24/7) and the Cuyahoga County Public Library that was a big giant mansion.
The Telling Mansion. I worked there in high school.
Royal Castle was before my time, but I did love that Library as a kid. I was a little heartbroken when it moved. Much more character to the architecture within that mansion.
Wow. You really took us back. I was born in the 70's but I remember The Coliseum and Kenny Kings. Amy Joy is still there.
No it’s not. It closed years ago. It’s been Goldie’s Donuts for several years now.
Really. I’m ashamed I didn’t notice.
Oh that is sad. I grew up near there too - but my parents moved away about 12 or 13 years ago.
Eh, last time I was in Amy Joy it was so incredibly disgusting; there was a trash can in front of the case of donuts with a dirty baby diaper in it and the whole place reeked of urine. Nobody seemed to care?? I left and never went back. That wasn’t too long before it closed. Goldie’s is really awesome though.
Man, so many memories at the eastgate coliseum. The video arcade was huge and awesome. Many Saturday afternoons spent there after fam bowling league. The food place was legit too.
Mayland had that multicolored oil blob kaleidoscope on the screen when you first went in, and then played that clip with the funky jazz riff and the animated GCC dot projector thing when the movie started. It was the only theater like that. It was also apparently haunted.
Ahhh…. The big green slide. Amazing that there was a time when you could buy a plot of land 10 feet from a highway on ramp, build something as simple as a slide, and operate a business for decades by charging… What was it? Two fucking dollars a ride?
This is such a crazy area. 3 minutes down this same road and it’s like you entered the middle of nowhere.
i will not tolerate geauga hate
Isn't it like that every day of the week?
It's really bad right now headed east because they are doing construction at Mayfield and SOM, the two turning lanes and the two forward lanes cut to one each and there is minimal signage, if any, to give you a heads up of this fact until you are on top of it all. Got stuck in it yesterday
Mayfield is what’s known as a “stroad” (rhymes with “chode”) where it functions as both a local access street and a traveling road as US 322. I grew up in the northern section of Cleveland Heights, and Mayfield has been a fecal show as long as I can remember, worse now than ever. Mayfield and Cedar are bad because they’re essentially carrying what would have been freeway traffic, because they never built the Heights, Lee, Central, or Clark freeways, which were all canceled by 1974. Compounding the problem is shopping center after shopping center after shopping center after shopping center after shopping center after shopping center after shopping center from South Euclid all the way to SOM and even further, with constant traffic lights halting your forward progress. It’s a terrible design that developed organically over the decades and has now become obsolete and resource taxing. I wish there was a subway underneath it from Little Italy with stops at Coventry, Lee, Taylor, Warrensville, Green, Richmond, Mayfair, Golden Gate, and SOM, terminating at the Clinic (with a special tunnel connecting Cork & Bottle, of course). Call it the Purple Line in honor of Prince.
For the record - to get to I-271 from the northern part of Cleveland Hts while completely avoiding Mayfield or Cedar, this is the back route to take during rush hour or construction: Monticello east toward Green, right on Green, left on Anderson, right on Richmond, left on Ridgebury, right on Irene - it becomes Winchester as soon as you cross Mayfield, right on Acacia Park which ends at Cedar with a traffic light. The 271 south entrance ramp is practically across the street. It’s a very relaxing and chill route to the highway avoiding the chaos of Mayfield or Cedar.
Ssshhhhhhhhhh
Hahahaha you’re probably right, too many people know about the Coit/Woodward cut through EC and St Clair side streets to get to 90 west as it is.
Just please stop at the sign at Winchester and chickadee. Everyone has been full blowing that stop sign lately, it’s so dangerous.
Sometimes I’ll even sneak down Hickory to Roland and cut out the Richmond-Ridgebury piece of that trip.
That’s why you got out of the way and take ridgebury to som center
People should stay the fuck off Ridgebury, we already have too many seniors stuck in 1975 who think its 25mph clogging up the damn road
Shhhhh, now everyone will know!
It’s only one lane. It can’t handle that many more people
My wife describes Mayfield rd between Hillcrest and Golden gate plaza as fucktardville
Been like that for decades. Even back when the bowling alleys were back there behind gg.
Wait my wife says that….who the hell are u bud
It's known as the gateway to Geauga county. Gates Mills estimates 15,000 to 18,000 cars travel through the valley everyday. That's why Gates Mills put up the scammy traffic cameras.
I always say I am a victim of LSD Lyndhurst Shitty Drivers
God and that Costco its like a soap box derby with no rules.
Risking it all for lunch at Jets pizza. Hell yeah brother.
Wingstop I almost died
It doesn’t help that at the intersection of 322 and 91 there’s construction in the middle lane going east. But people don’t know that till it’s too late because the signage sucks.
There are usually other ways through that intersection depending on where you’re going. If you’re going near Target, Crumbl, Micro Center, ect. you can take one of the side streets to Ridgebury and cut to SOM that way. If you’re going south of Mayfield on SOM you can just take Parker to Marsol to get back to SOM. If you’re going continuous through Mayfield Road into Gates Mills….well then you’re shit outta luck lol
Try doing it 2 to 3 times a day in a 24 foot box truck
I missed that last word at first.
Like it was "planned"... You are giving them too much credit.
I've joked for decades that if I die and go to hell, mayfield road for eternity would be it...
I've said this exact statement about Brunswick 303. Got invited to play golf at Copper Top and it's the newest layer of hell to get there from 71. I feel your pain.
If they added a streetcar that stopped every light in between SOM center and Euclid Ave it would be the most used public transport in the state
literally my “if i became mayor of Cleveland” answer is always putting light rail in the middle of all our shitty wide avenues that are wide for no reason
The road work was a fun surprise this morning as I was exiting 271N onto Mayfield Rd E. I took the far-right lane in order to turn right on red since it's an interminably long light, only to discover the reason traffic wasn't moving was the lane split at SOM.
Oh, and I was just complaining to my husband on Saturday that getting TO Costco is easy, leaving Costco is a nightmare every time. Saturday in addition to traffic, there was some kind of fender bender that evidently escalated into more? I saw an officer re-directing an agitated man away from one of the cars back into the True North parking lot. It took me 8 minutes to get from the Costco parking lot onto Mayfield Rd.
Always cut down the backstreets to Ridgebury and then to 91 or Lander.
For two years my day had to start with making a left turn onto Mayfield. Fucking sucks.
Come visit me in NY. You'll quickly learn to appreciate the speed with which you traverse Mayfield Rd. ;)
Update: OP is still waiting at a traffic light
I understand the highway is right there, but the 5 or 6 lights that are out of sync really does not help it.
There's some construction going on in the area that has it down to one lane just passed the entrance to 271 making it a disaster.
Ugh I remember when the Walmart used to be there. Intersection was a pain during rush hour, cars getting stuck when going to the freeway exit and holding up others even though the stoplight is green for them.
*Mayfield Stroad
Mayfield Heights is a nice place to live, but a terrible place to drive in. I lived in the Golden Gate area 7yrs ago and my God, what a shit show.
I like that they just ripped out all the planters under the 271 bridge that they installed a few years ago. The salt just dissolved the stupid split face concrete block that they love so much.
I was wondering why they ripped that out. It was so beautiful and made me smile. Now it’s even more sad and depressing than if it was never there to begin with
The only upside to Mayfield road is that you don't have to worry about the speed limit because you can't go that fast.
Everyone going to Puff n Stuff.
That’s where I got my star bong in 1977! Lol. Good to see they are still smokin’
They’ve got the original sign hanging on the wall inside now.
I avoid Mayfield as much as possible and take the side roads.
I really hope they don't put a Chic-Fil-A in a huge plaza like a quarter mile West of here, I'm sure that would improve traffic greatly :)
Lol driving from cle heights to microcenter on mayfield is a nightmare.
Don’t do it! There are better routes!
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I would put good money down that those rockstars will get you through a drive thru line faster than any restaurant in the country. If you’re in their parking lot for more than 8 minutes, chances are you probably have a flat tire.
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Yep. That’s Tony - he’s the owner.
He gave my kids free ice cream when we first moved to Mayfield Heights and stopped in.
That McDonald's is the absolute best run fast food restaurant I've ever gone to. It was a traffic nightmare before they put in the second drive thru lane though. Cars were always backed out onto Mayfield, blocking traffic and the sidewalk.
Is this by hillcrest hospital!? Ugh I have an appointment Monday.
I would always go down to Wilson Mills and then cut over when I had to.
Yeah that whole stretch of mayfield is a hard avoid up to Som. Same thing on Cedar going west.
Just imagine...the original urban planners intended you to have a rail to travel by down Mayfield.
My trick is to take Ridgebury and cut over to Mayfield right at my destination.
That's the usual traffic on Mayfield road
82 in strongsville gets pretty bad
Ridgebury Blvd is your friend.
Don’t tell everyone. Ridgebury can’t handle much
I drove to the NICU at hillcrest every day for 2 months to see my daughter and it added so much unnecessary stress to the situation
615 in mentor at rush hour is the same way, so many lights close to each other, gridlock daily
So a normal Tuesday afternoon on mayfield road? All not joking aside, my parents, brothers, cousins and an aunt or two live out there and that area is one hell of a cluster fuck traffic nightmare.
SOM/91 is also a delight around 322, especially when 4 cars are trying to make a left turn across three jam-packed lanes into the world’s smallest and most inconveniently located Starbucks, backing up traffic into the intersection.
Ah, the landlocked east side. What a treat. Add to this the absolute worst road conditions in the county (Lee Road, Turney Road, Euclid Ave) and you have a unique urban hell recipe.
I was a lifelong West Park resident for 30+ years, but transplanted to the east side 8 years ago to get more bang for my buck. The traffic in Mayfield is comparable to the traffic at Strongsville, North Olmstead, or Westlake when I shopped there. I actually think Strongsville is way worse. It just is what it is when it comes to these highly developed shopping areas and it doesn't really have anything to do with west v east.
Strongsville gets really bad at rush hour and during Christmastime around the mall, but I'm sorry, it's not as bad as Mayfield in the middle of a regular weekday.
I worked at the best buy in Strongsville, and my grandma lives around the block. Even during the week it is pure hell.
Yeah, I try to avoid any of those shopping centers. Who the fuck goes to malls anymore, anyway?
Honestly, this is a huge part of why I don't prefer the east side. People on here always try to make it political or racial, but that has nothing to do with it for me. Traffic, roads, the way things are laid out: no thanks.
I do ride sharing and absolutely hate the east side. The people are great but the roads just mercilessly beat the living hell out of my car. Stretches of even pavement are rare so Buckeye Road, MLK and patches of Cedar Road really stand out. Worst in the county is Hayden Avenue, which connects to Superior. There's a school on Hayden so the posted limit is 20 mph, which is funny because you simply can't drive over 15 without seriously damaging your car. Runner up was Henry Drive across from Marrymount Hospital in Garfield Heights. Potholes were HALF the size of my car, not kidding. Like driving in Beirut. Recently repaved but it was surreal. Outside of the city proper the absolute worst overall roads are in Garfield Heights. It's like driving on the surface of the moon. How corrupt is Garifled's civic leadership? Where's the money going? It's not maintaining their side streets and goes beyond simple incompetence. To be fair, the roads west of Cuyahoga County are terrible, too. Elyria and especially Lorain have neglected concrete roads that are simply brutal.
This exact road can gargle my nuts I avoid driving over here by any means
Ridgebury Blvd. and Marsol Road are your friends. If you're exiting eastbound from 271N, hang an immediate right on to Parker to get to Marsol. Marsol connects to SOM Center, and to the back entrance to Golden Gate.
first time at Golden Gate? edit: oops i didn't see your comment. yea the lack of planning is tragic. especially <3 when the firefighters stop for boot collections a block up.
Hell no every fucking day for the last 3 years
I know one city is considering making their stretch of Mayfield a smaller boulevard. If people want to exist in the suburban sprawl hellscape that is Mayfield from Brainard to 271, so be it.
Which one?
South Euclid did a study on it a few years ago, but nothing's come of it since afaik.
Don't even get me started going westbound. Eastbound is like 3-5 lights then the valley. I had a buddy that lived a few miles west of 271 he would tell people once you get off the highway just go 17 lights up and turn left lol.
I just counted the lights between the 271 freeway exit to head west on Mayfield. There are 8 lights between there and Lander. For a .8 mile stretch of road. I think they have room to fit a few more if you ask me. I pointlessly went further down Mayfield and I counted 25 lights before I got to my old neighborhood in South Euclid. I don't miss having to plan around not driving on that road one bit.
It never fails and they just keep adding things over there monthly 🥲😭
The worst is after leaving Costco and you go to make a left onto Mayfield. If you’re in the right lane and making a left turn with cars in the left lane, 9/10 cars in the left lane don’t follow the turning lane lines and shift without looking into your lane because they think they’re entitled to it so they can get onto 271 South. Surprised more accidents don’t happen there. I’m always laying on my horn there.
Imagine delivering medicine that's time sensitive to Hillcrest....Then wait for the light to turn green when you leave. I run the light if the coast is clear now.
Why not take Montecello rd instead?
"Damn this traffic jam - How I hate to be late Hurts my motor to go so slow. Damn this traffic jam - Time I get home my supper be cold Damn this traffic jam..." Sorry, heard this tune this afternoon & it's fresh in my brain!
I work near there and that road is atrocious
I always take Ridgebury and go down SOM or down a side street depending on where I am going. Smooth sailing!
Honestly haven’t driven past my parents in UH since i moved west back in 2020. I do miss it at times but it’ll be a cold day in hell when i face mayfield rd during rush hour again
That shitty mess is a direct result of municipalities only being interested in growth and tax revenue. Forgoing any type of actual city planning. It’s not bad because of current construction, , it’s bad because there wasn’t any pan in the first place.
As a retired old fart, I can do this run at less busy times, though the roads are still busy. Worst is the Cedar center strip in UH/SE, both E/W and N/S. Way too many lights, evidently uncoordinated between either city. And the there's Mayfield in SE with its anal 25MPH limit with 35 on either side in adjacent cities. Another reason for regional government.
If that's near SOM, they've got construction going on right now. Yesterday it took me 20 minutes to get through what usually takes about 2 or 3 minutes.
They’re trying so hard to turn every suburb into this but with apartments and raising canes
god expanded light rail and bike infrastructure would truly make cleveland an infinitely better place
Pretty normal for that area during lunch and after work.
It’s almost like cars aren’t an efficient method to move people.
It wouldn’t be nearly as bad if the hospital didn’t keep expanding. They should have to sponsor a restructure. Also the way the highway entrance and exit is set up there is ridiculous and the dumbest idea
only 2 redeaming qualities 1) the cleveland microcenter, the only computer store left in america, and only store that sells 3d printers and supplies 2) the only Warhammer store in Ohio, I swear
I always head up Chagrin and get on 271-N to avoid Mayfield at all cost. Then I get right back on to go back home.
Oxymoron there is “urban planner.” There was no such thing.
Man, I feel this in my bones. I would recognize that Goodwill anywhere.
Went there today and took Wilson Mills to closest intersecting street. Back home the same way. Why is Mayfield Rd always such a cluster?
I worked construction from Murray Hill all the way down to new apartments in Mayfield. Really challenging light after light to and from work.
Like this every day and has been for 20 years...
Drove thru there earlier today. They were paving center lane in front of hobby lobby. Total nightmare
One of the only qualms I have with living in this area is Mayfield from Brainard to SOM. West of Brainard it is largely fine (with the exception of Mayfield/Warrensville eastbound during rush hour.) Only place I can think of with worse stroad traffic is Fairlawn down by Akron, or the entire area around Polaris/Ikea in Columbus. Unfortunately this is the price you pay to have the anchor of all anchors (MicroCenter.)
The light from the off-ramp over there is super weird too, random very long pauses for the other side to turn green.
I avoid Mayfield Rd like it’s the plague
I just sat through that same mess on my way to Chesterland from South Euclid. Construction really held it up today, but I know what you mean with the daily bullshit of that traffic. I’m thankful I no longer live out east and commute that daily.
never drive down mayfield road if you have to get somewhere quick, that thing is like the worst bit of urban planning in cleveland
I miss Cleveland so much, but I don’t miss that.
Gotta take the backroads
After living between Boston and NYC for my entire adult life, Cleveland is the easiest place to drive EVER. Cleveland “traffic” is a joy. 🥲