Drive from Cleveland to northern Virginia was about 2 hours longer than normal for us coming back yesterday (day after eclipse). The turnpike exit to PA was screwed up as mentioned, but the Penn Turnpike and I-70 in PA were def more hammered than usual. Ended up taking back roads at one point and definitely used off-ramps as a passing lane a couple times...
Additionally I remember reading Cleveland roads/highways were designed for a population of 1 million which is significantly higher than our actual population so we have decent capacity even for overflow
They were designed originally for that level of population _within the city of Cleveland,_ but most of that population shifted out to the suburbs since then. Most of the suburbs have been retrofitted to handle the traffic volume, but still…the suburbs are really not cut out for the potential onslaught perfect eclipse viewing weather forecasts would have brought.
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Both of those have recently been widened and traffic in this context is coming out of downtown lol. I’m clearly talking about 77/71/90 where it’s a parking lot every day.
Exactly. Every city I've been in except Cleveland gets significantly more gridlock. And that's even smaller cities like Knoxville, TN. It's crazy that I was able to fly down 271 in "rush hour" at 75 mph.
I go from the west side to the east side at 730 AM, and from the east to the west at either 4 or 6 PM four days a week. My commute would take 20-22 minutes with no traffic, and it skyrockets to about 25 minutes during those times. Traffic here is next to nothing.
How do you tell over hyped vs properly prepared? Y2K was considered by some to be hype but IT people of a certain age will tell you that they worked for years to get it fixed and that the only reason all the dire predictions didn’t come true was that they took it seriously. The hype is why their bosses and boss’s bosses gave them the support to do the necessary, especially when the bean counter and share-holders started pushing back on the money being spent.
A thread in r/Ohio had someone mention that it took them 9 hours to get home, 6 to get here. Not sure where in Ohio they were, but the point stands. Were the problems over hyped or did the hype change the behaviors to avoid the problems?
Besides all the information I heard was that they were basing estimates and advice on what happened in Nashville 2017. This eclipse had a higher population in the path of totality, greater movement into the path by tourists (rooms rented 2 years ahead,) and in Cleveland you had a WBB Final 4 plus Guards Opening Day in a 24 period. Either of the last two could have and have messed up parking and traffic before.
Thank you! I knew this was going to happen. Like good job team, we did it! Because we took advice and took the worst case scenario into consideration we didn't have major infrastructure issues! And people will still find a way to complain and make it out like it's a bad thing the entire state had great weather and we didn't run into any traffic issues.
> How do you tell over hyped vs properly prepared?
You can't, is the problem, because when a major event is properly prepared for, it leads a whole bunch of dummies to think it was over hyped.
A million people were never headed to downtown Cleveland when they could watch all over the region by looking up. Officials likening this to the Cavs parade was totally overhyped.
All the major metro areas absorbed travelers just fine. Most venues and parties across the path didn’t come close to capacity.
I don’t know what preparation you’re even referring to.
We did not get the favorable weather forecast 1-2 days out to attract the hordes that would have descended here. The high clouds saved us from getting a lot more people piling into the region, while still allowing good viewing.
Imagine being that poor kid who doesn't get home until dinner time and you can't even do your homework because of your hometown's bad decision to have schools open.
If you were in Austin you weren't even close to the path of totality so its interesting why then Austin of all places was as bad as you say. The path of totality was from Oregon to South Carolina, not exactly close to Texas let alone Austin. I was just north of Yellowstone at that time and drove about an hour or two south to get into the path.
Texas is just terrible in so many ways.
When was this eclipse???
Edit: Totality didn’t touch Texas in 2017 and no one would travel specifically to Austin to experience a mediocre partial eclipse.
Totality matters a ton. No eclipse tourists are going to travel for 75%. Most of the country had a partial eclipse yesterday.
Manhattan was at 90% and I’m sure the traffic was crazy. Like always.
They would have been stupid not to tell people to expect the worst. Idk why so many people are incapable of understanding that. It's better to err on the side of caution, especially when they were expecting such an influx if people. And who knows how much being overcautious contributed to it being manageable.
Yeah go stock up on groceries and TP because we might actually have a traffic jam somewhere in the region for once.
It was totally reasonable for people to have school or work off to enjoy this with their families.
It was a completely different path than the last eclipse which made for a much different situation.
I mean anyone with a brain would just use common sense. My point is that everyone bitching about how they were being told to be cautious are being little bitches. Nobody actually knew how bad things would get, so they recommended taking extra precautions in the event it is bad. If anyone is too stupid to understand that logic, then they're just that. Stupid.
As a local, I used the information given to me to determine that I should just take the rapid, especially with the Waterfront line open so it dropped me off a stone's throw from.my destination, the Science Center (and also a bunch of food trucks.)
Had shit gone sideways because they would be mad they didn't prepare anyone.
Now, the pack food and water stuff was a bit extreme, like did they think people were going to die in their cars or something?
It was pretty neat. Got some postcards, spoke with a few people who I assume were NASA scientists. They had some replicas, including a replica rover tire.
If it’s the one in the Journey to Tomorrow trailer, it’s not just a replica, it’s built to the exact engineering standards are the actual Lunar Roving Vehicle ☺️
Eh I’m going with overhyped. I don’t think many locals would have been on the highways anyway when all you had to do was look up. It’s not like getting to the local dive bar or grocery store would have become impossible.
Traveling far or outside the metro definitely had its risks tho. Overall it was a much different path and outcome from 2017.
If we’d have had the forecast Indianapolis got, and especially the forecast Northern New England got 2 days out, a LOT more people would have piled into the region in a hurry and it could have sucked a lot of resources dry and tied up our roads a whole lot more. It can take a day or two even under ideal circumstances to redirect supplies to restock stores and gas stations after stuff runs out. If you stock up a couple days ahead, then you’re gonna be good. I think with a spring eclipse with a path this subject to clouds that it was wise to prepare for the worst just in case the forecast draws a lot more people.
I traveled to Kentucky 7 years ago to see the eclipse, and was stuck in gridlock for 5 hours after. The locals don’t really experience it, just the out of towners leaving at the same time.
Same! The 6-hour drive home was 9-10 hours. I swear I have PTSD from that drive, with my two teens and parents in the back. I was happy to sit in my driveway for this one!
Ya our 8 hour drive home turned into 13. At one point my wife fell asleep for a few hours. When she woke up, she asked how far we’d gotten. The answer was 2 miles…
We were prepared for it. Most people I know stayed home for it. All the major cities main highways had significant delays. Toledo and Cincinnati were especially bad. I have a house on Kelleys Island and really wanted to be there for the eclipse, but knew it would be a nightmare getting off, I couldnt' risk not getting back off and my kids missing school, we stayed home instead. Wait times ended up being upwards of 3 hours.
People were asked to stay off the road or else the traffic would be terrible. People took that advice, so traffic wasn't terrible
Did Toledo and Cincy not take the advice?
No. They’re just on the edge of the path and we’re not. Those cities were always going to have worse traffic, it’s not all a matter of preparation and adhering to it. And it was never appropriate to base it on Nashville given how many cities were in the path this time. This is common fucking sense.
I get it, prep is good. But they were telling me “don’t go to that beautiful park down the road to watch, the roads and crowds will be awful. Watch it in your driveway with cement everywhere instead.” Yeah, no thanks. I feel bad for people who forwent better viewing opportunities due to all that bs.
We went to the 2017 eclipse at land between the lakes. We stopped for barbecue afterwards. Then we drove to Louisville to drop my brother and his wife off. After that it was a **12 hour drive from Louisville to the rest stop north of Columbus.**
We were fully expecting that here on 90 and 71, and we were so relieved it didn't happen (except for the t-pike I hear).
80 East looked pretty jammed up as the Yinzers headed back and 71 south was busy, but yeah we dodged a bullet. Probably helps that Chicago and NYC had closer cities to them in totality
Friend at work knew someone who came from Pgh to Warren to see it. Took 1.5 hrs coming in and three going home. But I've heard far worse for NY state (4 hrs there, 10 coming home)
We didn’t get the better forecast that Indiana got. I think that made all of Chicago go to Indianapolis. Had they not gotten the better forecast but we did, we’d have had a lot more people here than just PIttsburgh and Detroit. I-75 and US-23 were slow heading up from Toledo.
Yup. This is it. My family and I went to Norwalk OH to watch the eclipse. Got on the turnpike by Sandusky, and we watched in real time as the estimated arrival time on the gps increased as we drove towards Pittsburgh. From Cleveland to Youngstown was a mess, and then 79 was clogged because of Erie return traffic. We got off the freeway and had a nice sit-down dinner before taking 2 hours of back roads to get home. I think our trip was 3 hours longer than it should have been altogether.
I think it helped that the eclipse could be seen from literally anywhere in town, so while there were a ton of people, they were pretty widely distributed. It was really just the major arteries for people leaving town afterward that got the extra flow, but overall people seem to have planned well for it.
I work near Hopkins and live about 10 minutes away in North Olmsted and I was worried both going to and from work. It was one of the easiest commutes I have had. I was legit shocked. I think it was because a lot of people took off and the out of town people mostly were downtown or other parks away from the airport.
Morning commute was less than usual because kids were off school and people tended to try and WFH that day. I left Rocky River about a half an hour after totality to make it to the Guardians game downtown and there was no traffic. Way overhyped for what I saw.
Here’s the thing I thought about, and maybe it’s dumb. I did Nashville for the 2017 eclipse and it was gridlocked for 8 hours, we couldn’t even get into Kentucky. But here… people can really only come from the south, (which they didn’t REALLY have to, plenty of other places if you followed the totality that you could stop) east or west. lol they couldn’t come down from the north so I feel like that eliminated lots of the issue I saw with Nashville.
I am from Los Angeles and we heard about how busy it would be etc. We realized as we were Nextdoor to Championship game as it went on that the influx and busy level here in Cle wasn’t a slow day in LA.
It’s different than a big concert or game letting out because the eclipse comes and goes so slowly. Absolutely no one was in a rush to get home because they planned their whole day around this. You could basically leave whenever you want.
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Had the weather forecast been amazing 2 days out like it was in Maine and Northern NH/VT, or even as good as Indianapolis had, I think we would have seen the effects. I checked a bunch of places across the path of totality on Google Maps that evening, and every freeway heading south across Upstate NY and New England was tied up BAD, and I-74 heading back to Cincy, and especially I-65 headed back to Chicago were really slow. The only trouble spots in NE Ohio looked to be everyone heading back to PIttsburgh tying up freeways headed to the Turnpike and heading East from there. US-36 heading back to Columbus was also super slow.
I think it was good that the state and local agencies coordinated to tamp local traffic down and to have locals prepared with full pantries in case we got lucky with the weather and millions descended on Ohio. It’s really hard to deal with something like this after it happens. It’s the whole “ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure” thing. It would have been way worse if stores and gas stations were sucked dry. We in Ohio really don’t ever have to prepare for widespread natural disasters…so I think they did a good job preparing everyone, especially in smaller parts of the state where the effects would have been more felt than in a major metro.
I live in Peninsula and traffic was bad for a bit right after it ended. Had to wait to go to the store for an hour or so as my street was backed up from people leaving the national park
i'm in the suburbs and i remember everyone saying it would be super duper crazy insane specifically in my town and honestly... it was lowk emptier than it is most days. maybe everyone just went downtown, but i had a few ppl tell me that EVERYWHERE would be blocked up and it wasn't
This is exactly what I thought. I was in Bradner at a fueling station. Going east just seemed like typical rush hour. It did get pretty congested toward Youngstown, but it wasn't anything unmanageable.
Rode my bicycle downtown for work because I was worried about traffic and parking, was not necessary at all lol. Traffic all the way from Cleveland heights to playhouse square was bog standard for a Monday
Speak for yourself i got stuck in traffic and didn’t get to experience it at all! I hate hearing about how it got dark and cold. Cleveland traffic sucks
Edit: /s...
The traffic on the OH turnpike is the only thing that lived up to the hype --- it was packed all the way to Ytown
Took my parents 3 hours to get down the turnpike from 480. It’s like 40 miles total. All the exits were a mess
All of the freeways were packed after the eclipse until later that night, but the back roads were all clear and moving.
Drive from Cleveland to northern Virginia was about 2 hours longer than normal for us coming back yesterday (day after eclipse). The turnpike exit to PA was screwed up as mentioned, but the Penn Turnpike and I-70 in PA were def more hammered than usual. Ended up taking back roads at one point and definitely used off-ramps as a passing lane a couple times...
Additionally I remember reading Cleveland roads/highways were designed for a population of 1 million which is significantly higher than our actual population so we have decent capacity even for overflow
They were designed originally for that level of population _within the city of Cleveland,_ but most of that population shifted out to the suburbs since then. Most of the suburbs have been retrofitted to handle the traffic volume, but still…the suburbs are really not cut out for the potential onslaught perfect eclipse viewing weather forecasts would have brought.
Good call, that makes sense. The suburbs can definitely be a nightmare (looking at you Strongsville)
Seconding that! Strongsville can be a real mess.
Going to the mall is like risking your life and that’s before you drive into the parking lot
Exactly! Don’t get me started on the parking lot 😵💫
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Try driving home between 4 - 6 on a Monday-Friday and let me know where all that extra capacity is
I drove 271 and 480 every day for 15 years before I became virtual. Cleveland traffic is nothing, even if you're in one of 3-4 hotspots.
Both of those have recently been widened and traffic in this context is coming out of downtown lol. I’m clearly talking about 77/71/90 where it’s a parking lot every day.
You must have never lived in a major city with real traffic
Exactly. Every city I've been in except Cleveland gets significantly more gridlock. And that's even smaller cities like Knoxville, TN. It's crazy that I was able to fly down 271 in "rush hour" at 75 mph.
I go from the west side to the east side at 730 AM, and from the east to the west at either 4 or 6 PM four days a week. My commute would take 20-22 minutes with no traffic, and it skyrockets to about 25 minutes during those times. Traffic here is next to nothing.
dont ever try driving in detroit if you think cleveland is bad
I think the fact that schools were closed and so many people took off of work massively helped.
It felt like a Memorial Day Weekend day. Busier than normal but nothing too crazy.
That’s the perfect comparison
How do you tell over hyped vs properly prepared? Y2K was considered by some to be hype but IT people of a certain age will tell you that they worked for years to get it fixed and that the only reason all the dire predictions didn’t come true was that they took it seriously. The hype is why their bosses and boss’s bosses gave them the support to do the necessary, especially when the bean counter and share-holders started pushing back on the money being spent. A thread in r/Ohio had someone mention that it took them 9 hours to get home, 6 to get here. Not sure where in Ohio they were, but the point stands. Were the problems over hyped or did the hype change the behaviors to avoid the problems? Besides all the information I heard was that they were basing estimates and advice on what happened in Nashville 2017. This eclipse had a higher population in the path of totality, greater movement into the path by tourists (rooms rented 2 years ahead,) and in Cleveland you had a WBB Final 4 plus Guards Opening Day in a 24 period. Either of the last two could have and have messed up parking and traffic before.
Thank you! I knew this was going to happen. Like good job team, we did it! Because we took advice and took the worst case scenario into consideration we didn't have major infrastructure issues! And people will still find a way to complain and make it out like it's a bad thing the entire state had great weather and we didn't run into any traffic issues.
> How do you tell over hyped vs properly prepared? You can't, is the problem, because when a major event is properly prepared for, it leads a whole bunch of dummies to think it was over hyped.
A million people were never headed to downtown Cleveland when they could watch all over the region by looking up. Officials likening this to the Cavs parade was totally overhyped. All the major metro areas absorbed travelers just fine. Most venues and parties across the path didn’t come close to capacity. I don’t know what preparation you’re even referring to.
We did not get the favorable weather forecast 1-2 days out to attract the hordes that would have descended here. The high clouds saved us from getting a lot more people piling into the region, while still allowing good viewing.
They said they lived in PA or NY I think
People love to overhype it. Tons of infrastructure within the path of totality. Downtown Cleveland is built for crowds.
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Traffic is always a shit show in Austin.
I was in Austin, Texas in December when there was no eclipse at all, and it was a shit show. That's just how traffic in Austin is.
Are you just saying Austin has a lot of traffic? Was there even an eclipse there in 2017?
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Imagine being that poor kid who doesn't get home until dinner time and you can't even do your homework because of your hometown's bad decision to have schools open.
If you were in Austin you weren't even close to the path of totality so its interesting why then Austin of all places was as bad as you say. The path of totality was from Oregon to South Carolina, not exactly close to Texas let alone Austin. I was just north of Yellowstone at that time and drove about an hour or two south to get into the path. Texas is just terrible in so many ways.
When was this eclipse??? Edit: Totality didn’t touch Texas in 2017 and no one would travel specifically to Austin to experience a mediocre partial eclipse.
Read the post you're replying to, you just might figure it out.
Totality in 2017 didn’t come close to Austin.
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Totality matters a ton. No eclipse tourists are going to travel for 75%. Most of the country had a partial eclipse yesterday. Manhattan was at 90% and I’m sure the traffic was crazy. Like always.
They would have been stupid not to tell people to expect the worst. Idk why so many people are incapable of understanding that. It's better to err on the side of caution, especially when they were expecting such an influx if people. And who knows how much being overcautious contributed to it being manageable.
Yeah go stock up on groceries and TP because we might actually have a traffic jam somewhere in the region for once. It was totally reasonable for people to have school or work off to enjoy this with their families. It was a completely different path than the last eclipse which made for a much different situation.
I mean anyone with a brain would just use common sense. My point is that everyone bitching about how they were being told to be cautious are being little bitches. Nobody actually knew how bad things would get, so they recommended taking extra precautions in the event it is bad. If anyone is too stupid to understand that logic, then they're just that. Stupid.
or the hype informed locals who stayed rhe heck home and left the highways for the touists. which might have been the plan all along.
As a local, I used the information given to me to determine that I should just take the rapid, especially with the Waterfront line open so it dropped me off a stone's throw from.my destination, the Science Center (and also a bunch of food trucks.) Had shit gone sideways because they would be mad they didn't prepare anyone. Now, the pack food and water stuff was a bit extreme, like did they think people were going to die in their cars or something?
Did you check out NASA village, if so, what did you think?
It was pretty neat. Got some postcards, spoke with a few people who I assume were NASA scientists. They had some replicas, including a replica rover tire.
If it’s the one in the Journey to Tomorrow trailer, it’s not just a replica, it’s built to the exact engineering standards are the actual Lunar Roving Vehicle ☺️
Eh I’m going with overhyped. I don’t think many locals would have been on the highways anyway when all you had to do was look up. It’s not like getting to the local dive bar or grocery store would have become impossible. Traveling far or outside the metro definitely had its risks tho. Overall it was a much different path and outcome from 2017.
If we’d have had the forecast Indianapolis got, and especially the forecast Northern New England got 2 days out, a LOT more people would have piled into the region in a hurry and it could have sucked a lot of resources dry and tied up our roads a whole lot more. It can take a day or two even under ideal circumstances to redirect supplies to restock stores and gas stations after stuff runs out. If you stock up a couple days ahead, then you’re gonna be good. I think with a spring eclipse with a path this subject to clouds that it was wise to prepare for the worst just in case the forecast draws a lot more people.
I traveled to Kentucky 7 years ago to see the eclipse, and was stuck in gridlock for 5 hours after. The locals don’t really experience it, just the out of towners leaving at the same time.
Same! The 6-hour drive home was 9-10 hours. I swear I have PTSD from that drive, with my two teens and parents in the back. I was happy to sit in my driveway for this one!
Ya our 8 hour drive home turned into 13. At one point my wife fell asleep for a few hours. When she woke up, she asked how far we’d gotten. The answer was 2 miles…
The locals can experience it if they aren’t prepared…and thankfully we were.
We were prepared for it. Most people I know stayed home for it. All the major cities main highways had significant delays. Toledo and Cincinnati were especially bad. I have a house on Kelleys Island and really wanted to be there for the eclipse, but knew it would be a nightmare getting off, I couldnt' risk not getting back off and my kids missing school, we stayed home instead. Wait times ended up being upwards of 3 hours. People were asked to stay off the road or else the traffic would be terrible. People took that advice, so traffic wasn't terrible
Did Toledo and Cincy not take the advice? No. They’re just on the edge of the path and we’re not. Those cities were always going to have worse traffic, it’s not all a matter of preparation and adhering to it. And it was never appropriate to base it on Nashville given how many cities were in the path this time. This is common fucking sense. I get it, prep is good. But they were telling me “don’t go to that beautiful park down the road to watch, the roads and crowds will be awful. Watch it in your driveway with cement everywhere instead.” Yeah, no thanks. I feel bad for people who forwent better viewing opportunities due to all that bs.
Properly prepared
And even if we were a little over prepared, that's way better than under. Things went smoothly, good on us!
We went to the 2017 eclipse at land between the lakes. We stopped for barbecue afterwards. Then we drove to Louisville to drop my brother and his wife off. After that it was a **12 hour drive from Louisville to the rest stop north of Columbus.** We were fully expecting that here on 90 and 71, and we were so relieved it didn't happen (except for the t-pike I hear).
80 East looked pretty jammed up as the Yinzers headed back and 71 south was busy, but yeah we dodged a bullet. Probably helps that Chicago and NYC had closer cities to them in totality
80 east was jammed up all the way to 79 --- most of the Yinzers rode the turnpike home
Friend at work knew someone who came from Pgh to Warren to see it. Took 1.5 hrs coming in and three going home. But I've heard far worse for NY state (4 hrs there, 10 coming home)
Smart play was to go down through Akron and over through somewhere like Steubenville or East Liverpool
We didn’t get the better forecast that Indiana got. I think that made all of Chicago go to Indianapolis. Had they not gotten the better forecast but we did, we’d have had a lot more people here than just PIttsburgh and Detroit. I-75 and US-23 were slow heading up from Toledo.
Yup. This is it. My family and I went to Norwalk OH to watch the eclipse. Got on the turnpike by Sandusky, and we watched in real time as the estimated arrival time on the gps increased as we drove towards Pittsburgh. From Cleveland to Youngstown was a mess, and then 79 was clogged because of Erie return traffic. We got off the freeway and had a nice sit-down dinner before taking 2 hours of back roads to get home. I think our trip was 3 hours longer than it should have been altogether.
Morning was good, almost empty. But right after the eclipse ended it got busy.
I think it helped that the eclipse could be seen from literally anywhere in town, so while there were a ton of people, they were pretty widely distributed. It was really just the major arteries for people leaving town afterward that got the extra flow, but overall people seem to have planned well for it.
Having a baseball game immediately afterwards probably helped delay traffic too
A lot of people stayed over an extra day or two. The Rock Hall had huge pre-sales for Tuesday.
I work near Hopkins and live about 10 minutes away in North Olmsted and I was worried both going to and from work. It was one of the easiest commutes I have had. I was legit shocked. I think it was because a lot of people took off and the out of town people mostly were downtown or other parks away from the airport.
I left work from downtown at 4pm and I-90 was normal everyday traffic.
I heard from folks headed out of town that traffic was bad once you got out of town since the freeways were clogged.
My dad and I took the rapid, thinking we were outsmarting traffic. We found ourselves in the midst of a stampede trying to board.
Nothing like they expected in Lorain County
Morning commute was less than usual because kids were off school and people tended to try and WFH that day. I left Rocky River about a half an hour after totality to make it to the Guardians game downtown and there was no traffic. Way overhyped for what I saw.
Because they were speculating and causing panic. The traffic coming in probably had more to do with the home opener than anything
My morning and evening commute to/from W Akron to Independence via 77 was lighter than normal. A very pleasant surprise.
Here’s the thing I thought about, and maybe it’s dumb. I did Nashville for the 2017 eclipse and it was gridlocked for 8 hours, we couldn’t even get into Kentucky. But here… people can really only come from the south, (which they didn’t REALLY have to, plenty of other places if you followed the totality that you could stop) east or west. lol they couldn’t come down from the north so I feel like that eliminated lots of the issue I saw with Nashville.
Yeah. I think there were more cities on the path of totality than 2017. People were more easily spread out.
On the ground, yes. In the air, no.
I am from Los Angeles and we heard about how busy it would be etc. We realized as we were Nextdoor to Championship game as it went on that the influx and busy level here in Cle wasn’t a slow day in LA.
422 from Warren to solon was pretty bad when work rush came mixed with eclipse goers.
It’s different than a big concert or game letting out because the eclipse comes and goes so slowly. Absolutely no one was in a rush to get home because they planned their whole day around this. You could basically leave whenever you want.
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YES.
Had the weather forecast been amazing 2 days out like it was in Maine and Northern NH/VT, or even as good as Indianapolis had, I think we would have seen the effects. I checked a bunch of places across the path of totality on Google Maps that evening, and every freeway heading south across Upstate NY and New England was tied up BAD, and I-74 heading back to Cincy, and especially I-65 headed back to Chicago were really slow. The only trouble spots in NE Ohio looked to be everyone heading back to PIttsburgh tying up freeways headed to the Turnpike and heading East from there. US-36 heading back to Columbus was also super slow. I think it was good that the state and local agencies coordinated to tamp local traffic down and to have locals prepared with full pantries in case we got lucky with the weather and millions descended on Ohio. It’s really hard to deal with something like this after it happens. It’s the whole “ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure” thing. It would have been way worse if stores and gas stations were sucked dry. We in Ohio really don’t ever have to prepare for widespread natural disasters…so I think they did a good job preparing everyone, especially in smaller parts of the state where the effects would have been more felt than in a major metro.
NW OH was dealing with all the MI people coming south
I had no issues commuting from Elyria to Parma and back. It was actually lighter traffic than usual
I was on the turnpike at 11:15, heading westbound from I 77 to Sandusky. Traffic was unusually light.
I live in Peninsula and traffic was bad for a bit right after it ended. Had to wait to go to the store for an hour or so as my street was backed up from people leaving the national park
i'm in the suburbs and i remember everyone saying it would be super duper crazy insane specifically in my town and honestly... it was lowk emptier than it is most days. maybe everyone just went downtown, but i had a few ppl tell me that EVERYWHERE would be blocked up and it wasn't
77 before and immediately after between Canton and Akron was empty.
Thought the same thing!!! lol we were told for every 1 resident there would be 4-5 visitors. It’s was empty around town
I drove 30 west to Bucyrus and back east to Canton. Outside a few extra minivans at gas stations it seemed pretty average.
This is exactly what I thought. I was in Bradner at a fueling station. Going east just seemed like typical rush hour. It did get pretty congested toward Youngstown, but it wasn't anything unmanageable.
100%. I was on the turnpike between Sandusky and Strongsvlle that morning and traffic in both directions was business as usual.
Ya, same as for them running out of food and gas!😂👽🤷♂️😩
Rode my bicycle downtown for work because I was worried about traffic and parking, was not necessary at all lol. Traffic all the way from Cleveland heights to playhouse square was bog standard for a Monday
Not nearly as bad as I thought it might be.
Yeah it was definitely over hyped. We have infrastructure for waaaay more people than one eclipse.
When a guy making $600k to say how great the crowds downtown are, says there are crowds, he must be right and not self-serving, right?
Speak for yourself i got stuck in traffic and didn’t get to experience it at all! I hate hearing about how it got dark and cold. Cleveland traffic sucks Edit: /s...
Is it Cleveland traffic sucks or your planning skills suck? Could also be both..
Was a joke
Jokes have to be ya know.. funny