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Emmy Award-winning Feagler & Friends is a lively, weekly half-hour television discussion of local and national issues impacting lives in Northeast Ohio. Hosted by award-winning journalist and former Plain Dealer columnist, Dick Feagler, Feagler & Friends explores the various issues behind today's news. With a changing ensemble of "friends" ranging from journalists to community and political leaders, Feagler & Friends takes on issues from many different perspectives. Always entertaining and never boring, Feagler & Friends is the program for people "in the know" in Northeast Ohio.

Feagler & Friends airs:
WVIZ/PBS: Fridays - 8:30 PM, Sundays - 11:30 AM
The Ohio Channel: Mondays - 1:30 PM | 9:30 PM, Tuesdays - 5:30 AM

Sunday, April 26, 2009

Topics: Economy, Politics, Other
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A special edition of Feagler & Friends

Innerbelt: More Harm Than Good? Cleveland’s I-90 Innerbelt carries an estimated 100,000 vehicles each day. It’s not only one of the busiest stretches of road in the state, it’s one of the most dangerous with accident rates far exceeding most thoroughfares. So the Ohio Department of Transportation says the 50-year-old roadway is in need of an extensive makeover, one that’s likely to begin later this year with the repairs on the corroding Innerbelt bridge. But the Innerbelt redesign goes well beyond the bridge. It envisions closing a number of existing interchanges such as the I-90 off-ramp at Carnegie Avenue and limiting the number of downtown access points to I-77. Innerbelt access roads would also be extensively redesigned. Critics say it’s a formula for gridlock, it will hamper the drive for redevelopment by making downtown access more difficult, and the road’s footprint will overwhelm a key section of downtown. Critics also claim their concerns have fallen on deaf ears at ODOT. Today, we’ll hear their concerns.

Guests:
Thomas Bier, executive-in-residence, Cleveland State University Levin College of Urban Affairs.
James Haviland, executive director, MidTown Cleveland, Inc.
Steven Litt, art and architecture critic, The Plain Dealer

Additional Information

ODOT's Innerbelt Plan

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