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For as much as one of you said docking is I would expect access to a back way in also.

Chausee Land: Now included with your FastLane+.

Always wondered, can residents bypass the toll booths and cut through the parking lot to get from the causway to the chausee? Seems a pain to have to drive around to get over by 250 and all the stores.

AFAIK residents (used to) get a sticker for their cars.

Unless its changed they got a keycard that opened the gate in the resident lane, farthest right lane next to the tollbooth.

ImpulsivePhoenix said:

Nothing beats going through the willow trees at the beginning with the view of Cedar Point to the left. Certainly more appealing than seeing the low end motels on Cleveland road.

I remember when those trees were planted my husband and I were talking earlier this season about how they've turned into a breezy, green tunnel so different from the wispy sticks they were when they stuck them in there.

djDaemon said:
The last time I took Chausee I felt terrible for the locals considering the amount of traffic there was. I vowed to not take that road anymore.

Good for the residents that they're supposedly getting a gate.

Are you kidding?

The 'inconvenience' of Cedar Point adds $200,000 to $400,000 to the value of each of their properties, plus the pleasure of having CP pay for road improvements to start with. If I was CP I'd build a concrete block wall at the north end of the chausee with a gate requiring a $500/year non-transferable car window sticker to pass through CP property to get to Sandusky.

And who owns the part of the chausee between the lake road and the houses?

Since CP has been maintaining and paying taxes on that Cleveland rd. fronting property, it's not like the homeowners have an adverse possession case, and surely Cedar Point has an easement along the length of the chausee.

I'm sure it's frustrating but they all knew when they bought those houses that there was an amusement park at the end of their street so I can't say I feel "sorry" for them. It's not like the traffic would have been a surprise.

Always assumed most people just bought those homes to be summer rental properties. The amount of houses for sale on that street is always in the double digits when you drive down it. And to feel bad for anyone who buys a house on a street with a long established amusement park at the end is a bit silly. It's not like this is some quiet golf community that all the sudden had a park pop up overnight. Anyone on that street knew what they were getting into.

We typically take Cedar Point Road several times throughout the year. Granted, our trips to the point are typically Spring and Fall so I have not seen what can happen on that road on a busy summer day, but it's always been so quiet and void of traffic when we travel down it.

I love driving through those willow trees and looking at the houses evolve. For some of those properties there seems to be a consistent "well you built that but look what we just built!" competition going on...it's always impressive to see what can be done in such a cramped space. And then you have the way-over-done million-dollar homes juxtaposed with the more humble houses.

I'll remember it as a relaxing, slow-paced scenic way to meander to the park, and if this is true, I'll miss taking the "back-way" (as my girls call it).

I think since it isn't the main entrance to Cedar Point the residents have the right to bring up the annoyance of traffic congestion on the road and to ask for something to be done about it. Even if there weren't houses along that stretch, it still isn't a road that should be handling the amount of traffic it does. They built the causeway to support that traffic so there isn't a reason that the Chausee should be traveled on as much as it is. That road isn't the entrance to Cedar Point so I wouldn't care if they did gate it and would understand completely if they did.

When there is an unforseen incident on the causeway, such as power poles down or water main break or car accident it it nice to have an alternate route for ingress & egress, But, if they do restrict non-resident traffic I imagine they would have a provision for emergency access.

There have been days where we were leaving that way and traffic was backed up all the way to the 4 mile bend by the willows.

Next capital improvement project: widen causeway to 6 lanes each direction!

Having the Chaussee as an emergency route is a bonus since most peninsulas or islands only have one way on/off.

Exactly. If need be, they could easily open it up as an emergency conduit.

Even though I will miss it, I do agree that the people who live there certainly have a right to ask that something can be done. We'll survive.

I would guess that the bulk of the traffic is at night. Similar to others, our visits our in the spring and fall and I have never had any issue with traffic coming into the park this way. At most a few cars in view on the road. I have learned when leaving the park that this is not the way to go and I always take the causeway. Not that traffic gets backed up on the chausse, but my luck when trying to turn left onto Route 6 is usually bad and I end up sitting for few minutes. So any advantage that I might have gained is now lost.

I have always wondered who this private road belongs to. Rugrats - you mention that CP takes care of the road. Is that right? Does that mean than they own it?

The Chausee is beautiful. It'll be a shame if they close it.

The CP sign shop is in charge of maintaining and replacing all the road signs on that road. They had replaced the signs with reflective sign backings in the off season 2015.

On a side note: some disgruntled Pipe St. Residents seem to think the ‘No Busses’ signs on Pipe St. Apply to RVs as well, which is clearly not the case. Someone had screamed at us when driving down the road last July.

^Remington and Pipe are our typical routes in. We used to take that overpass over the train tracks, but we rarely do that anymore.

Shades said:
I have always wondered who this private road belongs to. Rugrats - you mention that CP takes care of the road. Is that right? Does that mean than they own it?

I think that Cedar Point does own the Chausee. It was built by Cedar Point and was the only road into the park until the Causeway was built in the late 50s. A long time ago, Cedar Point had free parking but you had to pay a $.50 toll. That fee was charged if you took the Chausee or Causeway. Not sure if it is still set up this way, but a subsidiary company wholly owned by CP called the Cedar Point Bridge Co. collected the tolls and maintained the road. But in any case, the road is owned by CP.

If that is the case why do the residents have a say in who can use the road? There must be something in it for the park to keep people from coming into the park from this direction.