Travel on Rte 2

Coastern3rd said:
Actually, you should be careful in general. Not just around cops...

I've been:
Hit by a drunk driver (twice)
Rear ended by some idjit who lost control doing 80 in a honda civic
Clipped in the front by someone who refused to use signals
Blown a tire at 71mph on I-75
Dropped a drive shaft in a mustang
Ran over a Muffler and blown 3 tires.
Hit a dead deer in the middle of I-75 causing over 2k worth of damage to my girls new car.

Stupid crap like that can happen to anyone... Just be careful in general.

Dude,

Please post when you are coming to CP so I can stay home! You have some serious BAD KARMA! You must have really been bad in a previous life.

:)

-Tambo

HAHAHA... yeah.. I'll be heading down nice and early Sunday morning and leaving well after the park closes. So you have pleanty of time inbetween 7:00 am & 10:30 pm to get your sunday driving in.

Ralph, you make a great point about Rt. 2 not being a straight line like the turnpike is, therefore it keeps you more awake and on your toes. Plus its much funnier to drive, I hate driving straight all day with no scenery. Rt. 2 has a nuclear power plant, camp perry, Edison Bridge, Crane Creek, etc.

Route 2 is scenic. The turnpike is boring. That's enough for me.

-- Harley

Not that I heard of.

However, a section of Route 2 near Bono, Ohio (West of Port Clinton) was closed this weekend for repair. The road was being repaved, widened and rumble strips being added. The re-routing took you down Route 163 (Lake Erie Circle Tour..and the "prettiest Sunday drive" route I think!!) through Port Clinton and then back to Rte 2 East.

It was scheduled to re-open mid-morning today.

I just took Varney Rd. down to 579 and bypassed Bono altogether last weekend. But I figured after my detour through Toledo shaved 15 minutes off the "recommended" Ohio detour from hell that I could find any detour better than the state.

Is 280 open and running good or do you have to tour the great streets of Toledo?

280 is closed for the entire summer, and probably the fall as well.

I drove up to CP yesterday morning (Sunday June 18th) at about 8:30am on Route 2 and was the only car on the road for miles...it was perfect. Didn't even get slightly traffick-y until I actually hit 250.

This afternoon, 12:30pm'ish, there was a lot of semi/18 wheeler traffic and the area around Camp Perry tends to get very treacherous.

We usually take Rt.2 because it's more interesting. But with I280 closed. We took the turnpike last time. Anyone know when 280 will open again. Or better yet when it will be finished.

According to lookuptoledo.org, Mid 2007.

Actually if you take a combination of both Rte 163 "and" Rte 2,..it is VERY INTERESTING and scenic. That's the way to go in the summer time if you don't have to worry about time restraints. It's very gorgeous along the "Lake Erie Circle Tour".