State Route 18 (SR 18) is an east–west highway in northern
Ohio
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. It is the sixth longest state route in the state. Its western terminus is at the
Indiana
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state line near
Hicksville, where the route continues in Indiana as
State Road 8, and its eastern terminus is at
State Route 91 in
Akron.
History
State Route 18 was an original state highway that went from Norwalk to the
Pennsylvania
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state line. The route was extended to the Indiana state line in 1926. Until 1950, it was one of a very few Ohio routes to end at two state lines.
State Route 18's extension to the Indiana state line originally overlapped
State Route 2
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from the line to Hicksville. In 1940, State Route 18 was rerouted on the former
State Route 193 from the line to Hicksville.
In 1950, State Route 18's eastern terminus was moved to
Youngstown
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. Its old route to the Pennsylvania state line was recertified as
State Route 289.
In 1966, the route was routed along
State Route 8 and Interstate 80S (now
Interstate 76) to Youngstown. This series of concurrencies ended in 1971, and State Route 18 would eventually be routed along Market Street in Akron, to end at its current terminus.
In 1969, State Route 18 was routed concurrently with U.S. Route 20 along the Norwalk Bypass, a limited access freeway. Prior to the Bypass route, State Route 18 followed Main Street and Woodlawn Avenue (formerly known as Medina Street) and later followed Main Street and Akron Road through the city of
Norwalk (much of this alignment was already concurrent with US 20).
Before the rerouting of SR 18 via SR 8 and I-80S, SR 18 left West Market Street at Twin Oaks Drive in West Akron, where it went a few blocks east to North Portage Path, then jogged 1 block north to Memorial Parkway, which became Tallmadge Avenue east of the Cuyahoga River (before that, SR 18 continued along Market Street, then joined with SR 8 before reaching Tallmadge Avenue).
Tallmadge Road was a straight east/west road which became Mahoning Avenue as it approached the Youngstown area.
Most stretches of former SR 18 are still referred to as County Road 18 in Portage and Mahoning Counties.
SR 18 was realigned around
North Baltimore on a two-lane bypass completed in 2012.
The new bypass, which included a
roundabout
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at the eastern transition to the original route, was built to facilitate traffic to a new
CSX
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rail yard in
Henry Township. The old route through North Baltimore became signed as
SR 18 Business.
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Major intersections
SR 18 Business
State Route 18 Business (SR 18 Bus.) is a business route
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through the village of North Baltimore in southern Wood County. The route starts at a T-intersection
A three-way junction (or three-way intersection) is a type of road intersection with three arms. A Y junction (or Y intersection) generally has three arms of equal size coming at an acute or obtuse angle to each other; while a T junction (or T ...
with SR 18 in Henry Township and runs east into North Baltimore on Deshler Road and West State Street. In the center of the village, the route heads south onto South Main Street. SR 18 Bus. ends at a roundabout
A roundabout is a type of circular intersection or junction in which road traffic is permitted to flow in one direction around a central island, and priority is typically given to traffic already in the junction.''The New Shorter Oxford En ...
with SR 18 in the southern limits of the village.
SR 18 Bus. was created in November 2012 along what used to be SR 18 through North Baltimore. When SR 18 was rerouted on a bypass of the village in 2012, the old route became a signed business route.[ Most of the business route was designated by the Ohio Department of Transportation as SR 18-J though a portion of the route near its western terminus was designated SR 18-C.][ those designations have been removed and ODOT no longer maintains the business route.
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References
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018 018 may refer to
*Air Canada Flight 018, an airline flight from Hong Kong to Vancouver, Canada, illegally boarded by a Chinese man wearing a disguise in 2010
*Area code 018, a telephone area code in Uppsala, Sweden
*BMW 018, an experimental turboje ...
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