Veterans of the Battle of Boston Road were among the 145 people who showed up on a Wednesday night in Strongsville a few weeks ago to talk traffic.

I was there, as the Battle of Boston Road has been a story I've been following for more than two years. Traffic studies and infrastructure proposals sound boring and benign. But I was struck by how deeply this ongoing war against traffic has impacted the residents of Strongsville and its neighbor, Brunswick.

This battle is leaving scars.

Sue Mazzola was there. She lives on the north, or Strongsville, side of Boston Road, a two-lane, east-west road that divides the Cuyahoga County city from Brunswick, its Medina County neighbor to the south.

Mazzola’s home is close enough to Interstate 71 that she feared it would be lost to a state-mandated

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