COLUMBUS, Ohio — A federal-state power struggle over a proposed new interchange on Interstate 71 in Northeast Ohio remained in limbo Monday as the state legislature headed toward a long summer recess after Wednesday.
The stalemate leaves it unclear whether the state will try to ignore federal policy that empowers NOACA, the Northeast Ohio Areawide Coordinating Agency, to determine whether a new Boston Road exit would solve congestion along I-71 in the Cleveland suburb of Strongsville.