Editing Akron, Ohio (section)

==Transportation==
===Airports===
[[File:Akron Fulton International Airport (36221818930).jpg|thumb|[[Akron Executive Airport]]]]
The primary terminal that airline passengers traveling to or from Akron use is the [[Akron–Canton Airport]], serving nearly 2 million passengers a year. The Akron-Canton Airport is a commercial [[airspace class|Class C]] airport located in the city of [[Green, Ohio|Green]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.akroncantonairport.com/uploads/CAK_WelcomePage_FINAL.pdf |archive-date=December 9, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081209090219/http://www.akroncantonairport.com/uploads/CAK_WelcomePage_FINAL.pdf |title=Welcome to the Akron-Canton Airport!}}</ref> roughly {{convert|10|mi|0|abbr=on}} southeast of Akron operated jointly by [[Stark County, Ohio|Stark]] and [[Summit County, Ohio|Summit]] counties. It serves as an alternative for travelers to or from the Cleveland area as well. [[Akron Executive Airport]] is a [[general aviation]] airport located in and owned by the City of Akron that serves private planes. It first opened in 1929 and has operated in several different capacities since then. The airport had commercial scheduled airline service until the 1950s and it is now used for both cargo and private planes.<ref name="Akron, Ohio: Akron Fulton Airport"/>
It is home of the [[Goodyear Airdock|Lockheed Martin Airdock]], where the Goodyear airships, dirigibles, and blimps were originally stored and maintained. The Goodyear blimps are now housed outside of Akron in a facility on the shores of Wingfoot Lake in nearby [[Suffield Township, Portage County, Ohio|Suffield Township]].

===Railroads===
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[[File:Akron Northside Station.jpg|thumb|Akron Northside Station]]
Akron Northside Station is a train station at 27 Ridge Street along the [[Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad]].<ref name="Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad, Akron Northside Station In Akron, Ohio - Ohio.com"/>

Because of the city's large rubber industry, Akron was once served by a variety of railroads that competed for the city's freight and passenger business. The largest were the [[Baltimore and Ohio Railroad]], [[Erie Railroad]], and the [[Pennsylvania Railroad]]. Smaller regional railroads included the [[Akron Canton and Youngstown Railroad|Akron, Canton, and Youngstown Railroad]], Northern Ohio Railway, and the Akron Barberton Belt Railroad.<ref>{{Sanders-Akron}}</ref>{{page needed|date=August 2015}} Today, the city is served by [[CSX Corporation]], the Wheeling & Lake Erie Railroad, and their subsidiary Akron-Barberton-Cluster, which operate out of the W&LE's Akron Yard near Brittain Road on the eastern end of the city.

From 1891 to 1971 passenger service to points throughout the Midwest, as well as Washington and New York City, was provided at [[Akron Union Station]].<ref>Camp, Mark J. 'Railroad Depots of Northeast Ohio,' Arcadia Publishing, 2007, p. 27.</ref> The last legacy passenger trains were the [[Erie Lackawanna]]'s ''[[Lake Cities (Erie Railroad train)|Lake Cities]]'' (ended, 1970) and the B&O's ''[[Shenandoah (B&O train)|Shenandoah]]'' (ended, 1971).<ref>{{cite web |website=Trains.com |title=Passenger trains on the eve of Amtrak |url=http://ctr.trains.com/~/media/import/files/pdf/f/7/7/passenger_trains_operating_on_the_eve_of_amtrak.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120826050444/http://ctr.trains.com/~/media/import/files/pdf/f/7/7/passenger_trains_operating_on_the_eve_of_amtrak.pdf |archive-date=August 26, 2012}}</ref> There is currently no passenger rail transportation with the elimination of Amtrak's former ''[[Three Rivers (train)|Three Rivers]]'' service in 2005. The nearest [[Amtrak]] service is in [[Alliance, Ohio]] or Cleveland.

===Bus and public transit===
[[File:AkronRTA.jpg|thumb|right|Robert K. Pfaff Transit Center]]
Public transportation is available through the [[METRO Regional Transit Authority]] system, whose fleet of over 200 buses and trolleys operates local routes and commuter buses into downtown Cleveland. [[Stark Area Regional Transit Authority]] (SARTA) also has a bus line running between [[Canton, Ohio|Canton]] and Akron and the [[Portage Area Regional Transportation Authority]] (PARTA) runs an express route connecting the [[University of Akron]] with [[Kent State University]].<ref name="Akron Express"/>
Metro RTA operates out of the Robert K. Pfaff Transit Center on South Broadway Street. This facility, which opened in 2009, also houses inter-city bus transportation available through [[Greyhound Lines]].<ref name="Solar panels make Akron's new transit center a leader in Ohio"/>

===Freeways===
Akron is served by two major interstate highways that bisect the city. Unlike other cities, the bisection does not occur in the Central Business District, nor do the interstates serve downtown; rather, the [[Ohio State Route 59|Akron Innerbelt]] and to a lesser extent [[Ohio State Route 8]] serve these functions.
* [[Interstate 77]] connects [[Marietta, Ohio|Marietta]] and [[Cleveland]], Ohio. In Akron, it has 15 interchanges, four of which permit freeway-to-freeway movements. It runs north–south in the southern part of the city to its intersection with [[Interstate 76 (east)|I-76]], where it takes a westerly turn as a concurrency with Interstate 76.
* [[Interstate 76 (east)|Interstate 76]] connects [[Interstate 71 (Ohio)|Interstate 71]] to [[Youngstown, Ohio]], and farther. It runs east–west and has 18 interchanges in Akron, four of which are freeway-to-freeway. The East Leg was rebuilt in the 1990s to feature six lanes and longer merge lanes. The concurrency with Interstate 77 is eight lanes. The Kenmore Leg is a four-lane leg that is slightly less than two miles (3&nbsp;km) long and connects to Interstate 277.
* [[Interstate 277 (Ohio)|Interstate 277]] is an east–west spur that it forms with [[U.S. Highway 224|US 224]] after I-76 splits to the north to form the Kenmore Leg. It is six lanes and cosigned with U.S. 224.
* The [[Ohio State Route 59|Akron Innerbelt]] is a six-lane, {{convert|1.78|mi|km|adj=on}} spur from the I-76/I-77 concurrency and serves the urban core of the city. Its ramps are directional from the interstates, so it only serves west side drivers. ODOT is considering changing this design to attract more traffic to the route. The freeway comes to an abrupt end near the northern boundary of downtown where it becomes Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. The freeway itself is officially known as "The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Freeway". The freeway was originally designed to connect directly to State Route 8, but plans were laid to rest in the mid-1970s because of financial troubles.
* [[Ohio State Route 8]] is an original state highway that is a limited access route that connects Akron's northern suburbs with Interstates 76 and 77. State Route 8's southern terminus is at the central interchange, where it meets I-76 and I-77. The second freeway in Akron to be completed, it went through a major overhaul in 2003 with new ramps and access roads. In 2007 ODOT began a project to upgrade the road to interstate highway standards north of Akron from [[Ohio State Route 303|State Route 303]] to I-271, providing a high speed alternative to Cleveland.<ref name="Akron Innerbelt Integration Initiative - History"/>