By referendum, the people said they wanted a subway built from Tower City (downtown) to University Hospital (several miles south-east). But the county engineer preferred freeways, so he tied it up in red tape until after the next election and the whole thing just died.

There are pages and pages of plans for subways in Cleveland, but the most amazing part is that there used to be one. It was supposed to be the first phase. But it ran on the lower deck of a bridge. And the upper deck was getting a lot of traffic. So the county engineer (yes, the same one) had the tracks ripped out and paved the lower deck to relieve congestion.

http://www.urbanohio....php?topic=2726.0

Cars kept crashing into the support piers, so the lower deck was sealed. Yes, they killed the subway to relieve congestion on one bridge, and it didn't even work.