The Ohio Department of Transportation announced in December that agreements have been reached on a federally funded $50 million series of road, tunnel, and intersection improvements for Cleveland’s West Shoreway, a six-lane limited-access highway, much of which will eventually be converted to a boulevard. Work will begin in 2010 on the road, tunnel, and intersection changes, which will give Cleveland’s West Side neighborhoods better access to existing parkland and Lake Erie. The project’s second phase, expected to begin in 2013 or later, would turn much of the highway into a boulevard with three lanes in each direction, one of them possibly carrying buses during rush hour and providing on-street parking the rest of the day.