Cleveland's Memorial Shoreway has been shut down from today and until June 14 for Marvel Studios' filming of Captain America: The Winter Soldier. More specifically, 3.5 miles of highway is now closed on the western side of Downtown Cleveland, in both directions.
Previously, The Daily SuperHero was told by a city representative the reasoning behind the lengthy closure. It is mainly due to cleanup costs that would incur daily. Both Marvel and the city of Cleveland recognized these extreme daily costs and it would be much cheaper for the studio and city to completely shut down the highway for two straight weeks instead of cleaning up production everyday for commuter traffic.
Many of today's Cleveland commuters would argue that thought process by Marvel and the city while they were stuck in their car in traffic. Today, their daily commute times have reportedly been tripled and even quadrupled because of the highway closure. Welcome to big city-like traffic!
Getting back to the point, emails and phone calls were made to contacts/insiders and another reason has been discovered regarding the closure. Speed. Actually it was said like this... "Lots of speed."
Everyone who has been paying attention to the production of Captain America 2 in Cleveland knows how much car action, car crashes, car explosions and car chases have already been filmed downtown. Now a city source has said speed is needed on the Shoreway in order for Marvel to realistically show fast cars. The fast-paced action taking place on the Shoreway needs to be properly conveyed onto the big screen when the sequel hits theaters in April 2014. Therefore, in order to properly show speed lots of highway was needed.
While some commuters already hate their timely trip to get downtown to work it's only for two weeks and won't be like in New York or Chicago or Los Angeles—all of whom have to face daily traffic issues like today's every single day.
Hollywood isn't going anywhere since the Greater Cleveland Film Commission has publicly said 2-3 producers are talking about bringing their films to Cleveland in the very near future. This is just a part of living in Cleveland now that the city is a growing commodity for Hollywood productions.
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