Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Cleveland

Will Cleveland Finally Get Serious About Confronting Sprawl?

By Angie Schmitt | Apr 22, 2016 | 2 Comments

The Cleveland region has been struggling with sprawl for a long time. Since the 1970s, the regional population has shrunk while housing and jobs have spread outward — a combination that has devastated urban areas in particular. Transportation policy is a big part of the problem. Northeast Ohio keeps widening highways, facilitating quick suburban commutes and fueling sprawl. This weakens the places that are […]

What Other Cities Say About Cleveland’s Unusual Bike Lane Buffer

By Michael Andersen | Nov 13, 2015 | 44 Comments

Michael Andersen blogs for The Green Lane Project, a PeopleForBikes program that helps U.S. cities build better bike lanes to create low-stress streets. For all their benefits, protected bike lanes can be complicated. Between maintaining barriers, keeping them clear of snow and preserving intersection visibility, it’s understandable that cities opt not to include them on […]

Cleveland Traffic Engineer Puts Buffer on the Wrong Side of the Bike Lane

By Angie Schmitt | Sep 18, 2015 | 215 Comments

Cleveland is finally installing buffered bike lanes along some major streets, but with the buffer between the bike lane and the curb, not between the bike lane and traffic. At first, many people thought this design was a mistake. But it has now been painted on two streets at the behest of Cleveland’s traffic engineer, Andy Cross. Local blog GreenCityBlueLake reports that […]

HUD Tells Cleveland: Don’t Let Opportunity Corridor Go “Horribly Wrong”

By Tanya Snyder | Jul 7, 2015 | No Comments

It was a sad day in Washington, DC, last year when Harriet Tregoning left the DC Office of Planning. But it’s becoming clear that she’s a great addition at HUD. In her capacity as the agency’s principal deputy assistant secretary for community development, Tregoning issued a stern warning to the city of Cleveland and Ohio DOT last […]

Ohio Cities to State DOT: No More New Roads, Just Fix What We Have

By Angie Schmitt | Apr 2, 2015 | 28 Comments

Given that the federal Highway Trust Fund is broke and the Interstate Highway System is more or less complete, maybe — just maybe! — it doesn’t make sense to keep expanding highways. And if there’s one place in the country where it’s especially urgent to stop building more highways, it’s northeast Ohio. The combined metro areas of Akron, Cleveland, […]

Cleveland’s Opportunity Corridor: An Opportunity to Destroy a Community

By Phineas Baxandall and Jeff Inglis | Sep 23, 2014 | 31 Comments

A recent report by U.S. PIRG and the Frontier Group, “Highway Boondoggles: Wasted Money and America’s Transportation Future,” examines 11 of the most wasteful, least justifiable road projects underway in America right now. Here’s the latest installment in our series profiling the various bad decisions that funnel so much money to infrastructure that does no good. The Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) […]

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