Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Cleveland

Ta-Nehisi Coates on Race, Sprawl, and Car Culture

By Angie Schmitt | Aug 25, 2014 | 7 Comments

Atlantic Senior Editor Ta-Nehisi Coates was in Cleveland last week talking about his acclaimed long-form article, “The Case for Reparations,” which reviews the history of economic and social oppression of African Americans. I got to attend the talk, and late in his speech Coates made a few points that touch on the subjects we cover […]

The Plan to Build Bicycle Highways Where Cleveland’s Streetcars Once Ran

By Angie Schmitt | Aug 12, 2014 | 23 Comments

Like many cities in America, Cleveland grew into its own as a streetcar city. In the early part of the last century, hundreds of miles of streetcars connected all corners of the city as well as its inner suburbs. The streets where tracks carried passengers — Lorain, Superior, Euclid — were the circulatory system of the […]

3 Ways LeBron Can Help Get Cleveland Biking

By Angie Schmitt | Jul 11, 2014 | 4 Comments

Well, the Decision Part II is official, and northeast Ohio’s prodigal son LeBron James is heading back to Cleveland. The most immediate result is that the Cavaliers are going to get much, much better. Aside from his phenomenal basketball skills, LeBron has moonlighted as a bit of a bike advocate. For years, he’s held a […]

The Ridiculous Politics That Slow Down America’s Best BRT Route

By Angie Schmitt | Jun 12, 2014 | 29 Comments

Cleveland’s Healthline is widely viewed as the best bus rapid transit project in the country — and for many good reasons. Running on dedicated center lanes, the Healthline isn’t bogged down by car traffic on the most congested portions of its 7.1-mile route. With about 14,000 daily trips, the Healthline has increased ridership nearly 50 percent (though […]

Parking Craters: Scourge of American Downtowns

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Jun 4, 2014 | No Comments

Streetsblog’s Angie Schmitt popularized the term “parking crater,” defined simply as “a depression in the middle of an urban area formed by the absence of buildings.” Various types of “meteors” left behind parking craters in the 20th century — sprawl subsidies, highway building, the erosion of manufacturing. Whatever the cause, parking craters destroy sections of downtowns and make the environment inhospitable and […]

How the Federal TIGER Program Revived a Cleveland Neighborhood

By Angie Schmitt | May 15, 2014 | 9 Comments

Cleveland doesn’t look like a dying Rust Belt city these days in the Little Italy and University Circle neighborhoods. In fact, it looks like it’s thriving. At the corner of Euclid and Mayfield, a new mixed-use development — MRN’s “Uptown” — is filling out, hosting a bookstore, a bakery, bars, and new apartments. Just across the street, […]

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