Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Cleveland

A Crosswalk Too Far: The Hunt for America’s Least Crossable Street

By Angie Schmitt | May 14, 2014 | 39 Comments

Last February, Streetsblog readers determined the worst intersection in America. Then you pinpointed a suburban area with streets so windy and disconnected, it would take a seven mile trip to travel between two houses that shared a back yard. And for two years running you’ve helped shame the nation’s most parking-scarred downtowns. But there’s a […]

MIT Study: Benefits of Placemaking Go Deeper Than Better Places

By Angie Schmitt | Nov 1, 2013 | 4 Comments

For two Sundays every summer, a three-mile loop between downtown Fargo, North Dakota and nearby Moorhead, Minnesota is transformed. The open streets event StreetsAlive draws between 6,000 and 8,000 people — on bikes, sneakers and rollerblades — into the space that is normally occupied by cars. The event began as a healthy living initiative, with […]

In Cleveland, An Old-School Planning Agency Sees the Light

By Angie Schmitt | Oct 21, 2013 | 3 Comments

Cleveland’s metropolitan planning organization was one of those transportation agencies that had never quite gotten over the Eisenhower era. Sure, it threw some money at the transit agency every year. But for the most part, the Northeast Ohio Areawide Coordinating Agency (NOACA) treated its mission as a simple matter of expanding roads to reduce congestion. […]

ITDP Study: “A Coming Out for Bus-Based Transit-Oriented Development”

By Tanya Snyder | Sep 26, 2013 | 17 Comments

In a new report making the rounds this week, “More Development For Your Transit Dollar: An Analysis of 21 North American Transit Corridors,” the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy does two things. First, authors Walter Hook, Stephanie Lotshaw, and Annie Weinstock evaluate which factors determine the impact of urban transit on development, coming up […]

Passing a Law Is the Easy Part: The Challenge of Building Complete Streets

By Angie Schmitt | Jul 11, 2013 | 15 Comments

If Ontario Street in Cleveland, Ohio, is any indication, a complete streets policy is no guarantee you’ll get a safe place to ride a bike, or even a comfortable place to walk. Ontario is one of those roads designed to simply funnel traffic to and from a highway — and in fact there’s not much […]

Highway Revolts Break Out Across the Midwest

By Angie Schmitt | Jun 28, 2013 | 30 Comments

The evolution of state and regional transportation agencies is painfully slow in places like Missouri and Ohio, where officials are plowing ahead with pricey highway projects conceived of decades ago. But plenty of Midwesterners have different ideas for the future of their communities, and they aren’t shy about speaking up. One after another, residents of […]

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