Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Cleveland

Placemaking to Make Friends: The Case of Cleveland’s East 4th Street

By Tanya Snyder | Jun 6, 2013 | 2 Comments

Ari Maron had no friends. When he moved back to Cleveland after college, all his friends had moved away. “They’d all gone to New York and Chicago and San Francisco,” he said. “And none of them lived in cul-de-sacs. None of them drove SUVs. They all lived in mixed-use buildings, they were all connected to […]

Cleveland Revisits 1960s With Urban Renewal-Style “Opportunity Corridor”

By Angie Schmitt | Jun 5, 2013 | 33 Comments

Cleveland’s business leaders want you to know that “The Opportunity Corridor” — a new road they want to jam through the city’s southeast side — definitely isn’t a highway. From the beginning, project proponents have been careful to refer to this $350 million, three-mile traffic-mover as a “boulevard.” And they also want you to faithfully […]

Too Bad Captain America Can’t Rescue Cleveland From Ohio DOT

By Angie Schmitt | May 3, 2013 | 5 Comments

Where advocates in Cleveland fell short, Captain America has triumphed. For decades, many in Cleveland have dreamed of transforming the West Shoreway — a state highway separating the city from its tantalizingly inaccessible waterfront — into a tree-lined boulevard with at-grade intersections, so that residents of nearby neighborhoods could cross the street to Edgewater Park […]

“Elite Eight” Parking Madness: Tulsa vs. Cleveland

By Angie Schmitt | Apr 4, 2013 | 21 Comments

This is it: our last Parking Madness match-up before the Final Four. And it’s going to be a good one. From the beginning, the two cities facing off today — Cleveland, Ohio, and Tulsa, Oklahoma — both seemed to me like solid contenders to make the final rounds. Without further ado, let’s examine Tulsa: This […]

Seeking Submissions: The Worst Parking Crater in an American Downtown

By Angie Schmitt | Mar 5, 2013 | 29 Comments

Alright, Streetsblog readers. Send us your best shots. After running our “worst intersection in America” photo contest, we heard from readers who want to see “more public shaming” of terrible transportation and planning blunders around the country. We aim to please. So here is the next contest: Where is the worst sea of downtown surface parking in […]

World’s Most Entitled Driver Sentenced to Wear “Idiot” Sign

By Angie Schmitt | Nov 7, 2012 | 14 Comments

Need a break from election coverage? Check out this shoo-in for the bad driver hall of fame: In an attempt to avoid waiting behind a school bus unloading children, a Cleveland-area woman was caught driving on the sidewalk. But after some unorthodox punishment, handed down by a local judge, we’re guessing 32-year-old Shena Hardin won’t […]

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