Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Ohio

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, […]

How the Lure of Spending Keeps Dumb Highway Projects Alive

By Angie Schmitt | Mar 2, 2015 | 11 Comments

Decades ago, Ohio officials drew a line on a map — the Eastern Corridor, a highway for commuters living in Cincinnati’s eastern suburbs. No matter how much time has passed and how little sense it makes to build that highway today, that line can still seem like destiny. The Eastern Corridor began as a 1960s […]

Ohio DOT’s Defense of the Transit-Inaccessible Transit Meeting

By Angie Schmitt | Nov 3, 2014 | 15 Comments

On Friday, the Ohio Department of Transportation held a meeting ostensibly to gather feedback from transit riders in the Dayton and Cincinnati regions. But ODOT held the meeting in exurban Lebanon — a hour’s trip by car from Cincinnati and totally inaccessible by transit from either city. What was ODOT thinking? Is it just a symptom […]

Documentary to Explore Racial Discrimination in Transportation Planning

By Angie Schmitt | Oct 29, 2014 | 4 Comments

Beavercreek, Ohio, nabbed its own infamous place in civil rights history last year, when the Federal Highway Administration ruled that the suburb had violated anti-discrimination laws by blocking bus service from nearby Dayton. The Beavercreek case marked the first time civil rights activists had successfully filed this type of administrative complaint with the FHWA against […]

How Two Regions Reined in Job Piracy — And Two Others Failed

By Angie Schmitt | Jul 11, 2014 | 6 Comments

They call it “intra-regional job piracy” — when one town uses tax breaks to lure employers from neighboring towns. Job piracy is very common in regions across the United States. And it almost always results in employers moving farther from the central city. As the D.C.-based think tank Good Jobs First has shown [PDF], this job […]

How 3 Communities Fought Discriminatory Transportation Policies

By Angie Schmitt | Jul 3, 2014 | 5 Comments

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act, which outlawed discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. To celebrate the occasion, PolicyLink and the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights held a discussion this week about how that legislation has affected transportation policy. Three local community leaders […]

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