Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Ohio

Will Greater Cleveland Squander Its Chance to Be Competitive Again?

By Angie Schmitt | Jun 1, 2012 | 5 Comments

Population density in metro Cleveland, 1940 – 2007 The Obama Administration’s Sustainable Communities Initiative was tailor made for communities like greater Cleveland. Northeast Ohio has been sprawling for decades without adding any population, emptying out the notoriously troubled central city while the regional economy consistently under-performs. During the last decade the city of Cleveland lost […]

Christie, Walker, Kasich, and Scott All Deceived the Public to Kill Rail

By Angie Schmitt | Apr 13, 2012 | 8 Comments

Wisconsin, Ohio, New Jersey, Florida — the Republican governors in each of these states recently aborted a major rail project claiming it was too expensive. Their methods were remarkably similar; their justifications aligned. In many ways, it was like they were all working from the same playbook. Now that the Government Accountability Office has exposed New Jersey […]

Bad Transit Condemns Much of Ohio’s Growing Urban Poor to Dependency

By Angie Schmitt | Mar 9, 2012 | 2 Comments

Once every four years, politicians descend on a hard luck steel town in Northeast, Ohio called Youngstown. With a 50 percent poverty rate — the worst in the country — Youngstown makes a compelling a campaign speech backdrop, illustrating everything that is wrong with government, or maybe America. Mitt Romney appeared there this week on […]

House Transportation Bill Too Extreme for Some Republicans

By Angie Schmitt | Feb 8, 2012 | 5 Comments

The House GOP’s transportation bill is legislation only Big Oil can love. By eviscerating dedicated transit funds, killing programs that support safe streets, and linking transportation funding to oil drilling in the Arctic, the bill has managed to alienate everyone from environmental advocates to the ultra-conservative Club for Growth. So there’s a chance that House […]

Streetsies 2011: The Local Edition

By Tanya Snyder | Dec 29, 2011 | 1 Comment

Yesterday, we started our year-end 2011 round-up. We lamented transit cuts in places where transit is more important than ever, cheered the successful ballot initiatives that will fund transportation lifelines, took a moment to explore the nuances of some difficult issues, and called out Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin for some hare-brained ideas about the […]

Transit’s Not Bleeding the Taxpayer Dry — Roads Are

By Tanya Snyder | Dec 12, 2011 | 48 Comments

We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: Roads don’t pay for themselves. But maybe they should. “Taxpayers cover costs that should be borne by road users,” asserts the State Smart Transportation Initiative at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Road subsidies push up tax rates, squeeze government services, and skew the market for transportation.” SSTI, […]

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