The Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority Board / Committee of the Whole revisited the discussion it tabled in January about how it will close the $7 million gap it approved in its 2016 budget.RTA got an earful from customers who attended the m...

If you’ve been following the news on RTA’s budget crisis, and its deliberations this Tuesday by its Board Finance Committee to raise fares 11% then you’re probably wondering what could forestall the increase (and related 3% cut of bu...

When Joe Calabrese left Central New York RTA to take the helm at Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority 16 years ago, 1.392 million people lived in Cuyahoga County, where they provided 1 cent on every purchase to support RTA. The sales tax contr...

RTA is being asked to do the nearly impossible—preserve a large transit system while state and local funding erodes and the region continues to sprawl outward. What is a transit agency to do?A storm cloud is gathering on Greater Cleveland’...

“Little Miami Trail has 910,000 users in 2015,” Ohio Department of Natural Resources @Ohiodnr Tweeted on February 2. ODNR has reason to tout the trail—they say it’s part of the largest, off-road paved bike network in the countr...

What would happen if Americans stopped loving cars and all that comes with them? Look at Houston, which may be forgiven for regretting its decision to spend $2.8 billion in 2014 to widen its Katy Freeway only to find that car travel times went up by 5...

“I have to be careful going up hills, because if I stop, the whole thing will tip over,” Nick Rajkovich explains the physics of navigating 40 pounds of air temperature monitors, a camera and a complex steel frame lashed to his black, Surly...

Even though Northeast Ohio’s transportation agency, NOACA spends only 7% of its budget building new roads, Executive Director, Grace Gallucci says, make no mistake; the region is still expanding its roads and highways.“There’s two bi...

It was a tumultuous year. There was plenty to cheer (Lake Erie wind farm, the Ohio Supreme Court stormwater case, etc.) and reasons to jeer (the Ohio renewable energy freeze, the “backwards” bike lane in Cleveland). Check our list: See wha...

Is the mega Cleveland region ready to tap the brakes on decades of sprawl-inducing investments? Some are advocating that Northeast Ohio’s transportation agency, NOACA, help the region move in that direction.NOACA, the regional agency that overse...

The Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland produced this interactive map that shows how accessible jobs are from your neighborhood. Double click on the map to zoom in to your neighborhood to see its job access. (Click the home icon to return to the large ma...

Last week, Cuyahoga County signed a contract with bike share operator, CycleHop and supplier, Social Bike (SoBi), to build a full-scale, bike share system in Cleveland by May, 2016. The county secured a $357,000 federal grant and BikeCleveland raised ...