Marc Lefkowitz
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The Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland Finds Suburban Centers Sprawled Too Far for Workers
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Add the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland to the chorus of concern over a growing gulf between jobs and who has access to them in Northeast Ohio.In A Long Ride to Work: Job Access and Public Transportation in Northeast Ohio, The Fed looks at how many ...
Cleveland Parking Makes Bike Lanes a Near Miss
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Cleveland landed in the national spotlight for its “backwards” bike lanes. When the city painted a striped buffer between the curb and bike lane on West 25th Street and on Lorain Avenue (instead of between the car and bike lanes), it start...
This Simple Graphic Explains Ohio Lags Midwest in Bike Lanes, Transit, and Talent Attraction
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It doesn’t take rocket science to figure out why Ohio metros lag behind peer cities in the Midwest building the bike lanes, walkable streets, and new transit service that are the hallmarks of Millennial talent attraction.It just takes about five...
Best and Worst Cities for Cycling Safety, Breathing Clean Air
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US DOT has an interesting new methodology to compare the health impact of local transportation systems. We pulled some examples to compare the Cleveland Urbanized Area and some peer cities. You can see the results in the charts below. We encourage you...
Turn Dying Mall Into Walkable Town Center, Cleveland Heights Group Says
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These are tough times for malls and shopping centers in America. Mostly, they are struggling with relevancy as millennials express a preference for places that blend seamlessly into their daily comings and goings.The “ReImagining Severance&rdquo...
Forest City CEO Ron Ratner Takes Cleveland’s Almost-Decade Old Comprehensive Plan to the Mat
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The last time Cleveland updated its Comprehensive Plan, LeBron hadn’t made The Decision, the subprime lending fiasco hadn’t struck down whole neighborhoods like Slavic Village, downtown’s population was well below 10,000 and 8% of th...
How Cleveland Is Being Defined by Opportunity Corridor
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How quickly has Opportunity Corridor become a Cleveland meme? The $331 million, five-to-six lane road to be built between I-490 and University Circle has become synonymous with its lead sponsor, Ohio Department of Transportation, and its uniform code ...
Cleveland Considers a Zoning Update to Allow More Urbanity
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On the date (October 21, 2015) that Marty McFly set the Delorean time machine to land in “Back to The Future, Part II” Cleveland considered taking its zoning code back to a place that will support more urban, walkable places.
Since the 192...
A Big Cycling Circuit for Cleveland, Near West Side Gains Ground
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No one project defines Cleveland’s 80 miles of Bikeways by 2017 Plan: Bike lanes have been popping up all over the city—from E. 22nd to Superior Avenue to E. 72nd Street. But if a candidate has to be found, the Near West Side’s effor...
Columbus Moves Toward Mode Shift
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The Columbus region has a plan to link transportation funding to new environmental goals. It has already started to redraw the map for roads that go outside of the urban area.The Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission (MORPC)—which has a $14 mill...
University Circle Has a Strategy to Manage Congestion: Mode Shift, Housing
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University Circle is taking seriously the commitments that the City of Cleveland and the regional transportation agency, NOACA, have made in establishing goals to reduce carbon emissions from buildings and transportation, according to consultants help...
Cleveland Wants Bike Share by 2016
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The City of Cleveland and bike advocacy group BikeCleveland are seeking proposals to turn $446,000 in capital into a bike share system with a hoped-for launch by the RNC’s arrival in 2016.Cleveland is looking specifically for a vendor with exper...