Marc Lefkowitz
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Opposition Grows to Cleveland Opportunity Corridor
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It appears that her "you could either get it gloriously right or horribly wrong," warning issued by Harriet Tregoning, principal deputy assistant secretary for community development at HUD, has created space for healthy dialogue about the $331 million...
The Problem With Parking in Ohio City
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“West Side Market threatened as customers from other businesses take over its traditional parking area,” reads the Plain Press headline. The local newspaper alleges that the boom cycle happening in the city’s Market District is costi...
University Circle to Explore Incentives to Greening Commutes
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University Circle leaders are working on a plan that reckons with the perennial complaint about parking—using a method that a Case economics professor would understand.With demand for living and working in University Circle rising, the supply of...
Columbus Transportation Agency Sees Sprawl as a Food Security Issue
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A lack of control over land use may ultimately affect everything from the cost to the availability of local food in Ohio where 90% of the state’s $40 billion farm revenue comes from exporting food. It could explain why Central Ohio’s trans...
Why I Need Bike Share in Cleveland
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I’m thinking, maybe my next bike should be owned by someone else? Not only owned but repaired and looked after by another. The thought occurred while biking to work in University Circle where I spied the Zagster bike share station behind the Cou...
Five Questions About Bike-Share Getting Funded in Cleveland
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NOACA recently approved a $357,000 grant for building a citywide bike share system in Cleveland. The ultimate goal is to raise $2 million to either expand the existing Zagster pilot project or start over with another operator. Earlier, a Cleveland Bik...
Cleveland’s First Protected Bike Lane, The Midway, Gets Green Light
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The time is really ripe for Cleveland to build its first protected bike lane.
Never has there been such a convergence of interested parties—and resources to be leveraged.Cleveland has the most ambitious protected bike lane project, maybe in the ...
Cleveland Could Become a Test Market for Equity in Transit
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The Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority posted growth in overall ridership for the fourth straight year, providing just shy of 50 million rides in 2014. RTA did this despite waning state funding support and flagging county sales tax receipts,...
Worst Cities for Enabling Drunk Driving in Northeast Ohio
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When you pass a bar with a huge parking lot in front has the thought occured that one of those cars might not get home unscathed? When you and some friends get together for a few drinks, how do you get to—and more importantly—home from the...
It’s Always Sunnier in Akron: Where Road Diets Are Legal
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There’s a Cleveland folktale that it’s always sunnier in Akron. We like to believe that the micro-climate along the lake affects everything from cloud cover to lake effect snow to our sub-culture. Is it possible the confluence of lake and ...
The False Transit Dilemma, and What We Can Do About It
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As Ohio lawmakers prepare to vote next week on a state budget which had a modest $1 million increase for transit before even that was cut, why is transit so often confused with charity?
Jarrett Walker has a theory: The language we use to describe tran...
Does Dallas’s Klyde Warren Park Look Like What Cleveland Has in Mind for Innerbelt Cap?
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One of the coolest places I visited in Dallas was probably Klyde Warren Park. It's all there. The big green where I saw a father and son tossing a Frisbee. Kids and moms frolicking in a splash zone. People browsing magazines and newspapers off the rac...