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Columbus Allocates $212 Million in 2017 Transportation Projects (Columbus Dispatch) I-71 Is The Deadliest Highway in Ohio (Columbus Underground) Dayton’s First Pedicab Hits Streets this Week (Dayton Daily News) Ohio Lags Behind Peer States in Passenger Rail Service (All Aboard Ohio) Poor Bus Service Keeping Cincinnatians Mired in Poverty (WCPO) “Baby on Board” Buttons Coming to NYC Subway (Fortune) BART […]

Cincy Streetcar Logs Half a Million Riders (WCPO) Cleveland Clamps Down on Motorized Dirt Biking Downtown (WKSU) Dayton Airport Consolidates Taxi Companies to Compete with Uber, Lyft (Dayton Daily News) Elmore Connector Project on Indefinite Hold (WCPO) For Bike to Work Day, Greater Cincinnati Transit Agencies Waive Fares for Bike Commuters (WVXU) Sexual Harassment Claims Could Push Out Top Uber […]

RTA, Lyft Partner to Bring Transit to Rural Areas Near Dayton (Dayton Daily News) Akron Holds “Ride of Silence” to Honor Cyclists Killed by Drivers (WKSU) Uber Facilitating Transit Connections in Dayton, Cincinnati (Dayton Daily News) Northeast Ohio Town Approves Walkable Downtown Retail Plan (WKSU) Columbus Invests $2.5 Million in Electric Vehicles (Columbus Business First) Reducing Lanes Didn’t Increase Congestion on […]

Contra-Flow Bike Lane Meant to Improve Dayton Bicyclists’ Safety (Dayton Daily News) Ohio’s Bridge Problem Doesn’t End With the Brent Spence Bridge (WCPO) I-71/I-75 Junction Among Worst Truck “Chokepoints” (Columbus Business First) Digital Tool Calculates the Financial, Environmental Costs of Commutes (Cleveland Plain Dealer) Bicyclists Deliver Books to Low-Income Kids Annual Cincy Event (WCPO) Texting While Driving Causing More Deaths, […]

Dayton “High Line” Project Takes Next Step (Dayton Daily News) Uptick in Cincy Streetcar Ridership Still Short of Projections (Cincinnati Business Courier) Red Light Cameras Returning to Dayton (Dayton Daily News) Streetcar Wins National Engineering Award (City of Cincinnati) Columbus StartUp Week Highlights Smart City Projects (Columbus Dispatch) Summer Repairs Swamp NYC’s Penn Station (WSJ) Kansas City Celebrates Streetcar’s First Birthday, Eyes Expansion […]

Cleveland Extends Trolley Line Farther East (Cleveland Plain Dealer) Battle Over New Brent Spence Bridge Funding Continues (WLWT) Datasets Used to Win Smart City Transportation Grant Made Public (Columbus Business First) Bill Would Require Cincinnati Parking Garages to Have EV Stations (Cincinnati Business Courier) Genius Pol Tom Patton Tries to Force Small Ohio Towns to Shut Down Speed Cameras, […]