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Today’s Headlines

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  • More Cincy Business Leaders Call for Streetcar Expansion (WCPO)
  • Big Revenue Losses Loom for Area Transit Agencies Following Sales Tax Ruling (Vindicator)
  • TARTA Must Find a Way to Serve Toledo’s Basic Transit Needs (Blade)
  • SORTA Lays Off Senior Management to Save Money (Enquirer)
  • Tougher Emission Standards Make Financial Conditions Even Worse for RTA (Plain Dealer)
  • Park(ing) Day Meant to Show How We Can Better Use Streets (Mobility Lab)
  • Is More Public Input Needed to Improve American Cities’ Bike Networks? (NPR)

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Paris to Return Its Great Public Squares to the People

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Paris’s Place de la République, before and after a 2012 redesign. Before photo: Google Street View; after photo: Clem/Flickr If you look at paintings from the pre-automotive era, Paris’s monumental public squares were full of people strolling comfortably. But over time, car traffic has consumed most of these squares. Now, under Mayor Anne Hidalgo, Paris is setting out to remake the city’s squares as great [...]

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  • Blade: Should Toledo Explore Option of Developing a Streetcar Network?
  • Cincinnati Streetcar Exceeds Initial Week’s Ridership Projections (WCPO)
  • Here’s How Cincy Is Planning to Increase Streetcar Travel Speeds (Business Courier)
  • Columbus Becomes Ohio’s First City to Have Transit Data Added to Apple Maps (Mac Rumors)
  • Can Cleveland Rescue East Cleveland From Itself? (Next City)
  • More Developers Are Deciding to Forgo Excessive Parking (Washington Post)
  • Do Ride-Sharing Services Help or Hurt Public Transit? (Slate)

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FHWA’s New Goal: Eliminating Pedestrian and Cyclist Deaths in America

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Pedestrian and cyclist deaths account for a growing share of traffic fatalities in America. Can federal officials reverse the trend? Graph: FHWA The Federal Highway Administration wants to eliminate pedestrian and cyclist fatalities “in the next 20 to 30 years.” In a new strategic plan [PDF], the agency calls for reducing serious injuries and deaths 80 percent in the [...]

Today’s Headlines

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  • What Can the Towpath Trail Do for the Future of Akron? (Beacon Journal)
  • Open Streets Festivals Bring Out the Best in City Life (5chw4r7z)
  • Cleveland’s Over-Dependence on Cars Makes Its Roads More Dangerous (Plain Dealer)
  • Will Streetcar Expansion Become Major Campaign Issue Next November? (Enquirer)
  • Might Cincinnati’s New Streetcar Shift Parking Patterns in Center City? (WCPO)
  • Why Does It Seem Most Urban Designers Suck Nowadays? (Governing)
  • Sprawling Cities Have All Sorts of Negative Externalities (City Observatory)

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Today’s Headlines

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  • Toledo Looking Into Possibility of Bike-Share System (Blade)
  • Columbus to Phase Out Use of “Share the Road” Signs (Road.cc)
  • Enquirer Gives High Marks to Cincinnati Streetcar
  • Cincinnati Already Looking for Ways to Extend Streetcar (Business Courier)
  • Even More Transit Cuts Went Into Effect for Cleveland Yesterday (Plain Dealer)
  • Check Out These Animated Maps of Bike-Share Ridership (Vox)
  • More Courts Are Realizing That Travel Forecasts Make Little Sense (City Observatory)

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A Safer Way: Road Diets

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There’s evidence that road diets have a positive effect on traffic crashes while addressing important questions of equity and climate change, an official with the Federal Highway Administration told a group in Cleveland this week. Road diets&mda...
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Fun With Cleveland Bike Lanes!

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I don’t even know where to begin with this one. Earlier this summer, shortly before Republicans invaded Cleveland, the publicly-funded downtown Hilton Hotel opened to much fanfare and self-congratulatory praise. The hotel’s completion coincided with the repaving and restriping of Ontario Avenue – which runs adjacent to the structure – from St. Clair to Lakeside. The project included the addition restoration of an on-road, striped bike lane, the first and only one located in downtown Cleveland (unless you include the stretch on the north side of Superior from around West 6th to the Detroit-Superior Bridge, which, don’t). Here’s what the lane is supposed to look like, courtesy of bike messenger and Twitter-er-er-er Dave Schalmo (@Courier429). You can see the valet parking signs conveniently placed in the middle of the lane, perhaps suggesting that the people at the Hilton weren’t too thrilled about the placement of said lane. Well, that … Continue reading → The post Fun with Cleveland bike lanes! appeared first on Tim Kovach.
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First Look: Streetcar Launches in Cincinnati

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This Friday, the City of Cincinnati launches its first Streetcar Line, connecting The Banks on the Riverfront with Over-the-Rhine and all points in between. Officially known as the “Cincinnati Bell Connector” due to a naming rights sponsorship from Cincinnati Bell, the 18-stop line will service residents, workers and visitors in the Downtown core of the […]

Today’s Headlines

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  • COTA Says November Tax Levy “Critical” to Agency’s Future (ThisWeek)
  • TARTA May Buy Former Newspaper Headquarters for New Bus Hub (Blade)
  • RTA and University of Akron Launch Free Downtown Shuttle Bus (Beacon Journal)
  • Columbus Looking to Launch Small, Autonomous Bus Operations (Dispatch)
  • Self-Driving Cars May Soon Be Allowed on Ohio Turnpike (Newsday)
  • What, If Anything, Can Cities Do to Fix Their Sprawling Suburbs? (TransitCenter)
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