Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Cleveland

Too Many State DOTs Are Little More Than Highway Departments

By Angie Schmitt | Aug 23, 2017 | No Comments

In the last 50 years, nearly every state agency that used to call itself the "highway department" has changed its name to the "department of transportation" to reflect a purported change in mission. But in practice, many state DOTs still operate strictly as highway departments.

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Cleveland Clinic Lets Slip That the “Opportunity Corridor” Isn’t About Opportunity At All

By Angie Schmitt | Jul 18, 2017 | No Comments

The official line on the $331 million road project was that it would help poor Cleveland residents, not whisk people past their neighborhoods to reach the Cleveland Clinic. It was a lie.

Cleveland's Public Square was the hub of the region's transit system until Mayor Frank Jackson removed buses as part of a redesign. Photo: Julio Gonzalez/Flickr

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Don’t Push Bus Riders to the Margins

By Angie Schmitt | Feb 6, 2017 | No Comments

Mayors frequently face pressure from business interests to remove bus riders from downtown areas. But that's a big mistake, says transit consultant Jarrett Walker.

Protestors gathered in Cleveland's Public Square to demand the return of bus routes to Superior Avenue.

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Cleveland Paper’s Fact-Free Take on Transit: “Wheezing” Buses Pollute Downtown

By Angie Schmitt | Dec 21, 2016 | No Comments

In a recent editorial, the Cleveland Plain Dealer argued that "wheezing, block-long buses" should get booted off the city's main square, disrupting tens of thousands of transit trips. But rerouting the buses is going to make emissions worse, not better.

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Cleveland Traffic Engineer Puts Buffer on the Wrong Side of the Bike Lane

By Angie Schmitt | Sep 18, 2015 | No Comments

Cleveland is finally installing buffered bike lanes along some major streets, but with the buffer between the bike lane and the curb, not between the bike lane and traffic. At first, many people thought this design was a mistake. But it has now been painted on two streets at the behest of Cleveland’s traffic engineer, Andy Cross. Local blog GreenCityBlueLake reports that […]

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Ta-Nehisi Coates on Race, Sprawl, and Car Culture

By Angie Schmitt | Aug 25, 2014 | No Comments

Atlantic Senior Editor Ta-Nehisi Coates was in Cleveland last week talking about his acclaimed long-form article, “The Case for Reparations,” which reviews the history of economic and social oppression of African Americans. I got to attend the talk, and late in his speech Coates made a few points that touch on the subjects we cover […]

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