Marc Lefkowitz |
05/23/13 @ 10:00am | Posted in Transportation choices, Composting
Enterprise Community Partners is raising the stakes of their Green Communities investment by placing $80,000 in grants in Cleveland neighborhoods that have shown a commitment to sustainability. Enterprise is a national funder of affordable—and in the last decade, ‘green built’—homes, with a local office that has supported development such as pedestrian-friendly Tremont Pointe.
Marc Lefkowitz |
05/21/13 @ 2:00pm | Posted in Transportation choices
From the 49th floor of Key Tower, pedestrians look like ants and the Appalachians form a rolling backdrop to city, lake and the east suburbs.
Marc Lefkowitz |
05/16/13 @ 3:00pm | Posted in Transportation choices
On my walk in to work today I ran in to Cleveland Heights Planning Director Richard Wong who was marking out a bike lane with a yellow Crayon on a freshly asphalted Edgehill Road. As we started discussing the advantages of the bike lane widening as it approaches the intersection at the top of the hill, I asked Wong about...
Marc Lefkowitz |
05/15/13 @ 3:00pm | Posted in Vibrant cities, Transportation choices
“God made the automobile. For the boys to drive past the pretty girls...” —Iron and Wine
Marc Lefkowitz |
05/13/13 @ 10:00am | Posted in Transportation choices
The reaction as Cleveland attempts to build a complete street on West 65th to The Plain Dealer story revealed a gap between public understanding and expert opinion on bike lanes, still a relatively new phenomenon in cities. Readers took issue when this author re-stated findings that bike lanes create a safer space in the road since they offer predictable zones...
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