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As Pittsburgh grows its transit use, Cleveland struggles

Marc Lefkowitz  |  09/01/15 @ 2:00pm  |  Posted in Transit, Transportation choices

For many Northeast Ohioans, transit exists only at the extremes: either it’s a luxury or a lifeline. For many, their interaction with transit involves driving to a train station in the suburbs, parking their car (for free) and riding a train when they want to go to a ballgame or to save on the cost of a monthly parking pass...

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University Circle to explore incentives to greening commutes

Marc Lefkowitz  |  07/08/15 @ 4:00pm  |  Posted in Transportation choices

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.

Going all multi modal<br />University Circle has made transportation choices more viable, and want to build from that base with a transportation demand management plan.

Columbus transportation agency sees sprawl as a food security issue

Marc Lefkowitz  |  07/06/15 @ 10:00am  |  Posted in Local food system, Transportation choices

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 transportation and planning agency, MORPC, is addressing land use as a food security issue.

<br />A farm for sale in rural Ohio.

It's always sunnier in Akron: where road diets are legal

Marc Lefkowitz  |  06/08/15 @ 12:00pm  |  Posted in Vibrant cities, Transportation choices

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 river affect as much the geography of space and mindset?

Legalize it<br />The road diet that the city of Lakewood is boldly proposing for safety and vibrancy reasons on Madison Avenue.<br />The current stretch of Madison Avenue in Lakewood, OH.

Northern Ohio transportation agency to create a Transit Oriented Development Scorecard

Marc Lefkowitz  |  05/19/15 @ 10:00am  |  Posted in Transportation choices

Northeast Ohio’s transportation and water quality agency, NOACA has plans to rank developments for transit access and walkability with the aim of improving links between high frequency transit stops and their community.

<br />Euclid and Mayfield has been recognized as a national example of transit oriented development.<br />How could a Transit Oriented Development Scorecard for Northeast Ohio help an emerging TOD study around the East 79th Street Redline Rapid Station pictured here?<br />Could a TOD Scorecard help set a better standard for walkable urbanism around the East 55th Redline Rapid Station pictured in the background here?

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