Unfortunately the streetcar map they showed left out quite a few routes like Clifton, Madison in Lakewood, Rocky River Drive, West 65th, West 105th/Bellaire, Clark/Pershing, Denison/Harvard, Broadview, State, Pearl, East 30th, East 79th, East 93rd, East 105th, Fairmount, Cedar, and eastward extensions. This was the pre-Depression peak of the streetcar system, owned and operated by the stockholder-owned Cleveland Railway Co.

 

^ Can we get a kickstarter campaign to restart the Cleveland Railway Company?

^ Can we get a kickstarter campaign to restart the Cleveland Railway Company?

 

Maybe among the billionaire boys club!

^ Can we get a kickstarter campaign to restart the Cleveland Railway Company?

 

Maybe among the billionaire boys club!

 

Ha! Well, it may be UO will need to wield its heavy influence here.

 

Ted's map doesn't really benefit me personally since i'm in East Lakewood. But I do like the idea.

Bike share system coming to Cleveland run by Zagster. Announcement is tomorrow at Market Garden. I feel like this came out of nowhere.

 

http://www.newsnet5.com/news/local-news/cleveland-metro/bike-sharing-coming-to-clevleand

 

Also, I'm a bit skeptical because of this line, "Zagster is fundamentally different from big-city programs in that their technology and system is lower cost, without sacrificing functionality," said spokesperson John Williams. "Their strategy is to bring bike sharing to smaller cities, communities, universities and real estate developments — places where the big city models don’t pencil out."

 

Are we about to half-ass a bike share program?

Bike share system coming to Cleveland run by Zagster. Announcement is tomorrow at Market Garden. I feel like this came out of nowhere.

 

http://www.newsnet5.com/news/local-news/cleveland-metro/bike-sharing-coming-to-clevleand

 

Also, I'm a bit skeptical because of this line, "Zagster is fundamentally different from big-city programs in that their technology and system is lower cost, without sacrificing functionality," said spokesperson John Williams. "Their strategy is to bring bike sharing to smaller cities, communities, universities and real estate developments — places where the big city models don’t pencil out."

 

Are we about to half-ass a bike share program?

 

Half an ass better than no ass? 

 

Hopefully the success of this will lead to a better system.  However, the system might not have the chance to be successful if there are not enough stations strategically place around the city.

Finally!

 

Bike sharing rolls in to Cleveland with stations in Ohio City, at Superior Viaduct

By Alison Grant, The Plain Dealer

on September 10, 2014 at 6:00 AM, updated September 10, 2014 at 10:26 AM

 

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Cycling in Cleveland gets a fresh spin forward today with the launch of a bike-sharing program that will offer rental bikes at six locations throughout Ohio City and at the Superior Viaduct.

 

The "Breezer" bikes, with step-through frames and front baskets big enough to hold a bag of groceries, are for rent for $3 an hour from Zagster, a Cambridge, Mass.-based bike sharing company that until now has concentrated on corporate and university settings

 

Residents and visitors can hop on a Breezer to run errands or zip to a restaurant over lunch --- and leave the cost of buying, tuning up and storing a bike to someone else.

 

The program pushes off at a noon press conference at one of the new Zagster stations, between the West Side Market and Market Garden Brewery on West 25th Street in Cleveland.

 

READ MORE AT:

http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2014/09/bike_sharing_rolls_in_to_cleve.html

I don't really understand the station locations. Why stay in Ohio City? Who's their target audience? Honestly Ohio City only needs one or two stations in my opinion. Put another in Tremont, and a few downtown (Public Square, Playhouse Square, East 4th/Gateway, and CSU. Possibly warehouse district.

 

I think a university circle network would work great as well. Wade Oval, Uptown/MOCA, Little Italy, Coventry, and Cedar Fairmount.

Ohio City business owners funded it.  So there's that....

I don't really understand the station locations. Why stay in Ohio City? Who's their target audience? Honestly Ohio City only needs one or two stations in my opinion. Put another in Tremont, and a few downtown (Public Square, Playhouse Square, East 4th/Gateway, and CSU. Possibly warehouse district.

 

I think a university circle network would work great as well. Wade Oval, Uptown/MOCA, Little Italy, Coventry, and Cedar Fairmount.

 

The Ohio City bikes this fall are a pilot test run. From the cleveland.com article: "And they say Cleveland's pilot network of 34 Breezers at six stations could expand to perhaps 200 bikes and other neighborhoods, including University Circle, in the spring."

Plus, based on the article, sounds like the vision for this system is a little different from the discrete station to station rides most other cities support.  These bikes have locks, so can be parked (temporarily) at other destinations.  Will work more like car sharing than normal bike sharing.

Part of Shoreway will close Saturday for bike festival's premier ride

 

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The eastbound lanes of the Shoreway between Lake Avenue and East 9th Street will be closed Saturday from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. for the Night Ride, which begins at 8 p.m. at the Hub at Edgewater Park.

 

Nearly 1,000 cyclists are expected to participate in the ride, the Greater Cleveland Sports Commission said Wednesday.

 

The Night Ride is part of this weekend's NEOCycle event, the Midwest's first urban cycling festival.

 

NEOCycle features five races and rides, live music, food, and other events from Friday through Sunday. About 2,000 cyclists from a dozen states are expected to attend.

 

http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2014/09/part_of_shoreway_will_close_sa.html#incart_river

Bike Cleveland reddit page: http://www.reddit.com/r/BikeCLE

I've gotta say, I think I like the Zagstar model more than the publicly funded bike shares across the Country.  Our system popped up quick, with private backing, and is expanding even quicker without the agonizing public funding process.  Columbus seemed to talk about their program for years with plenty of back and forth before anything happened.  Is the Zagstar model cheaper than the public systems?

 

 

 

New bike-sharing program expands today to more Cleveland neighborhoods

 

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The bike-sharing program that zipped into Cleveland less than six weeks ago is already expanding past its initial launch site of Ohio City.

 

Sponsors of the Zagster bike rental stations will announce three new locations today:

 

-- A downtown station on West 6th Street sponsored by Barley House Cleveland

 

-- A Tremont station, located in front of Civilization Café on West 11th Street, sponsored by Tremont West Development Corporation, Cleveland Councilman Joe Cimperman, Platform Brewery and Civilization Café/City Roast Coffee

 

-- A University Circle station at the intersection of Euclid Avenue and Cornell Road, sponsored by Courtyard by Marriott Cleveland University Circle

 

Sixteen bikes will be stationed among the three new sites and available for rental beginning at noon today. The expansion brings Zagster's city-wide fleet to 50 bikes.

 

The bike-share program got underway Sept. 10 with 34 of the light-framed  Breezer-brand bikes scattered among five rental stations in Ohio City and one at the Superior Viaduct.

 

http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2014/10/new_bike-sharing_program_expan.html#incart_river

I would just like to refer people to the Bike share study presentation and implementation plan.

 

http://www.gcbl.org/files/resources/finalclevelandbikesharefeasibilitystudy.pdf

 

Zagster is a good start but it falls far short of the system envisioned for cleveland

 

with 700 bike and 70 stations for both University circle downtown and the near west side.

 

Zagster system is also a Lease type of system not the conventional capital intensive system that Cities like Columbus and Cincinnati have invested in. and every bike share Station has to be Renewed by Each station sponsor every year for ~$7000.  in contrast to a conventional 10 bike station that costs $40,000 to own.

 

For Example if Barley House disappears the bike share station would disappear unless another business decides to take over the lease. It would be nice to think the generosity of businesses would never end, but realistically with Zagster there is a high risk that the system will implode once the "newness" wears off and financial realities of business take over.

 

 

Installation of Lakefront Bikeway multipurpose trail along US 6 from W

65th St to W 28th St.

 

 

 

I took this picture on Monday.  This is the first signage I've seen for the Bikeway.  (This is at Edgewater Park exit, south side of the road at the stop sign)

This Trailer for a Cleveland Cycling Documentary Looks Terrific

Keith Ten Eyck released the trailer for a dynamite documentary on the culture of cycling — with, of course, a focus on Cleveland.

 

"There's this incredible power and energy that just wants to break out," Councilman Joe Cimperman says in the trailer. "I think you have to ask yourself a simple question, which is 'What kind of city do we want to be?'"

 

He's joined by at least a dozen other cycling advocates from around Cleveland, all offering insightful looks into the bike scene in town. Plus, the music is awesome.

 

Kickstand will be released in the summer of 2015.

 

http://www.clevescene.com/scene-and-heard/archives/2014/11/22/this-trailer-for-a-cleveland-cycling-documentary-looks-terrific

Cleveland earns mixed grades on 'complete and green streets' three full years into historic program

By Steven Litt, The Plain Dealer

on January 13, 2015 at 10:08 AM, updated January 13, 2015 at 11:15 AM

 

CLEVELAND, Ohio – Jacob VanSickle scoffs at winter. A year-round cyclist, he dons cold weather gear nearly every day, snaps on his helmet and mounts the saddle of his Civia-Bryant to commute to work as director of Bike Cleveland, the city's leading advocacy group for cyclists.

 

His job puts him in an ideal position to evaluate the city's 2011 Complete and Green Streets Ordinance, a key piece of legislation aimed at transforming public rights-of-way to make them friendlier for transit, pedestrians, bicyclists and the environment.

 

Such ordinances, now common across the country, view streets as vital networks that serve broader and more complex agendas than simply moving traffic.

 

MORE:

http://www.cleveland.com/architecture/index.ssf/2015/01/cleveland_earns_mixed_report_c.html

This Trailer for a Cleveland Cycling Documentary Looks Terrific

Keith Ten Eyck released the trailer for a dynamite documentary on the culture of cycling — with, of course, a focus on Cleveland.

 

"There's this incredible power and energy that just wants to break out," Councilman Joe Cimperman says in the trailer. "I think you have to ask yourself a simple question, which is 'What kind of city do we want to be?'"

 

He's joined by at least a dozen other cycling advocates from around Cleveland, all offering insightful looks into the bike scene in town. Plus, the music is awesome.

 

Kickstand will be released in the summer of 2015.

 

http://www.clevescene.com/scene-and-heard/archives/2014/11/22/this-trailer-for-a-cleveland-cycling-documentary-looks-terrific

 

Missed this! Yeah this looks very well done.

 

Great audio: check

 

Great visuals: check

 

Great CLE local music soundtrack: check

 

There you have it; the indie film trifecta of greatness.

Bicycle Lobby ‏@BicycleLobby  23m23 minutes ago

In the future, snow will be plowed from bike lanes and pushed into car lanes.

Speak Up to Make Lorain Ave. Safer for Cyclists @Bike_CLE http://coolcleveland.com/blog/2015/02/speak-up-to-make-lorain-ave-safer-for-cyclists-bike_cle/ …

More on Cleveland's proposed Midway project...

 

Midway cycle track, Center Ridge Road freshening, get nod from regional planners

http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2015/04/midway_cycle_track_center_ridg.html

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Bike lanes at the center of those wide Cleveland avenues where streetcars once chugged have gotten a friendly reception from regional planners.

 

A Northeast Ohio Areawide Coordinating Agency committee has voted in favor of planning grants for the Midway Cycle Track and six other ideas to improve bike and pedestrian links in neighborhoods across Cuyahoga County. The decision by NOACA's planning and programming committee is the final hurdle before the projects go to the full NOACA board, which will vote on whether to approve the funding at its June 10 meeting.

 

The projects all applied for money through the Transportation for Livable Communities Initiative. The modest-sized, niche pool of money at NOACA is for transportation projects that are not car-centric.

 

^ Looking forward to some distant future when I can ride from Lakewood to Downtown without fearing for my life.

^ Looking forward to some distant future when I can ride from Lakewood to Downtown without fearing for my life.

 

I don't think it's to that extreme, but I hear ya!

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Bike lanes at the center of those wide Cleveland avenues where streetcars once chugged have gotten a friendly reception from regional planners.

 

Streetcars chugged??  :roll:

The Midway proposal now has a website.

 

http://midwaycle.org/

 

This would be awesome! Tend to agree with surfohio that it's treacherous biking from downtown to lakewood.

This would be awesome! Tend to agree with surfohio that it's treacherous biking from downtown to lakewood.

 

This past weekend I biked from downtown to the Rocky River reservation for the first time. Getting to Lakewood wasn't too awful (but it could be a lot better). The worst stretch was Detroit Ave in Cleveland, and at least that part had bike lanes. I came back downtown from Kamms Corner's via Lorain Ave...now that was indeed treacherous.

 

Edit: Speaking of Lorain Ave, it is being resurfaced from W 150th to W 117th, but the part from W 129th to W 117th was not going to include bike lanes. Apparently Dona Brady was opposed to having bike lanes in the stretch that ran through her ward (even though the part in Ward 16 will have bike lanes). Does anyone know if there was any change with this? I know Bike Cleveland was pushing to have special lanes added, but I haven't heard anything lately.

http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2015/05/cleveland_bike_share_could_gro.html#incart_river

 

Bike-sharing in #Cle expands again, now 14 stations  @Bike_CLE @hingetown @noaca @zagster http://t.co/2CQBH2RWG1 http://t.co/9uhRO5g2YZ

Bike-sharing in #Cle expands again, now 14 stations  @Bike_CLE @hingetown @noaca @zagster http://t.co/2CQBH2RWG1 http://t.co/9uhRO5g2YZ

 

"Zagster is hoping its nimble approach makes it a strong candidate for a major expansion of bike-sharing that the city and Cuyahoga County are pursuing for Greater Cleveland..."

 

City Hall ineptitude strikes again

 

http://www.bikecleveland.org/bike-cle/news/action-alert-w-25th-street-bike-lane/2015/08/

^Just came here to post the same thing.  Would love to hear an explanation from the city for that. Seems idiotic.  Some of the striping on Detroit in Hiingetown also seems nonsensical.

Is the buffer for on-street parking? Otherwise I don't understand why it would be striped like that.

^Don't think so. Pretty sure it's just dead space, like on the south side of Detroit here: http://bit.ly/1KI39Zx (link is to google maps streetview)

 

The only thing I can think of is that the city wants to set up perfectly straight intersection crossings so is unwilling to swing the bike lane out beyond the buffer if it doesn't line up with the lane in an adjacent block.  Seems pretty weak.

Bike Cleveland

‏@Bike_CLE

@WEWS @FrankWileyJr1 Cyclists have right of way,truck turns into them. Truck hit the people NOT the other way around http://www.newsnet5.com/news/local-news/oh-cuyahoga/5-bicyclists-hit-by-truck-1-killed-in-brecksville …

^Don't think so. Pretty sure it's just dead space, like on the south side of Detroit here: http://bit.ly/1KI39Zx (link is to google maps streetview)

 

The only thing I can think of is that the city wants to set up perfectly straight intersection crossings so is unwilling to swing the bike lane out beyond the buffer if it doesn't line up with the lane in an adjacent block.  Seems pretty weak.

 

In most bike lane situations you are pinned up against a curb.  If you become distracted in any way (i.e. a passing emergency vehicle), it's possible to drift right and hit the curb.  It's one of the main reasons I don't like most bike lanes.  With the buffer between the bike lane and the curb, you are much less likely to hit the curb when distracted and you can also veer left or right if there is broken glass, gravel, or some other hazard in the bike lane, which there often is.   

 

 

Seriously? You would rather get distracted and 'drift' into a passing vehicle?

Hey, I've biked way more than anyone who posts on this website and I've never gotten hit or gotten close to hit by a car.  Most of that before bike lanes existed anywhere in the Midwest.  Nobody who was biking in the 80s and 90s was complaining about a lack of bike lanes or the specifics of their design because there weren't any and there weren't any hopes of any. 

 

For an example of what I was talking about, if you look over your left shoulder at traffic (be it vehicular or another bicycle), there can be a tendency to drift right...right into the curb.  Recently I had an oncoming police car suddenly put its lights on (but not siren) and act like it was going to do a U-turn.  The bike lane itself was curving and as I looked over my shoulder to see what the hell the police car was doing I unknowingly started drifting toward the curb.  I watched the police car a blink longer than I should have and when I looked forward again I saw I was a little closer to the curb than I expected to be, and instinctively over-corrected.  I didn't fall (I have never fallen as an adult) but could have and probably would have ruined an expensive road bike wheel. 

Cleveland's bike share system could have hundreds of bicycles by spring http://t.co/mYMsoUhqpz @clevelanddotcom

Congrats Cincy & CLE 4 landing in Top Ten list of cities adding bike commuters! http://www.gcbl.org/blog/2015/10/rust-belt-wheelers-lead-us-in-bike-commute-growth

Another murderer has struck -- and so far has gotten away with it, too.

 

fox8news ‏@fox8news  7s8 seconds ago

70-year-old cyclist killed in hit and run http://link.fox8.com/1jZqSOR 

Welp, this is disappointing. I don't like the type of infrastructure that CycleHop uses for their bike share. It seems like this is the "cheap" option for doing a bike share system, which is what I was afraid of. I hope I'm wrong

 

 

CycleHop-SoBi Selected as Preferred Bike Share Vendor

 

Cuyahoga County to Open Contract Negotiations for a Spring 2016 Rollout

 

Cleveland, OH – The Cuyahoga County Department of Sustainability, in partnership with Bike Cleveland, announces CycleHop-SoBi as the preferred vendor for a formal bike share system in Cleveland. Cuyahoga County will now enter contract negotiations with the goal of bringing a downtown based system ahead of the Republican National Convention in July of next year. The goal will be to expand into University Circle and other neighborhoods as additional funding is secured.

 

Working with Bike Cleveland, Cuyahoga County was awarded $357,000 in federal funds from the Northeast Ohio Areawide Coordinating Agency (NOACA) to bring a formal bike share system to Cleveland. The federal funds have been matched by local contributions from the Saint Luke’s Foundation, the George Gund Foundation, Destination Cleveland, Cleveland Neighborhood Progress, and Donna & Stewart Kohl.

 

Bike Cleveland released a request for proposal, and a group of stakeholders formed a selection committee to review the responses. Members of that committee include, Cuyahoga County, Bike Cleveland, the City of Cleveland, Cuyahoga County Planning, University Circle Inc., Greater Cleveland RTA, Cleveland Metroparks, Cuyahoga County Board of Health, Cleveland Neighborhood Progress, Cleveland Public Library, and members of the local business community. The selection process was observed by representatives from the Ohio Department of Transportation.

 

“Bringing large scale bike share to the City of Cleveland is incredibly exciting,” said Jacob VanSickle, Executive Director of Bike Cleveland. “CycleHop put forth a very strong proposal and we definitely selected the best bike share vendor for Cleveland.”

 

“This is a great project to work on, and we think it will have a positive impact on the city that people will notice immediately,” said Mike Foley, Director, Cuyahoga County Department of Sustainability.

 

The bike share program is a private-public partnership, and the business model relies on corporate sponsorship. Business and property owners may participate and support the program through sponsorship, adopt-a-station, and the purchase of memberships. For more information please contact [email protected].

 

 

About CycleHop-SoBi

CycleHop is the largest ‘smart bike’ bike share operations company in North America. CycleHop plans, funds, deploys, and operates municipal and campus bike share programs. CycleHop’s technology partner, Social Bicycles (SoBi), is a leader and innovator of bike share equipment and related software. At the core of SoBi’s success is its ‘smart bike’ technology with a proprietary GPS-equipped locking mechanism embedded on a classic Dutch-frame bike (rather than on a docking station). With the flexibility of an on board lock and GPS, this smart bike approach dramatically reduces costs, creates a modern and flexible user experience, allows for more scalable bike share operations, generates valuable and usable trip data, and unlocks new revenue channels via interaction with mobile and bicycle screens. SoBi equipment is currently serving or being deployed in the following cities: Orlando, Tampa, Buffalo, Hamilton ON, Ottawa ON, Long Beach NY, Atlanta, Phoenix, Mesa, Topeka, Boise, Santa Monica, Beverly Hills, West Hollywood, Long Beach CA, and Portland.

- See more at: http://executive.cuyahogacounty.us/en-US/CycleHop-SoBi.aspx#sthash.y1CDZv9Y.dpuf

 

http://executive.cuyahogacounty.us/en-US/CycleHop-SoBi.aspx#sthash.y1CDZv9Y.dpuf

CLE bike lane battle now viral, engineers across the country say they would set them up differently

Other engineers say CLE bike lanes are backwards

Joe Pagonakis

9:54 PM, Nov 17, 2015

11:36 PM, Nov 17, 2015

 

CLEVELAND - It's been a battle that has been brewing for a few months: Are Cleveland's new bike lanes set-up backwards?

 

Some engineers across the country say yes.

 

Engineers from Atlanta, Denver, Indianapolis and other cities are commenting that Cleveland's bike lane arrangement isn't something they would use. The engineers comments posted on-line stated they would put the buffer zone between traffic and the bike lane.

 

MORE:

http://www.newsnet5.com/news/cle-bike-lane-battle-now-viral-engineers-across-the-country-say-they-would-set-them-up-differently

CLE bike lane battle now viral, engineers across the country say they would set them up differently

Other engineers say CLE bike lanes are backwards

 

These bike lanes are idiotic. The only person alive who believes this was done correctly is city engineer Alex Cross.

 

 

 

^ Andy* Cross

I'm baffled by this. I'm sure in some specific instances this may be a preferable configuration...but I don't see any reason here.  And Andy Cross' explanation makes no sense.  Why would this configuration discourage 'hook' turns and the other promote them?

 

Some in the attached article were citing it as an area to place plowed snow, but that is silly as well. Andy Cross sounds more like a stubborn designer who 'knows more' then all of these publications seem to.

More Bike Boxes are on their way, this time near the Cuyahoga River

November 23, 2015 UPDATED 20 HOURS AGO

By LYDIA COUTRE

 

Three Bike Boxes, offering sheltered parking for bicycles, are slated to be installed near the Cuyahoga River.

 

The Port of Cleveland and Flats Forward teamed up to fund and install the new bicycle shelters, which were originally developed by LAND studio.

 

Exactly where the repurposed metal shipping containers will be installed is yet to be determined, said Jacob VanSickle, executive director of Bike Cleveland, who expects them to be installed by next summer.

 

Bike Boxes have been popping up in other Cleveland neighborhoods, including Edgewater Park and Ohio City.

 

MORE:

http://www.crainscleveland.com/article/20151123/NEWS/151129924/more-bike-boxes-are-on-their-way-this-time-near-the-cuyahoga-river

I just found out that ODOT is having a feedback session on planned US / OH bicycle routes. (This Wednesday evening at Merwin's Wharf).

http://www.dot.state.oh.us/districts/D12/Documents/ODOT-BikeRoute-OpenHouse.pdf

 

ODOT Open House Seeks Comments on Proposed Bike Routes: Planning For Greater Cleveland

The Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) is developing a network of U.S. and state bicycle routes in Ohio and is seeking public feedback at an open house to ensure the routes are as safe as possible.

http://tinyurl.com/z8bv2bk

 

The interactive GIS tool for the proposed routes is pretty cool (it didn't work well in Chrome, had to use safari). My house would along a bike route, so I'm pretty happy to see that. I'm not sure if the bike routes mean that there would be striping the streets to add bike lanes, sharrows, signage, or if this is a (Bike Route In Name Only - BRINO). I am glad to see ODOT putting some weight into this. I see a big disconnect between City of Cleveland's bike route planning (they have a good looking masterplan, and are actively expanding), and then the surrounding suburbs. It would help to have an overall masterplanner (ODOT), and then have the cities sign on board too. Then you can have connected bike routes. As opposed to hey, town X has this cool bike lane, which ends as soon as you change cities.

 

(Not sure if on topic).

I have a proposed route adjustment in Rocky River / Lakewood, but it would require a road diet / reshaping of the Marion Ct / Lake Rd / Clifton Rd interchange. Posted over at: http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php/topic,8230.210.html#ixzz3yKF7ulpS

The abstract of my change is to downgrade the mini-freeway (its less than a mile long), remove the on-ramps/off-ramps, and make it a regular complete street with sidewalks/bike paths.

Midway bike network. I'm just catching up, I haven't heard about this until today. First, it would be amazing to have cycle tracks, having your own travel space that can't be entered by vehicles, and your own signals that ensures that bike/vehicle collisions are prevented. I'm remembering my time in Copenhagen, where I felt quite safe and relaxed while biking. (CPH has lots of bike lanes, a brand new autonomous metro, their energy grid is 50%+ wind, whats not to love).

 

I would absolutely use the Yellow/Lorain cycle track, every weekday on Lorain between Fairview Park and West Park Station (rapid station or maybe the eponymous bar too). And, perhaps take that route all the way in to downtown, if I felt like biking the whole 10 miles. I've got a pair of nice old french Peugeot road bikes, they can handle that distance.

 

My question on the Midway routes. Could one dig into the details on how one could come up with a lane diagram for the entire length of each route? Or is that lots of detailed engineering and block by block analysis to come up with that? I think if you show one neighborhood the full route plan, and then show them their parcel, they might opt for the cheapest solution, or most non-lane-invasive option. But if you had a full system map, with how the street lanes would work, perhaps people could buy into the full network concept. Not wanting to be the bottleneck that forces the bikes onto vehicle lanes, and is the less safe corridor.

 

Also, how does a project like this proceed? Lots of NOACA TLCI grants.. Or does that just give you analysis. I imagine there has to be lots of citizen meetings with tar, feathers, pitch forks. But eventually / hopefully a solution gets picked by cities that own the streets, and they start reshaping and restriping the streets?

 

I do really like the idea of NACTO / livable / pedestrian friendly streets. On a street such as Lorain near the West Park neighborhood, most of the traffic issues that I see are that there is a lot of turning going on, so a vehicle going straight has to weave between lanes to dodge the car turning across the median to get to Dunkin Donuts, and then your normal intersection turning. So even as it is, its not a great road even for the cars, so changes ought to be welcome. And making these districts more people friendly should encourage further growth and development.