December 19, 201410 yr Too conservative is more like it, Gramarye. Money can be budgeted and raised. It's all a matter of policy and priority. Possibly, but they have a $650 million sewer project going on.
December 19, 201410 yr Not to be callous or anything, but the point of going a half step forward is to be further ahead than you were before. What you're talking about could cost hundreds of millions of dollars, not tens. That money simply isn't there and likely won't be there for the foreseeable future; we are, after all, talking about land that isn't exceptionally valuable otherwise (contrast, e.g., reclaiming freeway spurs that go into the heart of downtowns in larger cities like D.C.) and therefore isn't worth an enormous up-front expense to reclaim. A journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step...
December 19, 201410 yr I wonder where they took all the fill initially. Usually it's not that far away.
December 19, 201410 yr What Akron's Inner Belt was originally intended to be and to connect with.... 1963, a freeway was planned where the Towpath Trail stands today. In the name of [genuflect] "economic development" http://t.co/qksYnqfoEv "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
December 23, 201410 yr 46 years later (1970-2016), the Innerbelt will be deconstructed in the same order it was built. This is from 1978... "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
May 24, 20232 yr Akron will install 21 speed tables to curb speeding in neighborhoods Ideastream Public Media | By Anna Huntsman Published May 23, 2023 "Officials will install 21 speed tables on 11 streets beginning in June, as part of an ongoing effort to curb speeds in neighborhood areas, according to a Tuesday news release. ... The city of Akron and the Akron Metropolitan Area Transportation Study (AMATS) conducted a small pilot program in 2020 that found speed tables in two locations were effective in reducing speeds, according to the release. Officials expanded the program last summer by installing tables in each of the city’s 10 wards. Data collected last year showed speeds were six miles per hour lower, on average, when the tables were in use, according to the release. Additionally, the study found tables were most effective when more than one was placed on the same street." https://www.ideastream.org/community/2023-05-23/akron-will-install-21-speed-tables-to-curb-speeding-in-neighborhoods
August 7, 20231 yr Car.destroyed.our.cities with a good visual of the impact highways had on Akron. Ironically, the industry that built Akron's wealth hamstrung it's future vitality. Hopefully the redevelopment of the innerbelt reverses some of the damage done. https://www.instagram.com/p/Cvpo9gCup9R/?igshid=NjIwNzIyMDk2Mg==
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