Ohio
500 People Ate Dinner on a Freeway in Akron This Weekend
How's this for a creative reuse of outdated 20th century infrastructure? This weekend, 500 people in Akron, Ohio, sat down and had dinner together on the Innerbelt Freeway.
October 5, 2015
Ohio Cities to State DOT: No More New Roads, Just Fix What We Have
Given that the federal Highway Trust Fund is broke and the Interstate Highway System is more or less complete, maybe -- just maybe! -- it doesn't make sense to keep expanding highways. And if there's one place in the country where it's especially urgent to stop building more highways, it's northeast Ohio.
April 2, 2015
How the Lure of Spending Keeps Dumb Highway Projects Alive
Decades ago, Ohio officials drew a line on a map -- the Eastern Corridor, a highway for commuters living in Cincinnati's eastern suburbs. No matter how much time has passed and how little sense it makes to build that highway today, that line can still seem like destiny.
March 2, 2015
Ohio DOT’s Defense of the Transit-Inaccessible Transit Meeting
On Friday, the Ohio Department of Transportation held a meeting ostensibly to gather feedback from transit riders in the Dayton and Cincinnati regions. But ODOT held the meeting in exurban Lebanon -- a hour's trip by car from Cincinnati and totally inaccessible by transit from either city.
November 3, 2014
Documentary to Explore Racial Discrimination in Transportation Planning
Beavercreek, Ohio, nabbed its own infamous place in civil rights history last year, when the Federal Highway Administration ruled that the suburb had violated anti-discrimination laws by blocking bus service from nearby Dayton.
October 29, 2014
How Two Regions Reined in Job Piracy — And Two Others Failed
They call it "intra-regional job piracy" -- when one town uses tax breaks to lure employers from neighboring towns.
July 11, 2014
How 3 Communities Fought Discriminatory Transportation Policies
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act, which outlawed discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
July 3, 2014
Lakewood, Ohio: The Suburb Where Everyone Can Walk to School
The inner Cleveland suburb of Lakewood (population 51,000) calls itself a "walking school district." Lakewood has never had school buses in its history, and kids grow up walking and biking to school.
April 29, 2014
Akron Sets Out to Dismantle a Giant Road
Some places just talk about prioritizing transit and walking over highway construction. But Akron, Ohio, is putting its money where its mouth is.
February 3, 2014
Warning Signs From Columbus About America’s Big Suburban Housing Glut
Columbus, Ohio, is a convenient microcosm of the United States as a whole.
January 24, 2014