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Sustainable transportation will get its first litmus test under the new ODOT regime this week. Under its former director, ODOT redesigned its (TRAC) scoring system to better incentivize community / economic growth, a “fix it first” strategy and environmental metrics. But the transportation agency didn’t get to building a project that proved the concept. Under a [...]
CLEVELAND, Ohio – RTA will shelve plans to expand its popular trolley service and better link college campuses downtown following cuts announced Tuesday by the Ohio Department of Transportation. ODOT Director Jerry Wray said $50 million in federal funds committed this year to the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority and transit agencies statewide would be sliced by [...]
RTA’s future lies in fortifying its busiest bus routes and using them to spur redevelopment, transit planners say. That’s among strategies crystallizing in RTA’s blueprint for the next decade. The Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority board is expected to adopt a new strategic plan this spring. The vision includes extending RTA’s rail lines to the east [...]
The Regional Transit Authority is pouring $2.7 million into the renovation of the Woodhill and East. 93rd Street rapid station. It will be the first major construction at the site since the station was built in 1983, and the debilitation testifies to the neglect. RTA plans to start the project by the end of 2010 [...]
CLEVELAND, Ohio — RTA has landed $2.2 million for a slew of new services in and around downtown Cleveland, including a night-time trolley service and a route serving the rock hall and science center. The money covers just one year of operation. The Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority hopes that Gov.-elect John Kasich’s administration will support [...]
CLEVELAND HEIGHTS — It will soon be easier and safer for residents to get from here to downtown Cleveland, thanks to a grant that will renovate the University Circle rapid station. The Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority has been awarded a $10.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation to reconstruct the University Circle [...]
How is the comfort of transit riders in Northeast Ohio faring in the Transit Waiting Environments (TWE) program? Greater Cleveland RTA established the TWE program to improve the experience of waiting for the bus or train, and to attract new riders with better amenities.Riders were surveyed a few years back, and they wanted amenities like better [...]
Local artists apparently were not enthralled by the city’s $5,000 contest to create public art. Only five applications were submitted by the May 21st deadline. The winning idea will grace a soon-to-be built high-end RTA bus stop in front of the INA building, near the corner of Detroit Ave. and Warren Rd. The new nearly [...]
CLEVELAND, Ohio — RTA’s HealthLine — a bus/rapid transit touted as a faster, more efficient way to travel Euclid Avenue — is moving at about the same slow pace as the bus it replaced. Cleveland is still adjusting traffic lights on Euclid Avenue from Public Square to the Stokes/Windermere rapid station in East Cleveland to [...]
CLEVELAND, Ohio — Cleveland plans to build a long-awaited intermodal transportation center near the lakefront to link the new medical mart, convention center and Flats East Bank redevelopment. The center, north of the east edge of Mall C, would serve rail passengers, motorists, pedestrians and bicyclists. It would likely extend over railroad tracks to just [...]
Remember the song on Sesame Street that went “One of these things is not like the other…”? Alright then, so: between this, this, andthis, which one stands out? Why? Well, if you picked the last one, and then told yourself because the user interface design is more buckshot than thoughtfully placed, you win. Unless of course you are [...]
CLEVELAND, Ohio – RTA riders soon will be able to receive instant messages telling them their bus or rapid train is late, their route suddenly changed or that the weather or some other emergency has altered their travel plans. The agency is getting into social media in a big way, joining a growing number of transit [...]
Today’s e-newsletter from the GCRTA asks me to click a link so that I can inform my legislative representatives that I think more money should be supporting public transportation. Which I do. I believe that wholeheartedly. I believe it with a deep seated burning passion that easy and logical public transit is paramount to livable communities. [...]
More support from the Plain Dealer for a bike/ped path on the Innerbelt Bridge. Support from all corners of the community has emboldened the City Planning Commission, which will vote on a resolution of support this Friday. This is more than a symbolic gesture. The Planning Commission will appoint three committee members who will draft the RFQ for the [...]
Ohio’s public transit passengers got a big lump of coal from state lawmakers again this year. Lorain’s transit system was forced to completely shut down after a ballot initiative to increase sales tax support failed (and the state didn’t make a move to save it). In Cleveland, the recession and pathetically low state support has forced the Greater Cleveland [...]
As if the last few rounds of fare hikes and service cuts haven’t already crushed RTA and its riders, the proposed round of service cuts for next April will be absolutely devastating. It’s not just that some routes are being eliminated or cutback and frequency again reduced. If you look at the anticipated service changes, one [...]
The Plain Dealer published some devastating RTA ridership numbers last weekend. If 2009 plays out as expected, RTA will have its lowest year of ridership since the agency was formed in the mid-70s. Last month I argued here that RTA fares are among the highest in the country, which led some to ask me how RTA fares [...]
The city of Cleveland will pay $900,000 for 2.4 acres on Euclid Avenue, where the state plans to build a regional psychiatric facility. Board members of the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority voted Tuesday to sell the land for the project. The RTA acquired the land using federal money in 2005 as part of the [...]
What is a sustainable funding model for public transit? RTA explains in transit economics 101 a little known fact: The fare box covers only about 20 percent of the total cost of providing each trip. That means that every transit system in the nation loses money on every customer. The Civilian Conservation Corps planted a billion [...]
Are you interested in improving the functionality and aesthetics of RTA’s wayfinding signage? Well, now’s your chance to influence the design process. The Transit Improvement Advisory Committee (TIAC), a sub-committee of the RTA Citizen Advisory Board, will have it’s monthly meeting this Friday, Oct. 2nd from 8:30-10:00 am at RTA’s main offices on W. 6th St. in [...]
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