Jeffrey Weston Sleasman

Bus lanes make busy roads work better In almost every urban area, congestion has been rising for years despite expensive efforts to widen roads and add lanes for private vehicles. But a new study shows that when demand is high, repurposin...

Apropos of n̶o̶t̶h̶i̶n̶g̶ certain local goings on.

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7 Reasons Bike Lanes and Sidewalks Are Good for Drivers - Toole Design Here's our list of 7 reasons why federal funding for bicyclists, pedestrians, and transit riders improves the transportation experience for drivers, too.

Say it again!

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Cleveland artist turns historic Greyhound bus into museum Robert Louis Brandon Edwards has been working to convert a vehicle that carried Black Americans north during the Great Migration

Kinda hoping Playhouse Square lets Robert take on the whole building, TBH!

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For These Old Bus Stations, It’s Not the End of the Line The streamlined depots built by Greyhound in the middle of the 20th century reflected a more optimistic era for bus travel. A lucky few are finding new uses.

My latest, for CityLab, on Greyhound bus stations. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

The business they spoke to is so good and so strong that I'm sure its model doesn't depend on free storage for private capital possessions on public land. They'll surely get *way* more turnovers if parking were actually available from time to time instead of being swallowed up for an entire shift.

Would it cost employees more? Maybe! If they absolutely insist on driving to work. The solution? Well, pay them more! Or offer transportation benefits for alternative ways of getting there.

Employees and business owners taking up all the spaces all the time puts pressure on residents, visitors, and customers. Customers for both their own stores AND the stores of businesses who *don't* tie up street parking all day every day.

Cleveland's Hingetown neighborhood residents concerned about new paid parking rollout Cleveland's new parking system started in mid-January in Downtown Cleveland. It brought the end of parking meters and free weekend parking. Hourly parking now begins at $1.50 per hour.

I do think there's something to be said for a residential parking program for folks like the one (!) resident they spoke to

But the business? Sorry, no. Business owners and employees parking all day every day is exactly what paid parking is trying to mitigate

www.news5cleveland.com/news/local-n...

What Happens When the Snow Doesn’t Melt? The icy buildups blocking crosswalks around New York have been dubbed sneckdowns. Some urbanists think they offer a vision of a less car-dependent city.

Long live the sneckdown!

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The 'Affordability Crisis' Conversation Can't Leave Out the Cost of Cars — Streetsblog USA We can't talk about Americans' empty wallets without talking about our empty buses and sidewalks and overall dependence on automobiles.

"America can no longer afford to ignore the urgency of providing more mobility options and recentering automobiles in our day to day life."

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Said photo:

"Married in Cleveland and honeymooned at the Statler. 1926."

The real story of Burns’ and Allen’s marriage here 100 years ago: John Vacha Happy 100th anniversary, Gracie and George, writes guest columnist and Cleveland historian and writer John Vacha, who researched the details of the Jan. 7, 1926 marriage in Cleveland of the famed Burn...

Fun and funny. And also: there is (or was?) a photo hanging on the wall of the lobby of the Statler of Burns and Allen.

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Quieter Streets Linked to Increase in Home Prices If your home is about a football-field length from new sound barriers, the value will go up.

"traffic noise reduces property values by about $110 billion nationally."

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American cities have too many streets, parking lots, and garages We're discovering that car-dependent places can't sustain the human activities they were meant to enable.

"Like Midas discovering he couldn’t eat golden food, we’re discovering that car-dependent places can’t sustain the human activities they were meant to enable. The infrastructure that promised connection now isolates. What began as freedom morphed into obligation"

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screengrab of massing model with point access blocks

you know how i keep saying single stair buildings are workhorse of walkable urbanism the world over?

here are 174 homes on a 2.2 acre block in seattle.

(16) 4-5 story single stair buildings.

what do you think FAR is?
what about lot coverage?
unit distribution?

"sprawl leads to an auto-centric and socially polarizing society, which negatively affects national well-being"

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Smart Growth and Construction Jobs: How Urban Density Benefits Union Density - Good Jobs First Smart Growth and Construction Jobs: How Urban Density Benefits Union Density - Good Jobs First

"A review of all available evidence for the past 22 years confirms that smart growth — including transit-oriented development and other strategies for managing urban expansion — creates more construction work & higher wages than suburban sprawl."

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Transform : Traffic Congestion Is a Housing and Transit Problem, Not a Highway Problem - Streetsblog California Even the smartest engineer will come up with the wrong answer when they start with the wrong assumptions.

"Highway widening as the go-to solution for traffic congestion is a failure of attention and imagination."

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Study: Removing Parking Minimums Leads to More Affordable Housing — Streetsblog USA Removing parking requirements for new buildings could help thousands of Coloradans who struggle to afford housing — and it might work elsewhere, too.

Study: Removing Parking Minimums Leads to More Affordable Housing - usa.streetsblog.org/2025/10/22/s...

‘Car Brain’ Is Making the US Unhealthy and Dangerous. EVs Won’t Fix It. A trio of new books argue that we need to confront the full range of costs that car-based living has imposed on our cities, our health and our society.

Three newly published books argue that cars are destroying society as well as the planet.

Is the world finally ready to rein in the automobile?

My essay, in @bloomberg.com (gift link below)

5 Myths About Complete Streets (and the Truth Behind Them) Do Complete Streets cause traffic jams, hurt businesses, or slow emergency response? Not at all. This blog breaks down five common myths with real-world examples that show how safer, healthier, and mo...

5 Myths About Complete Streets (and the Truth Behind Them)

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More Transit Means Safer Streets — Streetsblog USA Promoting transit isn't just a social good. It's also a tool to achieve Vision Zero.

More Transit Means Safer Streets - usa.streetsblog.org/2025/09/30/m...

Pedestrian, cyclist crashes raise alarm in Westlake, Rocky River and beyond Westlake and Rocky River officials have responded to recent accidents near schools with speed monitoring, increased enforcement and public education campaigns.

The sadness and tragedy are only surpassed by the inevitability.

We've built an entire mobility system entirely and solely for cars. The harm that causes is unavoidable.

www.cleveland.com/news/2025/10...

America Has a Golden Opportunity to End the 'Highway Boondoggle' Crisis — Streetsblog USA America's wasteful highway spending has gotten out of control — and if President Trump really wants to promote efficient government, he'll urge Congress to stop it.

America Has a Golden Opportunity to End the ‘Highway Boondoggle’ Crisis - usa.streetsblog.org/2025/10/09/a...

Spike in bicycle/scooter accidents prompts safety message in Rocky River Rocky River city and school officials are teaming up to deliver a message to students and the public that drivers, pedestrians and bicycle, scooter and e-bike riders all share responsibility for shari...

Also, while we're at it... Let's blame car drivers for the crashes they cause.

Public notice about pedestrian and bike safety/behavior isn't necessary, meaningful, or effective when *all three* of these crashes were caused by adult drivers hitting kids with cars

www.cleveland.com/community/20...

I also realize that there's a semantic debate here about what constitutes an "e-bike" and what constitutes an electric motorcycle. I don't really have anything to say about that.

The simple rules many e-bike riders ignore, leading to complaints and injuries As e-bike popularity grows, Northeast Ohio officials stress importance of following traffic laws and trail etiquette

When someone rides an e-bike (or any bike!) on the sidewalk, it's really an unspoken request for a bike lane.

Give it to them.

After all, bike lanes makes car travel safer, too!

Banning e-bikes writ large is the wrong approach in all circumstances.

www.cleveland.com/news/2025/10...

Board Meeting - 2025-09-23 YouTube video by GCRTALive

There's a whole convo prior to this moment, but at this morning's board meeting, one particularly aloof trustee wanted to be clear about the intent RE: the remaining six vehicles.

www.youtube.com/live/5DNJKVb...

The Road That Killed Legend Jenkins Was Working Exactly as Designed When a child is killed on a street like West Hudson Boulevard, it’s not a tragic fluke. It’s the outcome we designed for.

Case study

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