Last Friday, in a boardroom at the Northeast Ohio Area Coordinating Agency, a team of transportation consultants from Columbus detailed the culmination of three years of studies done on the streets of Downtown Cleveland.
The results, in a 45-slide presentation, clarified the area's need for a makeover: To put roughly 80 percent of its streets on a road diet—shortening their widths. To build center medians on those like East 9th. To link bike lane pathways already in planning stages.
Which, the study pointed out, carries both elements of contemporary design and a glowing need to remake streets into safer transportation routes. Along with a meaty proposal for, say, throwing a center lane and bike path onto the four-to-six lane beast that is East 9th St., the study found that 40 percent of those surveyed regularly felt unsafe riding bikes or scooters.
"People have to remember that streets aren't only for automobiles," NOACA President Grace Gallucci told Scene in a call Thursday."And that's how you have to discuss this with people for to make sense. And I mean, people who are driving want to be safe too."And just as long as NOACA's been developing its study—and much, much longer in Greater Cleveland lore—ideas on which Downtown streets to overhaul have been gathering.
"To me, this is definitely not an if but a when," Gerlach added."Consultants in town to study this is important—but we all instinctively know that East 9th is dangerous."
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