Ken Prendergast

Ken Prendergast has worked as a journalist for publications such as NEOtrans, Sun Newspapers, Ohio Passenger Rail News, Passenger Transport, and others. He also provided consulting services to transportation agencies, real estate firms, port authorities and nonprofit organizations. Writing about cities, transportation, history and the people who create these.

Enhance Clifton starts Sept 13, merchants fear traffic detours

Now that contractors were chosen for $25 million worth of transit and pedestrian enhancements to Clifton Boulevard, a formal groundbreaking ceremony is scheduled for Sept. 13. But after the West Shoreway was closed for two weeks this past summer for the filming of Captain America, Clifton’s merchants want to know how construction of Enhance Clifton […]

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America’s first Interstate to be abandoned – when and where?

Sometime in the next 5-15 years, a remarkable event could occur. The first section of Interstate or interstate-quality highway will be abandoned somewhere in this country due to a lack of funds.
It will probably be a short, lightly used section of road with a decaying, expensive bridge in the middle of it. The highway department responsible for closing that section of road will try to minimize the significance of the event by calling it a temporary closure.

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Cleveland may be jumping out of recession

By Ken Prendergast    For metropolitan areas, how they emerge from recessions is a lot like how companies emerge from bankruptcies. Did they learn anything? Are they leaner and more efficient Have they positioned themselves to grab growth opportunities from the coming economic upswing?    Unlike the last two recessions in the early 1990s and early

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