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Enhance Clifton starts Sept 13, merchants fear traffic detours

Ken Prendergast / August 21, 2013

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?

Ken Prendergast / October 14, 2012

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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The 2011 Cleveland Browns, a 1985 redux?

Ken Prendergast / July 22, 2012

To me, NFL training camp is one of the most enjoyable occasions in pro sports. It is a time when otherwise inaccessible football players are accessible. It is when you can sit (or stand) with die-hard football fans in the scorching summer sun in Berea, dissect the repetitions of players and pretend to be a coach for a day.

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County offices may move to East 9th & Euclid after all

Ken Prendergast / March 2, 2012

Although Cuyahoga County leaders officially remain mum on the subject, it looks like county administration offices may be moving to the corner of East 9th Street and Euclid Avenue after all. But it’s not the same destination desired by the previous county commission government.

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Huge Cleveland Transit-Oriented Development To Move Forward

Ken Prendergast / February 22, 2012

According to sources close to the proposed development, a major Transit Oriented Development in Cleveland’s University Circle district is due to be announced publicly in a matter of days. And it features components that are more grand than were suggested in prior massings and proposals.

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Dear Gov. Kasich: building more highways isn’t cool

1 Comment / Ken Prendergast / May 13, 2011

Our dear governor sure has lots of interesting things to say. For example, he said he wants Ohioans to get on his bus or he’ll run them over with it. Odd thing is, Gov. John Kasich doesn’t like buses; doesn’t like trains much either, as we all know. He doesn’t seem to like any alternatives

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Cleveland may be jumping out of recession

3 Comments / Ken Prendergast / January 21, 2011

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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A transportation tale of two cities and states

3 Comments / Ken Prendergast / January 9, 2011

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