{"id":17874,"date":"2014-08-22T16:02:44","date_gmt":"2014-08-22T20:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress-367309-1145705.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=17874"},"modified":"2014-08-22T17:54:17","modified_gmt":"2014-08-22T21:54:17","slug":"clevelands-unique-take-rails-to-trails-streetcar-lines-bike-lanes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/clevelands-unique-take-rails-to-trails-streetcar-lines-bike-lanes\/","title":{"rendered":"Cleveland’s Unique Take on Rails to Trails: Streetcar Lines to Bike Lanes"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Rails to Trails movement<\/a> has a wide variety of transportation repurposing projects to its credit: from New York City’s High Line<\/a> – a park\/walking space on an old railroad trestle – to Missouri’s state-spanning Katy Trail<\/a>. In Cleveland, clean transportation proponents have take a look at former streetcar rights-of-way,\u00a0and thought “Hey… those could make good protected bike lanes.” They could also bring some economic activity to locations largely deserted since the streetcar ran by them.<\/p>\n

That’s the genesis of the Midway project, which Cynthia Shahan from Cleantechnica<\/a> has covered in more detail…<\/p>\n

Cleveland Bike Lanes Where Old Streetcar Lanes Once Flourished<\/h3>\n

August 22nd, 2014 by\u00a0Cynthia Shahan<\/a><\/p>\n

Many America cities revolved around streetcars in the last century. In Cleveland<\/a>, the streets Lorain, Superior, and Euclid were core to the city\u2019s streetcar\u00a0system, running to all\u00a0of the\u00a0city\u2019s neighborhoods. As cars crept in and replaced streetcars, these core modes of trransport and\u00a0cosmopolitan life fell away. Streetcar tracks paved with cement left wide empty streets longing for more stores. The streets showed vacancies due to population shifts to the suburbs and lack of nearby pedestrians and streetcar riders in wait.<\/p>\n

But\u00a0Clevelanders\u00a0now\u00a0propose to bring activity back to these areas. Local bicycle advocates intend to bring about a more diverse transportation system in\u00a0Cleveland once again. Their proposal, named Midway, will manifest as green, landscaped, center-running, two-way bike lanes traversing the city, right where the former streetcar lanes once flourished.<\/p>\n

\"Image\u00a0Image: Bialosky & Partners, via\u00a0Streetsblog<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

St. Clair Superior Development loved the idea and transformed St. Clarie Avenue (see\u00a0visualization\u00a0above). Joining with the Midway team, they built this first segment with\u00a0a grant from the Kresge Foundation.<\/p>\n

Barb Clint, a board member at Bike Cleveland, the city\u2019s bike advocacy group, and another Bike Cleveland board member, John McGovern, initiated the Midway plan. \u201cIt seems so obvious to me,\u201d said Barb Clint, director of community health and advocacy at the YMCA of Greater Cleveland.<\/p>\n

Clint continues in Streetsblog<\/a>:\u00a0\u201dWe have these massive streets, with severely low volumes of traffic. They\u2019re not comfortable to walk along, they\u2019re not comfortable to bike along because people are driving so fast.\u00a0We can\u2019t preach at people and tell them they should be more physically active if we\u2019re not providing them safe places to do so.\u201d<\/p>\n

The streetcar lanes run throughout the city. Advocates believe with some paint and bollards, this transformation will be inexpensive and scaled up if it does well. \"Image<\/a> Other bike path stories show the widespread\u00a0transition of city streets to include bike lanes. Check out these cool ideas and other news:<\/p>\n

The Copenhagenize Flow<\/a><\/p>\n

$600 Pop-Up Protected Bike Lane Makes the Case for Permanent Bikeways<\/a><\/p>\n

Bike Paths and Sidewalks: Transportation Investments that Work<\/a><\/p>\n

Lego-Like, Elegant Bike Lanes That Snap Together<\/a><\/p>\n

Toronto Doctors Argue Bike Lanes Save Lives<\/a><\/p>\n

Take An Apple & A Bike-Share A Day; Boston Doctors Prescribing Bicycling<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cleveland’s Midway project has a rails to trails feel about it: bicycling advocates want to turn old streetcar right-of-way into protected bike lanes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":17875,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,13],"tags":[7155,8,7158,7156,7153,7157,7154,68],"yoast_head":"\nRails to Trails in Cleveland: Streetcar Space to Bike Lanes<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Cleveland's Midway project has a rails to trails feel about it: bicycling advocates want to turn old streetcar right-of-way into protected bike lanes.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/clevelands-unique-take-rails-to-trails-streetcar-lines-bike-lanes\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta 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