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  • Public art for downtown Cleveland bike station The Federal Highway Administration’s review of Ohio transportation agencies found they aren’t adequately putting cyclists and pedestrians on a level playing field with cars. FHWA found a lack of communication between MPOs—like our Northeast Areawide Coordinating Agency—and ODOT, and recommend how Ohio can turn around its “minimal coordination and guidance on bicycle and pedestrian planning and safety.”

    We agree, and add a few of our own. NOACA gets credit for publishing a Bike Plan, but coordinating and prioritizing bikes into road projects is missing. Solution? Metrics and detailed questions that will help determine if it's appropriate for bikes to be included in road projects should be added to NOACA's RFP process. Adding to FHWA’s recommendations, NOACA hasn’t prioritized which bike lanes and routes should get built in its Bike Plan. It doesn’t conduct frequent or follow up bike counts to measure where growth in bike trips can be facilitated. NOACA has no capacity analysis for cycling. It lacks coordination with RTA, which doesn’t have a bike planner, and itself lacks a bike/transit plan (RTA needs NOACA’s support planning for bike amenities like covered bike racks and lockers at train stations and busy bus stops.

    Read the FHWA report here.

    Read more GCBL bike coverage here.

  • Dr. Marcus Eriksen—who sailed the Pacific Ocean in a raft made from 15,000 soda bottles to raise awareness about the plastic gyre and its effect on fish, turtles and birds—is in Cleveland this week. Tonight, he leads a workshop on building the “Cola-hoga”—a junk raft he’ll sail from Edgewater Beach this Saturday—for locals who are signed up to build and sail their own junk rafts (GCBL is on a team that’s attempting to build one). Eriksen will keynote the Biodiversity Alliance annual meeting Friday at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, where you can view an exhibit about the plastic waste campaign.
  • (pictured) The Bike Rack—the winning entry in a Cleveland Public Art contest for the soon-to-be-built downtown bike parking station—will be unveiled at a gallery reception at CPA tomorrow (10/1). See all 30 entries and an installation by the winning artists, Scott Stibich and Mark A. Reigelman II.