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A ridiculously cool video sings the praises of access on the Innerbelt Bridge. Word is, Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson and volunteers with the Sustainable Cleveland 2019 summit work groups had a preview screening at their steering committee meeting yesterday. Click here. - A new opinion poll in the industry trade magazine Roads and Bridges asks whether there should be bike/pedestrian access on the Innerbelt. As of press, an astounding 85% of respondents feel ODOT should have included access as compared to 11% who feel ODOT did everything in their power to provide alternative routes, with only 4% responding, “Who cares…”
- During last Friday’s Cleveland Planning Commission meeting ODOT restated it does not believe in investing in access on bridges, only access on streets. Supporters of the bike and pedestrian path on the bridge, including Rep. Dennis Kucinich, haven't accepted that answer, and have started moving up the chain of command. Kucinich's letter to FHWA’s Administrator Victor Mendez is a good step in this direction. In it, Rep. Kucinich states that if “planning for the people's emerging transportation needs…is the right thing, then we ought to not be unduly tied to the planning mistakes of the past.” In the letter’s closing, Rep. Kucinich asks the Administrator to “immediately intervene” and that he would soon be in contact to schedule a follow-up.
- On Tuesday, February 9th, advocates for a multi-use path arrived early to pass out information to various designers, engineers, and contractors who showed up for ODOT’s bidders’ session held in Middleburgh Hts. The information was generally well received.
- The Plain Dealer writes that ODOT only understands the word "no," calling their view on bridge access for bikes and pedestrians a "bureaucratic runaround." Read the editorial.
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Lee Batdorff Says:ODOT ignored pleas from Midtown businesses and institutions on designing the new Innerbelt Freeway to serve the community with good access to surface streets. ODOT also ignored Cuyahoga County Engineer Paul Alsenas' concept to design the new Innerbelt bridge to allow for more developable area just south of downtown Cleveland. Obviously ODOT has a bad case of "not invented here."
The only medicine for ODOT is to continue to pound away at the agency with human oriented concepts, such as this multipurpose trail for the proposed remake of the Innerbelt bridge. With each "No" from ODOT, the agency further illuminates its anti-citizen approach to voters. The long term question is how to make use of ODOT's poor record politically to finally turn the agency around.