You don't need to be a transportation planner to conclude that connecting 30% of the population with high-speed rail in the 9th biggest economy on the planet is important.

Walk audit of State Road in Old Brooklyn with Bike Cleveland. The street is up for improvement in next few years. Lots of depaving, tree planting & traffic calming opportunity. Also reviewed the new Broadview Reimagined report at Six Shooter Coffee after. #OldBrooklnSundaySaturation

The City of Cleveland is launching Cleveland Moves, a 5-year multimodal transportation plan to help guide future initiatives that make the city better to walk, scoot, cycle, and ride through! Add to the interactive map, sign up for updates, and learn more: clevelandohio.gov/cleveland-moves

Congratulations to Philip Morris on wonderful news about joining The Minnesota Star Tribune: startribune.com/award-winning-…

True story. Amazing that HOK St. Louis overlooked the off-axis design for the tower until Morrison told Mayor Voinovich about it. The city then bought property enabling BP to move the tower east to the axial centerline of the Mall, avoiding a huge goof.

Whew! Bedrock Cleveland and Cleveland CPC wisely dump a troubling centerpiece idea from Cuyahoga riverfront plan — Commentary cleveland.com/news/2024/07/w…

Interesting perspective from Euclid Avenue shows how Sherwin Williams tower appears to gesture respectfully to Terminal Tower.

Former Cleveland Medical Mart becomes what it was always meant to be: part of city’s convention center – Commentary cleveland.com/news/2024/07/f… County Planning Cleveland CPC Destination Cleveland Downtown Cleveland

You can read more about Phil Kidd's journey here: tinyurl.com/yhakfysr

Is Cleveland’s Little Italy in danger of being loved to death? cleveland.com/news/2024/07/i…

Latest plans for downtown Cleveland lakefront show city could revamp Shoreway with or without Browns Stadium cleveland.com/news/2024/08/l…

Civic unity was the topic of a lakefront trail groundbreaking until someone mentioned the Cleveland Browns cleveland.com/news/2024/08/c… Cleveland CPC Chris Ronayne Cleveland Metroparks Phil Kidd

Clase Cleveland Guardians !

Glad to see this news from Julie Washington: MetroHealth pledges to rebuild community trust as it considers ‘hospital in a park’ cleveland.com/metro/2024/08/…

Some personal news: I'm calling it - 30 - after 44 yrs of daily deadlines, 33 in CLE. Deeply grateful to The Plain Dealer & Cleveland.com, my readers and this wonderful city. Available for coffee, conversations about art, architecture, city planning.

.Cleveland Orchestra Bruckner 4 last night with Franz Welser-Möst helming was a performance for the ages. Wow!

Love this Abstract Expressionist squiggle on St. Clair Ave. in downtown #Cleveland Cleveland CPC County Planning Joyce 潘敏 lillian kuri

Art history in action The Cleveland Museum of Art

Finally, there's reason to hope NOACA will find a logical solution to traffic congestion around I-71 in Brunswick-Strongsville, as Rich Exner reports: cleveland.com/politics/2024/…

I admire John Wesley Powell for his courage and esp. his advocacy of watershed-based govt. (tinyurl.com/mtdynj8r), but uhaul might want to rethink the Indiana Jones flavor of this promo. Canyons and rivers in the SW were known by earlier inhabitants.