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One in four Cleveland households will see no benefit from the proposed new Innerbelt bridge because they don’t have cars. And, as research from some transportation advocates has found, the situation is even worse in the neighborhoods on either side of the proposed span.

On the Tremont side, according to NEO CANDO (a census database maintained by Case Western Reserve University), nearly 30 percent of households don’t have cars, as Green City Blue Lake’s Brad Chase discovered. And on the other side — the Central neighborhood, one of Cleveland’s poorest — nearly two-thirds (65 percent) of households lack access to a car, and therefore will see no benefit from the half-billion dollar bridge for which ODOT currently seeks approval… (go to article)