ClevelandDesignCity

In the world of architecture and urban design, images can have enormous powers of persuasion.

This explains why several groups of citizen activists enlisted the aid of Kent State University’s Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative to create a rendering of what a bike lane and pedestrian path might look like on the proposed new Interstate 90 bridge over the Cuyahoga River.

The Ohio Department of Transportation has refused for years to consider a bike lane on the bridge, now projected to cost $450 million, contending it’s cheaper and more feasible to provide alternate bike routes on surface streets to other spans, including the Lorain-Carnegie (Hope Memorial) Bridge… (go to article)