Ohio transit group asks for federal inquiry into RTA’s search for new railcars
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An RTA railcar moves along the track at Shaker Square in Cleveland on June 11, 2015. A transit advocacy group on Wednesday asked the federal government to open an inquiry into RTA s procurement process for new railcars.
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CLEVELAND, Ohio Ohio transit advocacy group All Aboard Ohio has asked the federal government to open an inquiry into the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority’s procurement process for new railcars.
The advocacy group said Wednesday that it submitted the request to the Federal Transit Administration’s inspector general after it was told by “sources at GCRTA and at a railcar manufacturer” that RTA twice denied deadline extensions sought by one or more manufacturers, who wanted more time to respond to RTA’s pending request for proposals.
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The inside of La Sagrada Familia Church on Cleveland’s West Side was the site of a vaccination clinic earlier this month. Vaccination numbers have lagged in recent weeks, meaning fewer people are going to clinics like these.
Carmella Tidmore started working with a state of Ohio COVID-19 response team to fill appointment spots at the Wolstein Center’s mass vaccination site in late March. But trying to convince people to get the shot in Cleveland’s Buckeye, Mt. Pleasant and Central neighborhoods, where vaccine hesitancy is running high, was not an easy sell.
“I had people literally tear the fliers up in my face,” she recalled of the flat-out refusal of people she handed information to at McDonald’s and Dollar General.
Cleveland Metroparks unveils Red Line Greenway bike and pedestrian trail
The trail stretches from the Michael Zone Recreation Center Park at West 53rd Street to Irishtown Bend on the Cuyahoga River. Author: Dave Dino DeNatale Updated: 1:28 PM EDT May 12, 2021
CLEVELAND
Editor s Note: The above video is from a previously published story
On Wednesday, Cleveland Metroparks officially unveiled Red Line Greenway, an all-purpose trail that stretches nearly two miles and links the area around W. 65th Street to Irishtown Bend and the West Bank of the Flats.
Wednesday s opening was celebrated by a ribbon cutting at the trail access point on Columbus Road where Cleveland Metroparks was joined by project partners and supporters including LAND studio, The Trust for Public Land, Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority (RTA), Northeast Ohio Areawide Coordinating Agency (NOACA), and Cleveland Rotary Club.
Apartments, offices and retail planned for Voss site in Ohio City
Apartments, offices and retail planned for Voss site in Ohio City
Michelle Jarboe
The former Voss Industries complex, on West 25th Street in Cleveland s Ohio City neighborhood, is slated for renovations as apartments, offices and retail.
A former manufacturing complex in Cleveland s Ohio City neighborhood, only steps from the West Side Market, is being reimagined as apartments, offices and retail space.
That revival plan for the vacant Voss Industries buildings along West 25th Street is the first phase of a much larger potential project dreamed up by homegrown developer MRN Ltd. In late March, an MRN affiliate paid $7.5 million for the 4.2-acre Voss property, which includes parking lots that could become construction sites.
CLEVELAND, Ohio Success has never been guaranteed for the city-led Opportunity Corridor project, a public-private effort to redevelop scores or hundreds of acres around a new, 3.6-mile boulevard that will traverse the economically devastated “Forgotten Triangle” to link Interstate-490 to University Circle. The rap on the $306 million boulevard, funded primarily through bonds backed by Ohio .