Cleveland Moves plan aims to make city’s streets safer

From cars and trucks to bikers and walkers, Cleveland’s roads are busy. Unfortunately, that also means Cleveland roads can become the site of accidents and crashes, leading the city to take action to improve roadway safety.

Cleveland Moves is the city’s five-year multimodal transportation plan aimed at making the streets safer. According to information on the plan posted to the city’s website, Cleveland Moves will make it “safer, more convenient, and more comfortable to get around Cleveland.”

The plan will look into bicycle and pedestrian safety issues, review existing policies, develop the Midway Bikeway Network, recommend a connected bike network based on updates to the 2007 Bikeway Master Plan and transit network and ultimately create a five-year implementation plan, according to the webpage.

Sarah Davis, senior active transportation planner for the City of Cleveland, said everyone deserves to feel safe getting to where they’re going.

“We have a number of pieces that will go into Cleveland Moves. It has five objectives, one of which is a rapid three year bikeway buildout for all ages and abilities that complements our transit network. So that's really thinking not just about ‘is there a striped bike lane,’ but, ‘what is the appropriate bike facility to have on that street?’” Davis said. “We also will be thinking about pedestrian and bike safety improvements and just general corridor safety.”

Davis identified some particularly dangerous corridors as Dennison, West 117th Street and St. Clair east of downtown, among other areas.

[LearnToWin]

Well for bikers, good luck riding in the Cleveland winters and snowstorms

[bolognatony]

It still doesn't address the core issues. People are too self absorbed and in a hurry all the time. They don't care and especially do not respect the road, other cars or anything else, let alone people walking around.