Sanduskian. Native Clevelander. City planner turned communications guy. Car-free. Interests:🚲🚅🚃🚌⚾️,city flags & local fast food chains. Opinions are my own.
For being the “Greatest City in the World,” you’d think New York would have a better system for trash collection than just having huge piles of garbage all over the sidewalks.
Your bi-annual reminder that calls for making Daylight Saving Time permanent are stupid and what we really should do is just abolish DST and make it Standard Time year round.
The Cleveland Landmarks Commission approved a proposal to build a new, six-unit apartment building on historic Hessler Road. Several longtime residents of the street opposed the project, saying that it was too large and dense for the historic district.
It’s time for conservatives to stop burying their head in the sand when it comes to climate change. Climate change is real. So, what are reasonable reforms to begin making a positive difference?
Looking fwd to discussing this and more with
@UBC
students on Tuesday!
Our Republican Secretary of State
@FrankLaRose
always touts how great Ohio’s elections are run, so I’m curious why his party feels the need to add these additional requirements for voting.
A thing I appreciate about Cleveland after visiting recently Detroit is that we didn’t destroy a bunch of our business districts to widen our main arteries like Detroit did with Michigan, Gratiot, etc. You don’t really see any intimate commercial districts like this in Detroit.
This is a place I’ve been wanting to visit ever since learning about it in 4th grade Ohio history class.
The first permanent settlement in the Northwest Territories & the oldest city in Ohio.
Marietta.
It took me about 25 minutes to walk from the CLE Amtrak station to Tower City to get to the Rapid. Not ideal, especially with luggage.
I’d love a better pedestrian connection to Mall C. Or, for the WFL line to actually run. Or, ideally, relocating the Amtrak station back to TC.
Continuing my weekend of visiting Ohio cities that I’ve not been to before, our next stop is the hometown of Urban Meyer and, more importantly,
@ConnieSchultz
.
Ashtabula!
I’m open to my mind being changed, but I think the best option for a new name for the
@Indians
is the Cleveland Commodores.
1) It forms an alliteration with Cleveland
2) Has the same amount of syllables as Indians
3) Ties in well with minor league teams Captains & Clippers
I don’t enjoy shopping on
#BlackFriday
, but I do enjoy taking pictures of empty parking spaces at shopping centers on Black Friday. Here are Eastgate & Golden Gate in Mayfield Hts. If the lots aren’t full today, they’ll never be full. We have too much parking.
#BlackFridayParking
Why do northern Ohioans so often tend to go south for vacation in the summer (notably Myrtle Beach, Hilton Head, OBX, Florida)? Why not northern Michigan, the UP, Minnesota? It’s so much more pleasant going north this time of year than to the south.
Imagine being able to take a daytime train not only from Sandusky to downtown Cleveland, Toledo, and Detroit, but also directly to Cleveland Hopkins & Detroit Metro airports.
Toledo’s Amtrak station is pretty unique. It opened in 1950, making it one of the last major rail stations to be built in the US, so its Modernist style is one that you typically don’t see with train stations.
Where else in Ohio can you hop on a ferry downtown with just your bicycle and go to a foreign country?
My next small town adventure takes me out of Ohio and across Lake Erie to Sandusky’s sister city— Leamington, Ontario 🇨🇦
#LakeErieLove
A few weeks ago you could see the remains of the WR Stafford ship at Shoreline Park because the water was so clear. Today you can see the ship because the winds have blown most of the water out of the Sandusky Bay.
Remember when one of
@JohnKasich
’s first acts as governor was to cancel a federally-funded passenger rail project linking Ohio’s largest cities and then sent back the $400 million to Washington.
Former Ohio Gov. John Kasich planning a somewhat-rare public appearance at an upcoming climate change town hall with John Kerry and Arnold Schwarzenegger, who is in town for the Arnold Sports Fest.
I’ve never been on the stretch of Amtrak north of Seattle before today, and this is where all the best views are. Much of the route between Seattle & Vancouver runs right along the Puget Sound. Be sure to sit on the west facing side if you ever are on this route.
The news about
@nikkidelamotte
is heartbreaking. I knew her only through Twitter and her bylines, but knew she was a great person and I loved her exploration of the people & places in our community. My condolences to her colleagues, friends, & family. Cleveland lost a good one.
When your city manager makes
@JeffSpeckAICP
’s Walkable City Rules required reading for city hall staff 🙌
Making a city more walkable is a true team effort. I look forward to Sandusky becoming more & more pedestrian-friendly in the near future.
Let there be light! 💡The exterior lighting on the newly renovated Feick Building came online tonight.
Long vacant, the Feick will soon bring 40+ new apartment units to the core of Downtown Sandusky.
Tonight’s the first time I’ve actually watched a Trump speech in a long time, and dear lord, how the hell is this guy leading in the polls right now? Just incoherent rambling and constant lying.
Look how much wasted & unproductive space highways create right on the edge of Cleveland’s central business district— the place where land is most valuable and should be the most dense.
Excited to have
@SecretaryPete
in downtown Sandusky to celebrate the recent RAISE Grant award that Sandusky & Erie County got for US 6 and the Sandusky Bay Pathway from
@USDOT
So, yeah, the new
@clevemetroparks
Red Line Greenway is pretty great. Doesn’t get much better than urban trails connecting neighborhoods, rapid transit lines, and scenic views of bridges and skylines.
The Mecca Motel, an old motel on Cleveland Rd. near Cedar Point, was recently purchased by a local couple & and they are completely renovating & modernizing it; renaming it to The Explorer. Their new sign went up today and I’m a big fan.
When I was a little kid, I used to love watching the swing and lift bridges in the Flats open and close. Now that I’m almost 30...I still love watching them.
I wasn’t totally confident in my plan to watch the Eclipse in Sandusky and then try to make it to Cleveland in time for the
@CleGuardians
home opener. But it worked! Go Guards
Tremont- one of Cleveland's best neighborhoods, with its beautiful centerpiece, Lincoln Park, shown on the right.
On the left, I-90, which was sliced through the neighborhood in the late 1950s, cutting it off from the rest of the city.
The origins of DC’s height restrictions have nothing to do with the Capitol or the Washington Monument, but rather this building here— the Cairo. It was built in 1894 and stands 164 feet tall, dwarfing the surrounding buildings. Uproar about this led to the DC Height Act of 1899
50 years ago today, Dave Thomas changed the world. The very first
@Wendys
opened on Broad Street in downtown Columbus on November 15, 1969. Happy 50th,
@Wendys
!