Cleveland is apparently accomplishing what Pittsburgh has failed to address, a rapid tranist line between downtown and the Universities. The project, known as the Silver.... Cleveland is apparently accomplishing what Pittsburgh has failed to address, a rapid tranist line between downtown and the Universities. The project, known as the Silver Line, is part of the Euclid Corridor project. Despite seemingly continuous setbacks, Cleveland seems to make strides. The Silver Line is part of $4.3 million investment in the corridor that should go a long way to making the "mistake on the lake" a modern, livable city.

I remain to be sold on the high-tech bus system, however. Not only does light rail keep pollution out of the city, it can connect to the other rail systems already in place. While the Euclid corridor system is to some degree fixed in place, it is still a bus system that can continue to encourage suburban development, and that suburban development has seen the Cleveland Metropolitan area double in size even as the population has been cut in half and continues to decline.

I don't want that to overshadow this huge accomplishment, however. Moving people efficiently between downtown and the Universities will also help Cleveland begin to grow again from the center out, even if the suburbs and region remain in decline.

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Plain Dealer article on Economic Development in the Euclid Corridor

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