The worst thing going for Ohio is the political landscape. An effort to restart passenger rail with a line from Cleveland to Akron was killed in the early 2000s, thanks to a small township of like 2000 people that would have had to hear a passenger train in addition to the freight rail traffic currently using the rail line already in place in their back yard. Regional planning is impossible with such a selfish and fractured political foundation, not to mention the gerrymandering done by statehouse republicans that maintains this state of dysfunction and pushes the state red.