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I get the aesthetic argument for getting rid of the parking, but IMO it's much more aesthetically pleasing to see a street lined solid with parked cars. It lets you know the area is popular and crowded. On Final Friday, for instance, all the streets within blocks of Main are lined solid with cars, and it "looks" better than an average weeknight when the streets are empty. A lively looking park looks much better than an empty one, no matter how attractive the park may be.

^ Comcast owns NBC/Universal, and thus part of Hulu, so they've got there hands in both cookie jars - streaming and cable; Comcast has also been pushing hard to cap broadband data amounts and/or charge per amount used monthly. They'll either make money by overcharging for streaming, or bringing cable subscribers back from Hulu due to the raising costs. Also, ESPN is owned by /ABC, who also has a stake in Hulu, should they decide to do sports streaming of some sort. And on that note, Fox Entertainment is also a part owner of Hulu. Time Warner and CBS seem to be the ones on the outside. That's my 5 minute Wikipedia analysis of the corporate entanglement.

If they do it, they better not allow sticker parking on Main or Vine or Walnut, only the side streets. The metered parking on-street during the day is for businesses and at night for restaurants and visitors. It makes sense to keep Main and Walnut as metered parking, but Walnut (like Elm) is basically all residential. Currently, there are a few meters here and there, but they are inoperable. The only business on Walnut north of 12th Street is a bar called Biff's that is only open on the occasional Friday night.

Right, I park on the street in OTR, I parked on the street in Clifton before that, and even parked on the street when I lived in New York City. It'd take a lot to convince me to pay to park in a garage somewhere. And that's what one calls a sense of entitlement. Those parking spaces on the street aren't free to build and maintain after all. Since they're not charged directly to those who use them (most of the time), it's yet another subsidy to automobile use. Everyone pays for it, but only some benefit, and those benefits are entirely internalized, it doesn't really benefit society as a whole. The maintenance for a 19 foot by 8 foot slice of pavement is easily covered via property taxes. It's not an automobile subsidy, it's a benefit of paying property tax on a residential property. There are meters along commercial properties for the purpose of charging the user, who likely isn't paying for maintenance via property tax. In a residential setting, the user is paying via property tax. Plus, the space is already there and the built environment of the entire neighborhood is based upon it. There are 4 lanes on most of the main streets explicitly for that purpose, and it's been the case for some 170 years. Also, "benefits society as a whole?" The discussion is over street parking. Tone the rhetoric down a notch.

Right, I park on the street in OTR, I parked on the street in Clifton before that, and even parked on the street when I lived in New York City. It'd take a lot to convince me to pay to park in a garage somewhere.

^ I stream Netflix on a 52" 1080p LCD TV and it looks fine. The selection is limited, but it is full of independent and foreign movies, which is what I prefer to watch over the big budget Hollywood films, personally. The only thing that is going to get me to switch back to cable is my need to watch the Reds win 100 games en route to the world series this year. The quality of the sports streaming sites just isn't high enough for me to watch baseball on. That said, I wish there were better options available for channel packages. I really hate having 400 channels, but the basic set of 60 doesn't include the ones I do want, like AMC, IFC and the multiple other ESPN's. I'd gladly pay ~$30 a month for 20 or 25 channels if I could pick the exact ones I wanted. Instead I'm stuck paying $70 for 20 channels I want and 380 I don't.

I recommend some due-diligence on the Oasis Line. Everyone I know who has taken a look at it has concluded it is a bad project of epic proportions -- amazingly expensive on both the capital and operating side with minimal service and hardly any ridership. I'm pretty sure that it if gets built, it will be the last rail project constructed here for a long time. Well there goes my dream of taking the streetcar from my house to the RTC, transferring to the Oasis and arriving at my girlfriend’s home in Columbia Tusculum. I guess I’ll get used to the traffic on Columbia Parkway.

It basically ran over the guys giving the press release. I find it a little bit funny that they set up shop for a big press release in the middle of a bus depot.

I believe the FBI was formerly in the John Weld Peck Federal Building along with most of the local federal offices. The building is a block east of the Federal Courthouse on 5th Street.

If your TV is downstairs, and the computer is upstairs, are you running back and forth to change the program ever hour/half hour? Must be a really nice workout... :D Ha, no, I have a wireless mouse and keyboard in a drawer in my coffee table, and a tiny little receiver hidden on a ledge overlooking the first floor. That limits my workout to changing discs when I'm watching DVD's or Blu-Rays. Eventually, I'll get too lazy for that and build some sort of robotic arm.

I gave up cable awhile ago. I've had a 25 foot HDMI cable for years that I got on sale for like $20, and I use it to mirror my desktop workstation monitor to the TV I have downstairs. I stream Netflix and Hulu, and use it as a DVD and Blu-Ray player as well. I live right in downtown Cincy, within site of all the broadcast towers, so my antenna gets perfect 1080 of all the local channels. The only things I ever watch "live" are sporting events, so it works out perfect for me.

^ According to voting records, Dan Handley is in fact an actual person this time. It's very easy to check and see if these are real people. If they are, and they're writing letters about politics, they should be a registered voter. Anyone who has ever voted is listed here, by county: http://www2.sos.state.oh.us/pls/voter/f?p=111:1:170612358172022 Download the .txt file and open it in Excel as delimited text with commas as separators. They're pretty fun to browse.

This is the streetcar barn that is coming down: http://www.google.com/maps?ll=39.126357,-84.499809&spn=0.003071,0.004538&hnear=Cincinnati,+Ohio+45202&t=h&z=17&psrc=6&layer=c&cbll=39.125888,-84.501909&panoid=Xf9q5tAIOAmfY_wnWhnaPQ&cbp=12,305,,0,-4.37 There was a site plan for the new building posted on this forum somewhere, but I don't remember what thread it was in.

I'm still pulling for converting the existing historic structure into a park, and building a new viaduct adjacent to it: http://zfein.blogspot.com/2010/02/viaduct.html

I used to do the same thing when I had a giant 4 wheel drive truck. On what may have been the same night as your roommates 5 hour drive, I had to drive from my work in Fields Ertel back to University Heights. After 3 hours waiting to get from 275 to Montgomery Road in Kenwood, I got off the highway and flew home via backroads. Now that I have a tiny rear wheel drive car, I just spin in circles on the highway like everyone else.

^ When is this going to happen? I drive north on that chunk of Broadway almost every day. Hopefully the small stretch of Eggleston is going to become 2-way before they decommission Broadway.

Can’t tell if that’s sarcasm, but basically that’s their predicament; the people they want working for them don’t want to work in an ugly space. They’ll probably end up building a very unique new building because the type of renovated old warehouse type open office they are after doesn’t exist downtown anywhere, and surely doesn’t exist in the suburbs. The only places it does exist aren’t desirable neighborhoods, ie Camp Washington. The space they have now is pretty amazing, and that look is part of their marketing and brand. I really doubt they’d move to a suburban office park because of how closely the look of their space is tied to their brand.

With the way the state's constitutional amendment is worded, they may very well have a case there.

45 beers? I remember them telling me a few months ago they'd have a bunch of beers there, but I didn't think it'd be that many. I'm pretty sure I'll find myself in there once a week or so.

I believe the only guideline is that they aren't allowed to be visible from the street. It doesn't matter what the cladding is if you can only see it when you're on the roof (or upper floors in this case).

If this lawsuit is given any validity at all, then open the floodgates. If it's illegal for the city to run a streetcar over sewer lines, then why is it legal to build roads over them? Roads, as much as a streetcar, commit “an impermissible interference upon the rights of the county commissioners, for the rights attendant to their ownership of the sewer lines to operate, access, maintain, repair and repair those sewer lines to keep them operational,” do they not? The only additional interference the streetcar would cause is that MSD would have to do maintenance at night, when the streetcar isn't running. I don't know about MSD, but I know Duke Energy does most of their maintenance work downtown at night, already, because it just makes sense to do that in a congested urban area.

It’s beautiful in how it represents its era. Some architects of the time believed the best interior conditions for offices like this were completely isolated from the noise, dirt, and pollution of the outside world. The terrace plaza is a direct result of that concept. Even so, it manages to keep a street presence with the 2 floor (originally) storefront, and the sky lobby hotel is interesting as well.

Here are the average ticket prices for individual games, updated weekly: http://seatgeek.com/football-nfl-ticket-prices/ Overall, the average Bengal ticket is $100.49 and the average Brown ticket is $68.73. It makes a difference. I wouldn't mind taking my girlfriend out to a game if I was spending under $100 on the entire day. But when it's more like $150+, that is pushing it. That's why I went to UC games instead.

I get that they are cost prohibitive. I just don't know why. On one hand, so many factors should make it much cheaper these days. Imagine what it used to take to deliver all of the bricks, sand, cement, lumber to the site, and then lift it all multiple stories, for three-course brick walls! I'm told that plumbers used to be the big bad-asses of of the tradesmen, cause they were handling heavy iron all day long. Yet these were working class homes and tenements, mostly, and they got it done -- without omitting the details. I realize this is theoretical. But is it that we are just not used to doing it any more, and are therefor inefficient? Or is it something different, like the fact that we live in a lot more square footage per person than they did back then, and in order to get that space we have to be satisfied with the cheapest possible way to build a box with R20 walls? I dunno - this all makes me depressed about our ability to actually revitalize a significant fraction of the current OTR housing stock, and then take care of it. I mean, if each cornice is going to cost $20-30K, then we might as well just tear down all of the current housing stock that needs new cornices, and focus on the rest. Today money is spent on HVAC and plumbing that would have gone towards architectural detailing 100 years ago. Another factor is that when OTR was built labor was cheap and materials were expensive. The opposite is true today. A skilled mason, for instance, is very expensive to have on site, which is why we use things like "thin brick" instead of actual bricks, and cast stone in place of limestone.

What’s hard to understand? Even at buy-one get-one free prices I won’t give a penny to Mike Brown. I’ve been a Bengals fan my entire life and I was perfectly content watching them win via online streaming. In fact, I was giddy at streaming the games in a rebellion against the NFL for their regulated blackmail, but that’s another discussion. I won’t buy a single ticket until Mike Brown hires a general manager to replace himself. He’s fine as an owner, but he shouldn’t be running the team as intimately as he does. Picture it this way, if any other team had a general manager produce 2 winning seasons in 20 years, he’d have been fired 15 years ago. Mike Brown just kept at it. To put it into perspective, if the Ravens moved back to Cleveland, how excited would you be to buy a ticket? Anyway, this article puts it into words better than I could: Bengals' ticket problem isn't shortage of fans, it's the owner