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I will text because if I'm on the street or somewhere I usually can't hear the other person over the background noise... especially the girlfriend, who's quite the low talker and has a super heavy accent on top of that. Or if I'm on the subway, or at work, etc. it's a bit rude to be having a conversation on the phone. What I won’t do is get the internet on my phone. I really don’t want to read my email any more than I have to.

Here's a highline-esque park I designed as a project for Cincinnati :) http://zfein.com/architecture/whv/index.html I somewhat agree, though. I liked it before when it was overgrown and forgotten about. Of course, I spend half my spare time sneaking into abandoned buildings to take photos.. so I might be a bit biased.

Ha, seems like those guys always have short man syndrome or some other issue they have to compensate for by pretending they have some actual enforceable power. Sounds like he should have been arrested for assault a few times…

I make websites, love transit, and love simple, informative, easy to read maps. I'll see if I can't through together some website/route guide examples in some spare time over the next couple weeks.

A signage and branding campaign would go a long way to help metro. It isn’t very easy to find stops, unless you know where they are. They also need a fare card, badly. Having exact change is annoying and time consuming when there’s a line of people trying to get on the bus. These things could be standardized with the streetcar. Buses could keep their numbers, and they could be color coded routes based on which neighborhoods they serve. The streetcar, and any future rail could get service letters. Painting a chunk of the sidewalk green, orange, etc. and painting a big “17” on it at each stop would go a long way toward improving the system.

My family has a farm near Winchester, Ohio, and some of the roads back to it look like they were solid pavement at one point, but have crumbled in most places. The rest of the roads are all the crushed limestone type gravel mentioned above. The street I grew up on in Loveland was only paved for about a hundred feet, then a mile (dead end) of gravel. They paved and widened it when they filled the farms that were on it with McMansions about 10 years ago. Seems like anything within a 50 mile radius of a metro area is paved now, though.

Through them, and their parents (if you can find them) in jail for a long time.

But it's not a business. Transit is a public service that was once run by private enterprise. So were U.S. roads during the Laissez Faire era. But their lack of availability in rural areas and the abuse of trusts (conglomerates) prompted a public takeover of each starting 100 years ago. And the government has done a pretty good job with roads, and an absolutely terrible job with transit.. I think the point is that if there were a bit more accountability associated with providing a vital service such as transit, most cities wouldn't be in the situation they are today. I liken it to how most cities regulate cab companies. There is extreme oversight and regulation, but they're still a business that provides a service but must also be run successfully.

^ Yep, Ill have a lot more respect for it if it's made out of limestone. If they can pull it off, aesthetically, to make it appear as if it's really floating atop the water, it could be quite beautiful. Not quite as iconic a location as Christ the Redeemer, but close.

^ Yes, and I've heard some say that Ohio's laws concerning water districts are distinctly anti-Cincinnati, although I haven't taken the time to read up on them and confirm.. I may do a little research soon though.

Glad that title will be gone. Anyone know who will take our place? And we could be the first.. depending on ifyou count Detroit's People Mover...

^ Except, of course, when the scrappers are dumb enough to try to steal live electrical wires. The problem takes care of itself pretty quickly, in that case. As for the price of scrap metal, I was saving up some old stuff.. my friends exhaust system, some other scrapped auto parts, an old water heater.. etc. in my garage, I had a few hundred pounds of stuff but was waiting until I had enough to fill the bed of my old truck. I came home from class one day, and it was all gone. My neighbor said some guy backed his truck up my driveway and loaded it all up. He figured I knew him…

http://www.ustrademarklawyer.com/RockandRoll.htm It seems there are a few different decisions that are all splitting hairs… Personally I spend almost all of my time doing either architecture or photography, and am a huge supporter of photographer’s rights. I say, if you can see it from a public right of way, you can depict it however you want to... whether it’s for art, information, or profit. Sadly, my opinion doesn’t serve as judicial precedent

^ I think you’re going to the wrong bars, on the wrong side of the city. You need a night out at a place like Burp Castle.

^ Pretty much what I equate people from Pittsburgh to ;) .. at least the ones that are Steelers fans.

Dense urban areas often have old CSO's that are in need of a very expensive replacement. Cincinnati has a big problem with that, and the price tag is somewhere around $2 billion. Because of the density and a slew of other things, I'm sure replacement is more costly than expansion in suburban areas. This probably offsets the disparity in cost, at least somewhat. Don't suburban developers often times pay more for installation anyways?

^ Interesting. If I remember correctly, 18" is still the code required width.. that's what we used when I used to work at a firm that designed churches. One person per every 18" of pew. I think with theaters, the bigger seats are more so just for luxury, though. People don't want to be crammed in to watch a movie they just paid $12 for.

Last I heard, the whole idea of it being a mixed-income neighborhood wasn't too successful. The market rate units aren't selling, even though it looks pretty and is a great location with amenities, it is still perceived as public housing by most people, and no one wants to pay market rate to live in public housing… The mixed use portion is a disaster. I don’t think any of the storefronts along Linn are occupied currently. Here's the thread on it, if you're interested: http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php/topic,1743.120.html

I find that Jean Nouvel building reflects the sun into my eyes whenever I least expect it.

^That's sort of ridiculous though, isn't it? Believing that an active conspiracy is more likely to occur than just plain lunacy? Clearly some people love the streetcar, and some people hate it. So you're assuming, based on no evidence whatsoever, that those who love it are willing to go above and beyond hard core advocacy and actually pretend to be the hardest-core haters in order to undermine the position of the true hard core haters, who are content with simple being agressive in their opinions. Sounds like you're trying to make the facts fit your theory. Occam's razor dude. I think you dove a bit too deep into it. There's a bunch of trolls running rampant in the Enquirer’s comment sections. If whoever they are actually hated the streetcar, I don’t think they’d be purposely making themselves look like a bunch of loonies. You’re right though, it could simply be that there are a few crazies out there... I just find the simpler explanation to be harder to believe in this case. Either way, I don’t really care, and I’d like to think most people only read newspaper comment sections for occasional laughs like I do. In that case, a troll here or there is marginally amusing.

MTS, you are what.. 0 for 2 now on living in cities where Lebron James plays, right? Tough break.

I’m still fully convinced that a lot of those duplicate accounts are pro-streetcar people trying to make anti-streetcar people look insane. That or someone who wants the Enquirer to get rid of comment sections altogether. Nobody is that insane, it has to be a double agent of some sort.

I don't see why we don't just make a Korean porno hot dog thread?

You can't buy it before 11 am or noon or something on Sundays. It works fine for me, because that's usually the earliest I'm waking up from my hangover and wanting more beer, anyways.

I’ve never stepped foot inside Cadillac Ranch, but that’s pretty much what I imagined it would be like.