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They are painful to even listen to. This is the first year in a long time that I can remember turning the radio off before the end of the game, which I find myself doing all too frequently now. I'd rather sit in silence than listen to the trainwreck that is the Reds bullpen.

^ For being a rather large city, I'm amazed at how well the good old boys network operates in Cincinnati. It's like something you'd see in a backwoods town of 20,000 people.

^ The only reason I have never been able to take the Cardinal is because it doesn't run every day. It would be very easy and convenient to take one day off and have a long weekend in Chicago if the train had daily service in each direction, even if it ran at the same times it does now. My brother lived in Charleston, WV for years and I always wanted to take the train there but it would have always required me to take at least 2 days off work. If they began to offer daily service I think it would become very popular because it would attract new riders that so far haven't been able to make the 3 trains/week schedule work. This is especially true for the Cincinnati to Chicago portion, as the TSA is currently trying their best to make a flight from Chicago to Cincinnati take just as long as the train.

^ Yeah, there are rooms on the south side as well, though not as many as the north because the elevator core is on the south wall.

The permit says it is an emergency demolition as the rear addition was in imminent danger of collapse.

That shows the 71NB offramp to Ridge north being eliminated, and traffic directed to the Ridge south offramp (where they can make a left onto Ridge north). The previous comment mentioned a realignment of the Ridge north offramp to dump onto Kennedy. Either way that would free up a lot of land on Ridge for development.

They used to have a buy one get one free promotion. They also have some sort of Groupon thing for a discount. The savings, from a business perspective, is that you only have to show up 15 minutes prior to departure. That saves you at least an hour, if not 90 minutes for each flight. I used to take it to Charlotte for meetings because the timing worked out perfectly to fly in, work a good 8 hour day, and then fly home. That saved the cost of a hotel, a dinner, and a day worth of rental car charges. For personal travel I've never used it because I'd rather waste a couple hours sitting in airports and spend my vacation money elsewhere. there's no extra fees for baggage or anything like that, you get decent food and booze, and

There's a big difference between a skywalk system and a single pedestrian bridge that connects a parking garage to the building it primarily serves. This is a very ugly pedestrian bridge, and I wish it'd be taken down, but it probably is warranted. The people I see using it are usually about 90 years old, on average, and they probably can't make it across all 38 lanes of Central Parkway in a single red light cycle.

A sanctuary of that size needs a substantial investment in AV equipment in order to function. What's the alternative? I agree that the St. George steeples have the potential to look a bit cheesy. More often than not the modern intervention into historical space does. 60-75% of the courses at UC attempt to distract college students from reading real books and are basically scams, so this is nothing new to the area.

^ There are a handful of bars near 3rd Street that seemingly make most of their money during Reds and/or Bengals games, and just need a handful of people in for lunch or a couple drinks per day during the off-season. I wouldn't be surprised if the In Between operates in the green as is and this was more of a real estate investment than a push for a new restaurant concept.

I'm just upset that the unlimited ride card for the first 15 days will be useless for 2 or 3 of those days. I always go to Oktoberfest early on Saturday or Sunday and would have almost certainly taken the streetcar there.

Yeah, in Taipei for instance, most of the busier/larger stations are in giant malls, and the malls are owned and operated by the transit system.

NYC has a farebox recovery ratio of 51.2% - there are a couple other systems in the US that come closer to breaking even (San Francisco, DC, Philly) but they still operate at a loss. There are only a handful of systems (mostly all in Asia) that turn a profit and if you've ever been on any it's quickly obvious why - they move an incredible number of people relatively short distances. Plus their infrastructure and labor costs are a lot cheaper compared to the US.

The site is zoned CC-P (Commercial Community - Pedestrian) so a bar is the exact type of establishment that is supposed to be built there. The opposition to the rooftop used a historic guideline that rooftop decks shouldn't be able to be seen from the street to achieve their agenda, which did not align with the reasoning that was used to block the deck. They didn't care about being able to see the deck from the street, they just didn't want a rooftop bar there. Part of what makes this choice a poor one in my opinion is that this building is not a significant part of the historic district. Let's be honest - it looks like the exact type of building that should have a rooftop deck or modern addition.

^ Steel is another easy money maker that very closely follows oil for a number of reasons. In January I was tempted to do something similar to what you just described, and throw a couple thousand at some Ohio companies: AK Steel and TimkenSteel. AK was $1.88 and is now $5.05. Timken was $3.99 and is now $13.00. I bought an engagement ring instead. I could have bought the ring and still had more money than I started with if I had taken the chance (though I probably wouldn't sell it yet - at least not all of it).

^ That slogan under your post count is quite a relevant one for that bit of information!

I wasn't on that ride and don't know anything other than what was just posted here, but if the area in question is that place where Mehring Way ends I could see what caused the confusion. I have been back there before - Google Maps shows the PUBLIC road continuing under the viaduct and over a bridge - I had to use CAGIS to figure out where the actual public road ends and private property starts, though the property boundary overlaps the public ROW. Even the Google Streetview car went onto the railroads property. It's definitely not clearly indicated as railroad property. I thought it was a pretty popular spot for railfanning - which is what this incident seems to have more to do with than biking.

I wonder how much the current trend toward holistic admissions affected this situation?

This reminds me of an exchange from one of my favorite X-Files episodes:

^^ What's funny about that rendering is that the a building that looks exactly like that (from that vantage point) could be built without removing the Dennison. If you mirrored and flipped the setback in the foreground on the back of the site, everything from the Dennison to the corner of 8th Street would be where that rather useless courtyard is.

I have noticed that a lot of people not from Cincinnati, particularly people who relocate here from either the South or the West Coast, have the exact opposite opinion of what is desirable than many natives. I watched a friend of a friend turn down several amazing deals on homes in Columbia Tusculum and Mt. Lookout, only to ultimately buy a new house in Morrow because they didn't want an old home. "New" was not only at the top of the list of requirements, it was virtually the only requirement. I don't understand the logic but those people are out there, and there are a lot of them.

Ron Joseph lives right next door to Cranley. I wonder which side of this argument Cranley's cohorts on the historic board will take? I wouldn't be surprised if they cooked something up together over the fence while doing yardwork - or rather while watching their help do the yard work.

In addition to the 1.1 acre lot in the quote above (which is on a dead end along the highway, far back from Court Street) the article says they are buying a 4.2 acre site that is currently an old Hostess bakery (that fronts Court Street). That's a lot of land for a two story 50,000 square foot building so I'm guessing there's going to be a lot of surface parking. The way the article mentions the bakery seems to imply that it would be demolished and replaced with parking, and the 1.1 acre plot in the back would contain the building (which would take up about half of it).

is that place good? I've been hankering for chinese recently and would love to find a place downtown The food was pretty average and a bit pricey for what it was, however it is BYOB (at least I think it is, we brought our own) and the atmosphere is extremely unique. I don't think the decor has changed since 1960, and the only employees are the husband and wife who own the place and have to be pushing 100. It's worth a visit just to look at the 50 year old framed news clippings, restaurant reviews, and photos of visitors.

^ Yum Yum Chinese is my favorite example of the "are you open" business in Cincinnati. I wasn't entirely sure it was open until I had a plate full of food in front of me: https://goo.gl/maps/U2F6mWHPiQr