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Some pictures from last year's labor day. Various things around the harbor and the decorated guitars. Cleveland's skyline from the Voinovich Park Back shot of Rockhall Great Lakes Science Center Partial Skyline from Science Center and the GIANT fan - GO GO Lake Erie Wind Farm! Cleveland Firefighter Memorial with Science Center Backdrop Browns Stadium from Voinovich Park Another Skyline Shot NorthCoast Harbor Shot Good Time III Sry I can't resist skyline shots William G Mather Museum Sail Boat on Lake Erie Last Skyline before Guitars Binary guitar? Butterfly Guitar Cleveland Themed Guitar Cavs Guitar (GO CAVS!!!) NorthCoast Guitar Terminal Tower Guitar ThunderBirds during airshow More Thunder Birds I plan on spending a lot more time downtown this year and hopefully taking better pictures of some of the more obscure things. I have finally convinced my friends, who rarely visit downtown, that Cleveland is amazing and we have a bunch of things planned out, so better pictures are to come from the adventures. :)

As far as transportation the Cleveland RTA is the best large transit system in North America, according to the American Public Transportation Association. http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2007/09/rta_wins_honor_as_best_big_tra.html

Is there anyway that the Cleveland Aquarium will one day be integrated into the Flats plans? I know there was some renewed interest recently of trying to bring this back to Cleveland. http://www.clevelandaquarium.org/ What do you guys think of having an Aquarium around the Flats? I personally already like the ideas they have and I would travel from time to time from Old Brooklyn, where I live, to the flats to catch a movie because I have always loved being near downtown, ever since going to Ignatius and walking down there nearly every day and exploring. I already drive to Valley View for movies all the time and this would be a great new destination to grab some good food then watch a movie. Also what do you think of having something similar to a Dave and Busters around that area?

This is my first post, so if my question/analysis is dumb please feel free to remove it or let me know. I also wanted to say that I have followed this forum for a long time and always look forward to the new information as well as from hearing from Mayday on here and on the skyscrapers forum. Here is my question and let me know what I'm misreading or if its a totally stupid idea... The visitors bureau said that Cuyahoga county had 14 million visitors in 06' and our county covers 458.49 square miles. That is 30,535 visitors per square mile. You will see why I broke it down in square miles in a bit. New York City had roughly 39.5 million visitors in 06' and have 468.9 square miles of land. That is 84,209 visitors per square mile. I know this sounds silly but NYC, the greatest city in the U.S. (at least most think so) gets 2.75 times more visitors then our region. My question is how many of the 14 million visitors to Cuyahoga County actually visit Cleveland, and I was wondering if someone had actual numbers for the city itself it would be great. For example, if we get half of the visitors to Cuyahoga county that puts us at 7 million people with 82.4 square miles in our city, which equates to 84,951 visitors per square mile. I'm sure that we probably don't get half the county visitors, because then we actually get more visitors per square mile of land then NYC, but even if we don't I think its possible for our city to attract that many people. The theory for my visitors per square mile is that the more land you have the more likely your going to have a higher total, so this breaks it down to relative terms. Just wanted to see what you guys thought and I apologize for writing on tourism under this thread but others have been mentioning tourists so I decided to chime in.