TraderJake

That's cute... their project schedule is done in Primavera. I remember learning about that program. This will be pretty neat once vertical construction starts.

Oh my, the trust fund is bankrupt and Kentucky shot down tolls. You can't do anything without funding. Speed up the design all you want, but without the greenbacks this project will go nowhere.

I know how you feel. I'm stuck in Annapolis and I certainly wish I was on Fifth Street Cincinnati, USA.

I saw some photos of Northside and Price Hill on WOXY. I can't believe the storms took down a building by the old Alchemize Building and also knocked out most of the BP station at Glenway and Guerley. It's amazing in the most devastating of ways, it truly is.

Wow, this is woefully humorous. This is a project that probably could get the ax at this point. Too bad it was so close to being finished there is really no reason not to finish it.

It's ODOT... it'll take them all the time in the world. It's a bit more difficult when the first thing you have to do is remove and replace the traffic signal. It's... challenging. Also, this improvement greatly increases the safety of the intersection... especially for pedestrians. Free rights are not safe for pedestrians. No one in Ohio realizes that at a crosswalk pedestrians have the right of way.

Thanks for the photos, I moved to Annapolis, and I really was wondering how the painfully slow Rybolt project was progressing. Great photos of a depressing commercial strip!

Would increase visibility, that's for sure, but with the west side it's not really a destination location for any one visiting a retail establishment. It's isolation limits the retail draw to those people that live in the West Side. As most of us probably know, the west side is not that accessible.

What? Roads aren't free? WHEN DID THIS HAPPEN? :lol:

You'd think that, wouldn't you? Maryland has lots of roundabouts.... yet one of the double roundabouts has a lot of accidents because of confusion several years after the fact. The truth is that double lane roundabouts aren't as clear cut as some people think they are, and it will take a lot of education to drive through something so deceptively simple.

Oh Rybolt, how you were supposed to be finished a year ago. Funny how utility relocation can muck things up. Lots of ideas and alternatives were floated... some businesses like some alternatives more than others. Ultimately, 4 or so years of study led to the alternative we have today. I can't wait until Wesselman and Rybolt makes it from design to construction. That will be fun too, you know.

No kidding, I analyzed the numbers game for Ridership numbers for a Demand Forecasting Class, and I came to a similar conclusion, at least about projected ridership.

Westfield properties tend to have H&M. The Westfield Annapolis also has an H&M (but is also significantly trendier than Kenwood Towne Centre). H&M is nice, and it'd be great for Cincinnati to have it. Between IKEA and H&M, it's just like Sweden, but not.

This is nice and all, but it doesn't do anything if the jobs aren't there. I wanted to stay in Cincinnati / Ohio, but here I am, living in Annapolis. There is much more to keeping grads in Ohio than a tax credit.

I don't want to knock Baltimore, but yeah... Baltimore is good at doing transportation poorly. Very poorly. Here's hoping they can do a streetcar correctly.

I'm very weary of the roundabout interchange. You don't introduce roundabouts using double roundabouts. They can and generally are extremely confusing for new drivers. There are plenty of double roundabouts in Maryland, but even I, a traffic engineer, would be bewildered by driving through a high volume double roundabout. Grade separating Central Parkway would save the city maintenance building, which I am sort of surprised the city is okay with destroying it. In reality, the roundabout interchange is "cleanest", but I still can't fathom what will happen when a bunch of people unfamiliar with roundabouts go into a heavily used double roundabout.

Single lane roundabouts are very nice. When you start getting into double lane roundabouts, it can get a bit daunting / confusing, but all in all, roundabouts are an excellent alternative to a traffic signal and can be a very, very effective traffic calming measure. Also, they tend to be aesthetically pleasing.

Is the construction science lab at OCAS? Engineering construction is... memorable. When I lived in an apartment sophomore year, affectionately called the Rohs St Crack House, the furnace failed, and they replaced it. In doing so, they routed the gas line through the main distribution duct work. Needless to say, Duke Energy red tagged that.

If a speed limit is perceived to be reasonable, people are not likely to speed it. That's why the 85th percentile speed tends to be used for speed limits, as it doesn't penalize those drivers who navigate at a reasonable speed.

I echo the sentiment that ODOT will never have the money to do this, but safety is very important, and the ODOT of today is a post-NEPA department with a development process that takes 14 steps to complete, including a lot of input from the public. 70/71 is unbelievably unsafe, and saying that preservation is more important than saving lives is a slippery slope. ODOT is not the department of the 1960s that would level an entire neighborhood to put a major highway through some Southwest Ohio city.

Haha, because the national speed limit worked so well. Unfortunately, most interstates have a design speed of 65-75MPH, and people will drive the speed that they find to be clear an reasonable. People don't follow speed limits now... do you really think they'll follow it under a national speed limit? History shows that they likely won't.

South Point is the Civic Centre Drive Extension. Civic Centre is to be extended to Allen / Windisch. This project is to be located directly south of Streets of West Chester. The GE site is the old Queen City Sports Site. Its boundaries are roughly as follows: I-75 on the West UCB on the South Cincinnati-Dayon Rd on the East West Chester Cemetery on the North

I hope Duke gets hit with footing the $30M+ price tag for improving the infrastructure / interchange. Just say yes to Diverging Diamond!

Or it will allow them to hire two more engineers! Nah, this is 2008. They'll fire two senior engineers and hire 6 entry level engineers.

Well, ODOT is required to award the contract to the lowest bidder, most of the time. To ensure that the people working on the project are qualified and not someone off the streets, ODOT uses a prequalification process. No prequal process is perfect.