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So you did nothing, but "vent" here? I mean, if in the moment, and you are worried about safety, wouldn't it have been in the riders best interest to whip out your cellie and call the police? Just putting it out there. Well, it's only been a couple hours and I was on my way in to work... so you are correct. I've essentially done nothing so far. However I have dealt with Cleveland police before, and unless I'm in the process of being stabbed I'm not anxious to deal with them again. But that's for another thread. Then honestly, based on what you yourself have written here, you've done nothing and wont do anything. How is that going to help the situation and improve safety for all? I'm not singling you out, but you did bring this up. I posted it in the Great Bicycle Thread on a forum that many avid bikers read. Beyond that... I am quite busy. Terribly sorry. I don't get paid enough to fly around in a cape saving people.

So you did nothing, but "vent" here? I mean, if in the moment, and you are worried about safety, wouldn't it have been in the riders best interest to whip out your cellie and call the police? Just putting it out there. Well, it's only been a couple hours and I was on my way in to work... so you are correct. I've essentially done nothing so far. However I have dealt with Cleveland police before, and unless I'm in the process of being stabbed I'm not anxious to deal with them again. But that's for another thread.

Not that I'm aware of... although it's a reasonable fear to have for any building in this city.

I was behind him the whole time, so no. Hipsterish with a tan backpack.

I'm not talking about bikers making it hard for drivers. I'm talking about bikers violating the law dozens of times in a 30 second span, putting themselves in grave danger. I don't want anyone to get hurt. The people in the cars and buses won't be the ones getting hurt. My concern isn't for them. You would lose your license if you pulled even one of the dozens of suicide moves this guy pulled this morning-- in a car. That's why you don't see it being done a whole lot-- by people in a car. Doing it on a bike doesn't make the act of ignoring traffic laws any better. But I see it almost every day. There is a gap in respect for (and enforcement of) traffic laws between SOME bicyclists and the average driver. In no way am I trying to paint all bikers with the same brush. It's probably only a small minority who do this. But I see it almost every day. I'm not proposing new restrictions on bikers. I'm gently suggesting that bike shops maybe hand out flyers, or cities put up signs, reminding bikers that when we share the road we share the responsibility of keeping it orderly.

I would prefer that other law school graduates stayed away for a little while... market... not... good

^ I enthusiastically agree. I think this is one of the very first issues Cleveland must address before things can improve. The poor decisions you listed off were so shockingly incompetent that several people should have been forced to resign in disgrace, never to hold a public position again. We must start taking this stuff seriously.

That's not why colleges do that, in my opinion. I think they're scamming money. Colleges scam money in every possible way, they're some of society's worst offenders in that category. And the fact that this practice is widely shunned in the entertainment industry is very very telling.

forget I said anything

I often think about that too. I love how the spiderweb pattern of the streets is so condensed around there. I bet it would look phenomenal and unique if it were filled out with Moe's-type buildings.

That should buy at least two, maybe three more trees. Yay trees!

R&R is right, and she even posted an outside source confirming her take on the industry. How hard would it be for these guys to just drop the $10 fee? How much of their business plan is premised on revenue from that fee? If the answer is "a lot" they're clearly scammers. If not... drop the fee.

As I rode the bus across the Detroit-Superior bridge this morning, we all got to witness another bicyclist put unfathomable effort into causing a tragedy. He was weaving all over the road, ignoring the bike lanes, riding too far out from the shoulder, darting in front of the bus so that it had to brake sharply going downhill... the whole nine yards. He then zipped through every traffic light like they didn't exist and continued to weave erratically until he was out of sight. I implore all regular bikers to pass the word around that everyone needs to respect laws, lanes, and traffic. Absolutely no one wants to run anyone over. Life is not a video game. If you want to get where you're going that freaking fast, cars exist for a reason.

So, what they're telling me is sales and customer service are popular entry level jobs in every single city? That's amazing. Seriously, why did they include that in the list if it's true across the board? I guess I'm just being picky.

I'm with you on that... I think the lack of writer protection is a lot more questionable than the actual fee, but WTF with the fee? What does $10 buy you? An audience with a couple dudes? That's messed up. It's presumptuous, to say the least, charging people for talking to you when you don't even have to say anything in return. It's just an icky relationship, so I guess in a way it is unethical.

never mind

That formula is total bunk. Invalid and unjustifiable. I'm not saying they don't use it, I'm sure they do, I'm saying it's erroneous and inflationary. They need to stop using it right away. X is right, the more accurate formula is the one based on actual sales, not cost plus some magical automatic inflation factor. That's kind of insane when you think about it. Why should there be housing inflation--or anything but a steep housing drop-- in a place where employment is crashing? Though Ohio's population has continued to grow the growth rate has been declining for years, so demand is declining too... therefore there should have been little new construction coupled with declining existing home values in Ohio, proportionate with job losses, over these past 30-40 years. But the opposite happened, to our detriment, and I think this magical pro-seller (and pro-sales) inflation forumla was part of it. There's no way it should have been used, even in Ohio's hottest suburbs, ever. It's that far off of reality. I used to do residential appraisals. One of the cardinal rules is that you rarely get your money back out of any improvements. You add ten grand of bells & whistles, we might throw you $1000 in extra value. Those things just aren't very important to most buyers in most markets. There's a good chance they have different taste than you. The only time you'd get close to dollar-for-dollar is when the house needed the improvement to reach average for the neighborhood. Neighborhood is everything. Point is-- inner city and Appalacian home (and other) values in Ohio should have fallen steeply, to ridiculous lows, as the income vanished from these towns. People willing to live there, businesses willing to locate there, they all should have faced dramatically reduced costs for doing so. I mean costs so low that investment would siphon in from the coasts until the country reached equilibrium again. We wouldn't have the problems we have under a truly free market. Insiders have been jacking up costs in their own favor, and declining states like Ohio are footing most of it.

Very interesting. I like it too.

Great article. I wish more people understood the relationship between wages and housing budgets. It doesn't seem like rocket science... I suspsect the problem is denial moreso than ignorance.

I agree with your appraisal overall. I prefer traditional designs to contemporary ones, even if the traditional designs now smack of Home Depot. Of what's been installed, I prefer the Clinic-area "vertical tubes" and I think the whole street would look better if those had been (could still be?) used throughout the project and not just by the Clinic. Also, is there any news on the fare machines? In addition to the fare machines, some stops (I'm thinking of the downtown terminus) have a second screeny-thingy. What is that for? I ask because the screen on the one downtown just shows an Internet Explorer error message. At least that was the case last week.

The higher ups comment on different websites than we do. They live in a different world altogether.

"If you can breathe through your nose in the spring in Cleveland, isn't that amazing?" said Siemionow. Is she talking about allergies?

I lost my wallet a few years ago. About a month later I got a postcard from the Cleveland main post office saying my wallet had shown up "loose in the mails." Sure enough they had it, minus the cash and money cards, but still containing all my IDs. So... anything could happen. That certainly does suck though.

FYI this morning on the red line it sounded like the robot voice was telling people they can connect with the 326 at West Boulevard. Is there still a 326?

I was born in Newark and went to Granville schools till I was 12. Then we moved away, and since then I've lived in or near Columbus on a couple different occasions. Who knows... I may soon be going back.