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Found her! She's doing everything in her power to make the city regressive and inhospitable. http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2017/10/city_council_zoning_ordinance.html#incart_river_home_pop

1) Radarsign sells "traffic calming" equipment for profit... of course they think it's a good idea. 2) That being said, their website also makes my points. Probably because their lawyers told them to. 3) Nobody is arguing against 20 mph school zones, nor in favor of zoning out while transporting children.

I disagree. Speed limits are almost irrelevant to how fast people will drive on a road. http://www.sehinc.com/news/truth-about-speed-limits-explained-engineer I suggest a low-cost trial -- lower the speed limit and increase citations for six weeks (and what will that cost -- I'd bet that traffic tickets will not cover the extra police presence). And then put potted plants at spaced intervals on opposing sides of the street. Park cars on the street. Put some bike racks in parking spaces on the street. Narrow that street down, create more distractions not fewer, and after another six weeks evaluate which approach had more success in slowing the cars. Create more distractions? That sounds counterproductive when the goal is reducing accidents. Attention paid to swerving around fixed obstacles is attention not paid to nearby objects in motion, many of which are alive. I agree that the speed limit is not especially relevant. Collisions are the safety problem. My suggestion would include citations for illegal walking and biking activities that lead to increased collisions-- in addition to speed enforcement on cars. Throw in that stuff and we've got an interesting experiment. What if the drivers going 35 are the only people obeying basic safety rules, while bikes ignore traffic signals and pedestrians refuse to use sidewalks or crosswalks?

Amazing-- teach what's on the test and people can pass it. Previously they didn't. It's mind boggling. This was an issue for most law schools, not just Case. Countless times I would raise my hand after a lecture and ask what the actual Ohio law was, and the prof didn't know or care. And this was at a state school where the overwhelming majority of grads would be practicing in Ohio. Another change Case made was making more of their exams closed book, since that's how the bar exam works. Well... yeah, good idea, why weren't you doing that all along?

There are 35 mph residential streets throughout the city and throughout all cities. Franklin is 35 in Lakewood and doesn't have these issues, so I don't believe changing the posted speed would solve much. I do think enforcement would help, enforcement that includes jaywalking and bicycles as well as speeding cars. Installing a slalom course is not recommended. That gives drivers additional distractions to manage, taking their focus away from bikes and pedestrians.

Is this in part because of the conversion of the West Shoreway? Yes. Traffic didn't vanish when the shoreway's capacity was reduced (e.g. one lane westbound yesterday). Just like squeezing a hose, it sprays everywhere.

This. If we want people to back the plan, it has to be competitive with Spain and China. High speed is an essential factor.

Kasich may have been suggesting that Jobs Ohio does not technically act on behalf of the state. This notion is critical to privatizing the organization's meetings and records, which seems to be the main reason for its existence.

We aren't a power hitting team but tried to play like one in this series. Not enough walks, too much swinging for the fences. And if Kluber was hurting, why not start Carrasco twice?

Because the city treats parking lots as prime development.

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Doesn't need the help. It's still in better shape than any of the hotspots. And half the neighborhood is in Lakewood so neither side feels responsible to promote it alone.

Public benefits can reduce the cost of employing people, which helps businesses as much as it helps anyone. And in most western countries the state owns a portion of every business. Their dividing line between the public and private sectors is blurrier than ours, which makes cooperation a lot easier.

I was downtown for work on Friday and wow did it stink. There have always been isolated areas with sewer problems but never this widespread. It was getting reactions from tourists. Is this caused by some project that's going to end?

Doesn't matter how much we develop downtown, it will never be safe when half the city is wreckage.

Lakewood would gain influence beyond its current borders and would become part of a more competitive metro. Many Lakewood residents joke about giving Cleveland everything east of Bunts Rd. Ha ha, stick em with the poors and keep the rest! But what if instead Lakewood's wealthiest areas wanted to break off and form the Village of Lakewood Shores? Do sharing and togetherness become more fashionable in that scenario? If I call the cops in Lakewood they are at my house in approximately five minutes. Until Cleveland can get its act together with police response time I'd never seriously support any kind of merger. I don't want a merger either, same reasons as everyone else. And yet I might vote for it. A lot of the opposition on the Cleveland side is worried about the amount of control they'd lose to the absorbed suburbs. Well, yeah. That's part of the deal. And voting rates in the city's distressed areas are very low. So, it's not like the suburbs would be ceding to an occupation force.

Lakewood would gain influence beyond its current borders and would become part of a more competitive metro. Many Lakewood residents joke about giving Cleveland everything east of Bunts Rd. Ha ha, stick em with the poors and keep the rest! But what if instead Lakewood's wealthiest areas wanted to break off and form the Village of Lakewood Shores? Do sharing and togetherness become more fashionable in that scenario?

I might quibble with some of the playcalling but I'm with Hue about the front office. We have enormous cap space; there was no reason to skimp on Haden or Pryor. Neither player offered ideal money value, but both were legit NFL starters and they solidified extremely weak areas of the roster. Can't build anything if we keep knocking out the foundation. Our weakness at receiver and DB puts needless pressure on Kizer. If we were going to field a bargain basement roster, on purpose, we would have been better off starting Hogan for at least half the year.

It has to start with Cleveland absorbing a few of the inner-ring though. I don't think Cuyahoga County would benefit from two cities with 150,000+. Imagine a Parma, Parma Heights, Seven Hills, Brooklyn consolidation - as they have already begun to share some dispatch services. That would be a city of approximately 135,000. They also share a municipal court system, along with North Royalton and Brooklyn Heights. This arrangement is common throughout the area. Rocky River handles Westlake, Fairview Park and North Olmsted. Avon and Sheffield go to Avon Lake. Due to the overwhelming need, city mergers have already been happening in all but name.

The overall condition of the city could be why expansion isn't happening.

That's what I thought, but this response had muddied the waters. Um, it does. In fact it runs all the way to midnight. It's called the Blue Line. Now that we're clear, I'd like to repeat the suggestion of keeping both lines running to Shaker Square but cutting the hours of Green Line service east of it. This approach could minimize the impact of cutbacks on the transit dependent population, a population which becomes sparse as the Green Line heads into the wealthy section of Shaker Heights. It's still not ideal and it may not be enough of a cut to solve the budget problem but it might be worth looking at.

Do they mean just the eastern portion of it? Because you said all Green Line service from downtown to Shaker Square was called the Blue Line.

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I believe Louisville merged with its county like Indy.

I'm sorry, the communication line between Earth and your planet is a little garbled today. WTF are you talking about? Right now I'm talking about your attitude, mister. And now I'm done. The development plan for this area is too heavy on non-public uses. Due to their exclusionary nature, offices do not lead to much street activity even when they're open. More often than not these buildings are entirely human-free. Years ago I remember people wondering why the Third Federal HQ didn't help liven up Broadway, when the answer is obvious. All it does for the pedestrian public is give them a giant thing to walk past before anything of interest appears. Same problem here, multiplied every single time they get it wrong. One medical office and one grocer are nice but wow there's a lot of parking too, and we're talking about several miles of a street where transit speed was sacrificed for density of stops. Ten years ago! The whole thing is poorly executed. Just ask the pedestrians you see in those pictures.