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Fair enough, but I often feel this way in my car. Can't I just go, if I'm in front? No. Part of the purpose of traffic lights is to make things predictable. If the light is red, nobody is going through that intersection-- period-- until cross traffic has been stopped. Cross traffic can materialize out of thin air as long as their light is green. Maybe they were parked, maybe they emerge from a hidden alley. Regardless, they need to be able to trust that a green light means the intersection will be clear. To others, a biker blowing a red light is a random occurrance injected into a situation that calls for minimal randomness. That's why it's illegal. We cannot have traffic laws that are optional for some but not for others. Please do not ever run red lights in any vehicle.

Are you saying that blowing red lights is an advantage of cycling? That's actually a crime. Even if there's a bike lane, red lights still count the same for everyone. I'm not sure there's any other situation in which a car would have to pass the same bike multiple times. Running red lights is a dangerous and illegal act.

Great stuff! In particular, stop lights are stop lights for everyone. By forcing cars to pass them over and over again, often swerving into oncoming traffic to do so, bikers can make the roads considerably less safe for everyone. In my experience the vast majority of city bikers blow stop lights. Please obey our most basic traffic laws, regardless of your choice of vehicle.

Thanks Jerry!

Cleburger never said "disaster." He seemed to be going out of his way to suggest a different type of program, and to avoid this very issue. This is a classic straw man scenario. It's not unreasonable to think there might be federal funds available when weather damage is bad enough to impair a large transit system for this long. If I had to guess I'd say there probably isn't, but that's what insurance is for. Either way, what we need is a plan.

Grass is not a development.

These are good points, but none of them preclude scheduling a job. And this is a very important job. Presumably, someone who is paid to do so has already made efforts to understand the scope of the damage and estimate the time it will take to repair. In a normal world-- not a perfect one--that task would have been accomplished by Labor Day 2011, from which point there would have been measurables on the table. If no measurables exist going into Year 2 of a project, then significant corrective action is advised.

Sheldon Brown was healthy and played one down to keep his streak going. Buster Skrine then took his spot for the rest of the game. Not clear why.

So is the timeline indefinite? Surely there's a plan of some sort. The number of affected components is finite, while the process of changing them out is hardly without precedent. I think it's fair to wonder what's going on after a calendar year has passed.

That was over a year ago. What is the status of the repair operation?

We've been hearing about this lightning strike for some time now. Enough time to replace every piece of hardware involved. Do we have an estimate regarding the end of all lightning-related repairs? Seems like an awfully long time for one lightning bolt to impair a public service of RTA's size and importance.

Attendance and work ethic are "skills" now? Somewhere off in the distance, I can hear Hank Hill's exasperated sigh.

Judging someone for their background includes favorable backgrounds, and falls under what I'd call bigotry. Choosing to live a vacation lifestyle on one's parents' money is... not the world's most respectable plan, but still far from hate-worthy. However, doing this while looking down upon those less worldly, and lampooning their primitive tastes, can be irritating to many people. But I still wouldn't say it leads to hate.

Help me understand. My concept of bigotry doesn't extend to evaluating free choices. To me bigotry is hating someone for what they are, what they come from, what cannot be changed about them. Judging people for what they choose to do with themselves is often considered the polar opposite of bigotry. What positive aspects of hipsters are people missing? What misconceptions about them are people adhering to?

Why live, if we'll die anyway? I believe it's possible to awaken someone's intellectual curiosity, even if they've been fed propaganda in a trailer for 10 years. I have friends who do this for a living. While family has a whole lot to do with it, we're all better off when other options are made available to people. Not everyone agrees with their parents forever.

Hate is a strong word. Not sure it really applies here. Hipsterism seems to me like a set of free choices, and I think most of the backlash comes from the same place as the song "Common People" by Pulp. It's about the choice to cherry pick aspects of a poverty lifestyle, with ironic intent, while experiencing none of what actually drives poor people. This, plus smugness, generates backlash. As Cdawg mentioned above, it's likely that many here in Ohio never have met a real hipster, in the purest sense. But we can still be familiar with the idiom.

Reports from camp are that Josh Gordon is already tired, but I hope to be wrong about the petering-out thing. And I do expect considerable improvement this year because we have all these guys.

Scav I think you have a strong point there. Offering modern office space is a good idea for Cleveland, the only question is where do we put it since it does seem to disrupt the urban flow wherever it lands. If it were up to me, I'd choose this part of the lakefront over midtown Euclid Avenue, because I think there's less potential urbanity here to disrupt. I don't see the airport moving and I don't see anything truly desirable ever getting built so close to it.

A team starting this many rookies might peter out toward the end. 16 games vs 10 they're used to. We better get those wins early.

I like them too! Vigorous is good.

Isn't there still one by CSU? I remember it always being closed when I was on campus, but it looked as though it was still in business.

I like the elf, and the dog, but not on a helmet. No logo on the helmet please.

I think this is great news, but you have a point, and I do hope these businesses are able to land on their feet nearby. Pimp-hat retail is still retail and we can't afford to lose any.

That sucks, he was rather important. Now we get to see how good those 2 rookies are.

The "vibrancy" concept has always bothered me, as it really has no meaning. Vibration has zero to do with urban development, and equating successful urbanity to an unrelated concept makes it harder to figure out what specific decisions might or might not lead to the sought-after result. It also glosses over big-picture relationships in favor of a myopic and balkanized approach, suggesting that developments have an actual physical radius through which "vibrations" transmit and gradually fade, like ripples in a pond. It also suggests that putting people in an area, for whatever purpose, will ultimately lead to successful urbanity because the essence of "vibrancy" is people milling about-- regardless of context, regardless of why they're there or what they're likely to do, regardless of what costs may have been incurred by putting them there. For example, under the vibrancy theory, placing a large workplace in a neighborhood will necessarily improve its fortunes, because it causes more people to spend time in that area. All these people vibrate like little atoms, leading to Step 3: Profit. The problem with this approach is that the connection between placing workers there and "Step 3: Profit" has not been established... it's simply assumed because that's how vibrancy works. It's a gross oversimplification that precludes further analysis or understanding.