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I'm stuck in the traffic too. However, things get better once you get on the Shoreway. I think the problem right now is that the Lake Road entrance ramp is closed, so all the cars on Lake and West Blvd have to funnel onto Clifton, and it is not clearing by the time the light changes. That causes the Clifton traffic to back up. Now that they have changed the project and are not installing intersections and traffic lights on the Shoreway, once construction is over the impact of the project is to probably only going to add about 5 minutes to my commute (due to 35 mph speed). Won't know for sure until it is over.

When doesn't that happen?

If you are old enough, you remember a cigarette advertising campaign that said "What do you want? Good grammar or good taste?"

I worked there in the early 80's and it was the Union Commerce Building then. Union Commerce Bank was later bought by Huntington Bank.

Well, there were at least two guys there wearing suits and ties, because I was the other one. Never realized that Blossom Music Center was the Gateway Arch tilted to the side.

We took the Rapid to the Feast on Saturday, and the new station was jammed when we got off around 4:00 pm. The platform waiting for a westbound train was jammed, and there was a long line of people at the machine buying tickets.

The Presidential Apartments in Rocky River hold similar events for residents - coffee and doughnuts, pizza lunches, outings on their own shuttle bus. The clientele there is mostly, but not all, seniors.

With a building this size, would they be able to do it bit by bit? Fill up the top 5 floors or so with apartments, floors 2-5 with some Class B office space, and then start working on the middle?

The latest from Michelle http://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2015/06/cleveland_lakefront_constructi.html#incart_m-rpt-1 Sorry - didn't see this upthread

Steven Litt got a hard-hat tour http://www.cleveland.com/architecture/index.ssf/2015/06/first_look_new_downtown_hilton.html

There have been times where I had to take the Metro from my home in DC to Union Station to catch the Marc to get to the BWI rail station then take the shuttle to the BWI terminal, go through security, board the plane, fly to Hopkins, wait for my bag, then take the Rapid back downtown....and all in all it took longer than the six hours it would have taken to drive. I don't know if it is still the case, but I know a few years ago the MARC didn't run on Sunday. I ended up having to take a bus from BWI to the Greenbelt station. I think that's when I started doing more driving.

On the CLE-DC fly versus drive, it also depends on the airport. If for budget reasons you have to fly in to BWI, then I prefer to drive the whole way, especially if I have to rent a car at BWI.

Possibly it depends on what is being reflected?

On the other hand, hasn't a top floor bar been added since the first designs came out?

Also, I think that the people who ran the restaurant were just renting the space, and somebody else owned the building.

There were a couple of glass panels up on the Lakeside Ave side as I drove home tonight.

From the Shoreway east or west I don't this has any impact, nor from out on the lake or the shot everyone uses down by the Center Street swing bridge. About the only places this would have an overwhelming impact on the skyline would be coming up 77 or from Progressive Field.

The earliest that anybody will be dining out at nuCLEus will probably be 2017, so they have a head start

Yes, but if it happened in the days before social media, it would have been known only to a handful of people that the guy personally saw that day.

It's also probably closer to downtown that Toronto's Ikea, and certainly Detroit's Ikea.

Ernie Anderson did the ABC voice-overs - that was him saying "Next on the Love Boat...."

I believe Shondor met his demise on Holy Saturday, not St. Patrick's Day, and parts of him rained down on people going to the Easter Vigil mass at St. Malachi's http://www.clevelandmagazine.com/ME2/dirmod.asp?sid=E73ABD6180B44874871A91F6BA5C249C

http://www.cleveland.com/travel/index.ssf/2014/12/top-rated_jetblue_to_start_fly.html#incart_river Cleveland, Ohio – JetBlue Airways, consistently rated by customers as the top U.S. airline, is coming to Cleveland – with twice-a-day service to Boston starting in April, and the possibility for additional destinations later on.

Considering the horrendous shape of the road on the Cleveland side before construction, this morning's trip downtown was the smoothest in well over a year. Would have been even better if the red light at Clifton and Baltic hadn't been out, causing a big backup.

Cross-posting this on a few threads Cleveland Connects is hosting a panel discussion on transportation issues on Monday, Nov 24. It's free but you need to register http://www.ideastream.org/clevelandconnects/getting-around In this installment of Cleveland Connects, we examine Northeast Ohio’s transportation infrastructure and how it should be shaped to create more livable communities and to promote more sustainable economic growth. Cars will always be part of the mix, and the planned Opportunity Corridor should improve cross-town traffic patterns, but young people today also want to ride their bikes to work or rely more on public transportation. What is the right mix of transportation options? Should the Rapid be expanded? Is it simply a matter of building more bike lanes? Coming up with the right answers will be critical to the region’s ability to grow and prosper and to capitalize on national attention during the 2016 Republican National Convention.