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https://www.gcbl.org/blog/2019/12/we-need-to-stop-treating-light-rail-like-its-a-precious-heirloom

Cleveland and Shaker building inspectors should really hold the Square's owner's feet to the fire -- keeping the Square in good condition would help to encourage investment in the neighborhood.

The first patent did cover wing-warping, yes. https://www.libraries.wright.edu/special/wrightbrothers/patents

Most people would be financially better off with a Honda Civic than a big SUV or pickup -- and yet SUVs and pickups are huge sellers. Car purchases have ceased to be rational decisions -- the only question for most people seems to be "what's the most expensive car I can afford?" E85 might be a smart transition from current fuel, but that doesn't mean it's got a future in the US. Rational decision-making in this country is rare. Is it profitable might be more important -- can Exxon make more money on E85? Can GM?

I think maybe a new OC is in order -- keep Freddie for consistency, but get someone else in there to call the plays.

Yes, and I assume it would be easier to control emissions from a fixed power plant rather than hundreds of thousands of vehicles.

Where? To compete with Phoenix in Cedar-Lee or Starbucks at Mayfield-Lee?

Let's say that the technical details can be worked out by 2040. How much is it going to cost to do that research? Then, how much is it going to cost to build and operate such a system? And in comparison, how much would it cost to implement the Midwest Plan for high speed rail? Without knowing the answers, I would put my money on rail over tubes. I have not heard a compelling argument for putting government money into this unproven concept BEFORE implementing the already-available technology of high speed rail.

I'm not sure I understand your point, but I'm trying. Keep in mind that the "lack of access" on E. 75th that you're complaining about will improve by the time this happens. The rapid station is already nearby and may be renovated in the near future. The Opportunity Corridor will be complete, improving highway access and will probably bring improved bus service as well. So it seems premature to say that transit will be bad there; and there are reasons to be optimistic that it could be better than the current location. You seem to be saying that there is efficiency in aggregating workers, such that it is good to consolidate labs and training and vehicle maintenance (support services) in one location, but that "HQ" needs to be downtown so that those same workers can be closer to other city departments (Or are you saying that all police department workers need to be close to other city department workers?) Would there be an advantage to having all city workers in one building? (I can think of several disadvantages.) I can see why some police functions (like a training facility) need more space than is readily available downtown, but I don't understand what the "HQ functions" are that benefit from being in physical proximity to other city departments. As you said, ordinary citizens generally don't need to go to HQ. Most of my business is by phone, email, and video conference -- and government is usually trailing business so that is likely in the future. Can you give some further examples where different police functions benefit from being really close to other city departments? How spread out are the other city departments? How far away from City Hall are they? How far away from City Hall would it be reasonable to locate the police HQ?

Quite appropriate; at the moment it's nothing but a money vacuum.

To the extent any zoning changes are needed to facilitate future development, there is some value in doing some planning and making those changes in advance so that the city gets the kind of redevelopment that they want. But overall I think all of this talk of redevelopment is premature and is going to give the residents unrealistic expectations. A lot of people want to see the area revitalized, so the city is "doing something," but the property owner has shown no signs of wanting to redevelop even in the face of high vacancies, so there's not going to be much visible change on the ground until the property owner changes.

Who shrank The Keith? ?

Close -- Hofbrau Haus?

Multiple flatbeds delivering a bunch of steel beams to the back of these buildings today.

Looks like they might want to move some of the cell-tower repeaters from the Keith to the Lumen when it's done!

Oh no -- Terdolph advocating for the welfare state! The end times are upon us! LOL

Is this in part a result of part of the neighborhood lying in Shaker and part in Cleveland? Maybe each thinks that the responsibility is with the other, or that one hasn't been a good partner in the past and so they are not working well together? I don't know. You can look at Severance in Cleveland Heights for similar problems and a city unable to make significant improvements for some time. Hopefully Shaker Square and the adjoining city governments get it together sooner rather than later.

Last I heard they were still negotiating the terms with the city. Then I suspect financing. THEN preliminary plans -- we're probably looking at six months (at least) before there is any further news. (City is calling this project Cedar-Lee-Meadowbrook) https://www.clevelandheights.com/1154/Cedar-Lee-Meadowbrook

I stopped in at Fifth Third Bank on Cedar near Nighttown the other day and learned that they are closing that branch at the end of January and putting the property up for sale. Should be prime real estate with Top of the Hill on the horizon. Will be interesting to see what develops.

I don't know about that. If you add a lane so that the lane from I-71 to I-480 can be a dedicated lane with an exit lane emerging to its right, you have to add a highway lane that you now have to maintain (increased roadway maintenance cost). That also means the I-480 driver has to cross two lanes to get to the exit, but the merging I-71-to-I-480 driver can just stay in their lane. Moreover, that same cross-two-lanes to get-to-the-exit-lane exists if you restripe so that I-480 loses a lane before I-71 and then the merging I-71-to-I-480 driver can just stay in their lane -- but without the added lane maintenance cost. And you could do it over a weekend. Adding lanes to the highway is expensive and shouldn't be done lightly.

Seems like more of a lane-striping problem than a sufficient-number-of-lanes problem.

Lots of new lane-miles in that funding. We already underfund roadway maintenance. How much did we increase our maintenance costs with all these new lane-miles? State Republicans are failing at fiscal responsibility again.

https://clevelandheights.com/DocumentCenter/View/4712/PC-Plans-19-05 (PDF file)

Definitely agree -- no company that needs to bring in a lot of trucks is going to want to be in the Heights, but I think there is room for a small amount of light industrial, and certainly there is a need for more office space, and there probably could be some demand for medical research-type commercial buildings. Opening of the Opportunity Corridor could help with access.

This blog and the study it is reporting on provides a unique way to provide a streetcar that doesn't have to rely on timed lights and speeds transit without incurring the larger costs of digging a subway -- what if we did this for the Healthline, with plans to convert it to a streetcar in say 10-20 years. https://www.treehugger.com/public-transportation/low-clearance-rapid-transit-cheaper-subways-faster-trolleys.html I think that would be awesome!