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Someday. The Clinic proposed narrowing Euclid to just bus lanes by its campus. There were predictions of traffic chaos and even complaints about traffic on Euclid from the reduction in car lanes. But I haven't seen it. Euclid is a pain to drive and most people have learned to work around that and generally avoid driving on Euclid. I'd love to see Euclid become bus/bicycle/pedestrian only -- and then convert the Healthline to a streetcar. I doubt we'll see a subway in our lifetime. Too expensive.

Oh, I hope you're right!!! :clap:

It means the building was designed so that a tower could be built on top of the garage. Air rights means that they have the right to build higher than it currently is. Unfortunately, until there is a financial incentive to build the taller tower, it won't happen.

No context. Is that enough money to keep up with the potholes?

Rumor has it that Cleveland Cinemas might take over operations. Frankly, Severance needs to be redeveloped as a neighborhood. Mixed-use buildings lining the ring road businesses at street level and residential above. Coventry, Cedar-Lee, E4th -- these are great PLACES. Severance is not a place anyone looks forward to spending time in.

I don't understand. If the FRA says that Indiana has to act as a railroad and IN says "No, thanks," and the whole point was that Amtrak wouldn't/couldn't continue to maintain this route without state funding support, HOW can Amtrak now say that they can continue to operate on a month-to-month basis? The article seems to be woefully incomplete.

Some would say that that is a sign that the city should spend more. But isn't $250,000 plus all the perks enough? (Adding in all the other benefits and it's a lot more than $250,000.) In my view, most CEOs of publicly-traded companies are grossly overpaid.

Government builds better than it maintains not just because of the ribbon syndrome, but because there are easily measurable goals and objectives. I resent the dig at "Government" as if getting rid of government solves all problems. Anarchy won't fix the roads either. You can measure maintenance, the measurements just aren't any more exciting than the results of maintenance. Measurables might include how many cracks wider than one centimeter. How many potholes bigger than X per mile. Depth of corrosion on bolts. Percentage of area covered in paint/rust. We know from experience statistically how long an iron pipe will last when buried in Cleveland mud. It's not just government that fails to do sufficient maintenance. Most of Amtrak's lines are privately owned and poorly maintained (relative to the standards required for passenger rail, to which the private railroads are supposed to meet). Every manufacturer is looking for ways to reduce maintenance costs to the bare minimum. Replace that machine when we can no longer repair it, not a moment before (unless we can pay back the replacement cost within one year!) The problem with government isn't that government workers are worse than private contractors, it's that politicians' careers depend on getting reelected (rehired) and We The People like new bridges more than resurfaced roads. So we don't hold our politicians accountable for adequate maintenance spending or for making sure we can fund the maintenance before building more stuff that has to be maintained. We now have more stuff than we can afford to maintain. We The People, whether we realize it or not, have to choose what transportation assets to maintain and what to let fail. The people probably aren't being educated very well about this. As a result, We The People choose - failure of assets. Who knows where the next bridge will fall, but fall it will....

http://www.citylab.com/commute/2015/03/john-olivers-solution-to-americas-infrastructure-crisis/386549/?utm_source=SFFB

Was that one of the newer, "safer" oil cars?

E. 116 Station (just west of Shaker Square) redevelopment -- public meeting February 17, 2015 to present final station design (construction to begin sometime in 2016) http://www.riderta.com/majorprojects/e116

Time will tell. In the meantime, those three interchanges are aging and nothing has been built yet to support the maintenance cost. That seems like "dumb" construction. Shouldn't we only add to our infrastructure maintenance costs when there is a tax base to support it?

I still don't get the rationale for bypassing E55. The justification was something about stopping traffic too quickly -- but it looks like there is a stop just past E55 anyway. How does moving the stop essentially one block east justify the cost of digging a trench and a bridge and an on-ramp at E55? I'd like to see the neighborhood and the city and the county push back on this part of ODOT's plan. It seems like an expensive approach with little benefit. And quite a few downsides for pedestrians and the adjacent RTA station, as noted elsewhere on this forum.

That may be true right now, but I'm not convinced that that will be true in the long run. I think we will eventually find that flying between close city pairs will be unprofitable for the airlines (prohibitively expensive). As a result, having the Midwest Hub rail plan in place with connections to the airports might be more necessary and profitable. What if Cincinnati's middle-of-nowhere airport were connected by rail to Cincinnati (and Dayton), Lexington and Louisville? High speed rail from Cleveland to Akron, Youngstown, maybe even Pitt -- expands transit options and increases potential airport customers within an hour's travel. There's no money for any of that to happen any time soon, but I'm optimistic that we should be planning for that future.

It seems like they've been talking about the need to replace the bridge for a long long time, but nothing is happening. The majority of parties involved don't seem to think it's all that urgent. How long before trucks are banned from the bridge? What is the longest that they can keep patching and repairing the bridge before it has to be completely shut down? Five years? Ten?

Excellent news for anyone in Ohio waiting on Kentucky to step forward and rebuild the Brent Spence.

The US continues to fall behind international rail developments. Japan planning for 300mph maglev trains by 2027. http://gizmodo.com/japan-tests-its-new-500kmph-maglev-train-1638957502 and Japan, not someone in the US, has offered $5B toward bringing the maglev technology to the US http://money.cnn.com/2014/09/04/technology/maglev-washington-baltimore/

Will the construction of this road create the jobs and resulting tax receipt increases to fund its maintenance? If this road is not going to lead to increased investment along the corridor, and just make it easier for current workers to get to university circle and the Clinic, then we're just going to be shifting maintenance funds from another road, say Carnegie, to the OC. While I am happy to see some brownfield cleanup in connection with this project, and like others may personally benefit from more direct highway access, I don't think we have really thought out what the returns on our investment are going to be. That case needs to be made.

Hooray for Pittsburgh – Mayor advances cycling network, considers transportation needs of pedestrians and disabled, too. (Without diminishing the automobile as an alternative.) http://www.treehugger.com/bikes/pittsburghs-mayor-wants-copenhagenize-his-city-video.html

It looks like that parcel transferred to SCRIPPS MEDIA INC on 27-MAY-14. (Search PPN: 103-06-032 on the Fiscal Officer's site: http://fiscalofficer.cuyahogacounty.us/AuditorApps/real-property/REPI/transfer.asp And after further construction, it appears that Cleveland has a new parking lot.... hooray. :-(

Houston also has been cited as one of the largest American cities without a comprehensive zoning code. I don't know if that is still true, but it might have something to do with the pattern of development there.

Anyone know what is happening on the southeast corner of E30th and Chester? Old lube stop was leveled. Some sort of site preparations are ongoing.

I like that idea. I expect there are environmental issues with the Greyhound property. Why would CSU want to take that on?

You may be right. I don't remember. I think that would be unfortunate. There already is a park to the east of the tracks -- Ambler Park? We need more ridership generators around transit stations. There is a creek under that land draining from the Shaker Lakes and buried as it passes through Ambler Park, under the tracks and then under the west-bound MLK to Euclid before re-emerging and flowing into the MLK parkway. There were plans to "daylight" some of that creek, although the funds for that seem highly unlikely. At any rate, building structures above a creek would require careful engineering, meaning that the banks probably would not be so eager to finance the project. Yes, we need more activity around the stations. But that is going to be difficult in this area.

That's not always true -- if reality perfectly matched ideal capitalism in its simplest form, perhaps. But we're not all driving the cheapest cars, are we? If having my hardwood floors refinished was essentially free, I still wouldn't do it too often due to the hassle of moving everything out of the way and the temporary loss of living space. If heart transplants were free, I'm not signing up until I actually need one, thank you. Root canals too. Sprawl is not entirely a result of subsidies, but is a much bigger problem because of them.