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Good old Pete "price Hill" Witte. Interesting... http://blackcincinnati.blogspot.com/2004/10/price-hill-overrun-with-those-people.html http://frontier.cincinnati.com/blogs/gov/uploaded_images/witte-786727.jpg http://frontier.cincinnati.com/blogs/gov/uploaded_images/powrcouncil-774279.jpg

pardon me monsieur... lavomatic :-P

Lavamatic opens today at 11:30.

IMO, Cranley doesnt care about anything but his City Lights development.

You should email the designer and tell him to build it like that. :-D

If some of you have never seen this before, this is the city stairway report. It gives staus of stairways and current conditions. http://www.cincinnati-oh.gov/transeng/downloads/transeng_pdf14150.pdf

Yup, it is the same one. Here is Cheryls chart. http://www.scribd.com/full/2171503?access_key=key-1luccp0l5jgwe3rtvqp8

Build it and they will come.

Great turnout and positive vibe! More poor local reporting. Mayor Says Critics Can Be Brought To Streetcars' Side POSTED: 7:28 am EST February 25, 2008 wlwt.com CINCINNATI -- Cincinnati Mayor Mark Mallory said proposed streetcar routes would help the city's economic development and hopes a committee report calms council members' fears. Mallory said Monday's finance committee report should win over skeptics of the plan, which could have streetcars linking downtown and nearby neighborhoods by late 2010. A second route could follow and be funded with federal grants. A majority of council members have expressed doubts about the cars, which are powered by overhead electrical wires. The proposed cars are shorter than traditional trains, weigh less and have stops every four or five blocks. City Council members support a resolution that would put the plan on hold while they look at the project's finances.

Those steps used to go up to houses that are no longer there. The steps were built into the wall and the wall is needed to hold the hillside up (many landslides in that area). The roadway was not as busy in the time that those steps were built. Probably built in 1938 as part of the New Deal Program when Columbia Parkway was constructed.

I actually enjoy talking to ignorant suburbarbarianites. It is so much fun to see their faces when I say how much better it is living the OTR life than where I grew up in Montgomery in the suburbs. :lol: Let's lay some tracks already!

Contact these guys, they might be able to point you in the right direction. http://www.artworkscincinnati.org/publicart/

The one thing that bugs me about the brewery district is the hookers on mcmicken at Elm and Race. I saw about 8 of them the other night just in a 2 block stretch.

Phase 2 would be a plus, but I could really care less. The streetcar is needed in the Basin for it's residents and for economic stimulation in an area that in some places is depressed but has so much potential.

I would be more concerned with CITYLINK. Streetcar would be a plus for the area for sure. I love the buildings in the brewery district.

I saw one that wasn't listed. My first stairway memory were the ones by my Grandmas house in the 70's, it went from Harrison Ave to Knox st in Fairmount. I was told that there used to be a set of stairs near the end of Walker st down to Sycamore. It was a used by the residents of Walker and josephine/Bigelow to walk to Findlay Market. I heard that it was torn down in the 1940's or earlier. Also The Klotter st steps were closed in the early 90's. If your interested in doing something similar with the alleys of OTR, Prospect Hill, let me know. So much to see in this great old city!!

That sure is grand!! Makes me want to visit Cleveland soon! :wink:

Interesting.. I have an old Caroline Williams book that refers to the area of the Vine street steps(the stairway that takes you up to peete and rice steps to mulberry) as the area known as little bethlehem. The book came out in the early 1930's. Glencoe is just a short walk northeast of there.

Hey Joe! I remember you were telling me about this at Miltons. Well done! I will forward this on to some of my urban hiking buddies. Leslie Ghiz and Cecil Thomas should see their great contribution to our city, Ghiz even bragged about closing down the collins ave steps on her election website. Cheers

Yes, the north side of mulberry is mt auburn, the south side is OTR. CBD is downtown. I lived at 4th and plum downtown for 2 years and enjoyed it. I heard they were under new ownership or something though. The infamous all nighter rooftop pool parties were pretty rad. 8-)

That is not Downtown. A short walk to downtown though.

The only reason I have to up to uptown is for a bite to eat, Thai express and krishnas. I would not ride the streetcar up there for that. I know, I give you a hard time sometimes...sorry :-) oh by the way.. OTR and Mt Auburn are not downtown.

I do bet that the streetcar gets built before anybody buys one of those vacant overpriced lots on mulberry where the cool buildings were that the neighborhood had torn down. :wink:

I wonder why she wants to skip OTR?? We need to get Nate livingston to research this matter.

Race/mcmicken to liberty and up liberty hill :-D I can't believe, Im shocked really that I now have more respect for ummmmleslie Ghiz than Roxanne Q. This is worse than what Cranley pulled a couple of weeks agao.