LocutusOfBoard

Those names suckass. No offense, but few people care about local farmers who may or may not have settled the area, especially the tourists that Cleveland hopes to attract.

How can any shopping center be the heart and soul of anything (or place)? Because it has a Cheesecake Factory. Also it has pedestrian traffic not seen since the downtowns of yore. When future archeologists sift through the ruins of Ohio, they will note that Easton was the peak of our civilization.

Easton is the heart and soul of Ohio!

That's a really weird setup. Those coming from the North will have to Exit on Fashion Mall Parkway, but to get back, they have to enter from Polaris Parkway.

God damn, stupid Phoenix.

I don't see the word "waste" anywhere in your post. Are you turning soft on us? :-D If they are going to spend money on such a boondoggle, it might as well maximize value. :D I just don't see people from Dublin driving over to Worthington, and then taking a train downtown, because they all have cars and Columbus traffic on 315 and western I-270 and 670 is not problematic (I know because I take this commute every day). Also, OSU is so sprawled out I don't know how much value there is in a light rail from there to downtown. However, the airport gets visitors from out of town who don't have a car, so a lilght rail might makes sense, as they would be more inclined to use such a thing.

I think an East-West rail from the airport to downtown could possibly make sense.

Looks like an extension of I-280.

Akron-Canton airport is booming, although that may be due to Cleveland's airport being so mediocre for a metro of its size. Still Dayton gets about twice as many passengers as Toledo's airport, so things could be worse.

Those people already are paying taxes for schools. Nice distortion of the issue. This is exactly why it didn't pass, because those who wanted it to pass probably used the same old, simple-minded "IF YOU DON'T VOTE FOR IT, YOU'RE AGAINST THE CHILDREN YOU EVIL PEOPLE!" type arguments that even the most clueless Democrat nowadays is smart enough to not fall for. When people already are paying a lot of taxes for schools, can you imagine how insulting it is for them, when people like you start accusing them of being selfish for not supporting even more unjustified increases? The real question here is how much money do you have in your pocket? How much money do you have in your bank account? Before you accuse other people of being greedy by not supporting your favorite cause, you should go and donate all of your money to that same cause. Otherwise you are nothing but a hypocrite.

You have made true, exactly what I said. You think people are stupid, especially people who might espouse some conservative principles, and you believe that the only opinion on this issue that should count is your own. What proof do you have that spending more money on education produces proportionatly better results? As smart as you seem to think you are, you obviously have no idea of the concept of diminishing marginal returns. Also, where do you think money comes from? From your post, you make it seem as if we should be spending an infinite amount of money per student. You make it seem as if we should just take all of the economic output of society, (i.e. tax everyone 100% of their own income) and spend all that money on education, because the school teachers think that you can never have enough spending on education. Reality check: Cleveland is a poor city. Cleveland is losing population. Cleveland is an aging city with fewer and fewer students each year. Cleveland is an overtaxed city that hardworking people continue to escape in droves, because the tax burden is unbearable. To jack up the taxes on people so that tens or hundreds of thousands of more Clevelanders leave the city in the next ten years, and spend all that money on education which will produce marginal or no benefits is of no good to the city. And that's why people in Cleveland voted against it. They voted against know-it-all liberals like you trying to pull the wool over their eyes.

I think ODOT is doing a pretty good job overall developing parrellel road networks throughout the state, instead of just adding lanes to a few major highways which is the strategy of choice in the sunbelt. This way there's more connectivity, and fewer comically wide 14 lane roads.

In a city with a declining population like Cleveland, what possible justification could there to be to jack up spending on education? I love the attitude these liberals have. They're so convinced they're right, they'll take any means necessary to force their agenda. And if people don't go along with it, well then obviously they were just "confused". This sort of shenanigans ain't no different in Toledo.

I'm not sure if there's much need for this. The Toledo-Columbus traffic does not go through this portion of U.S. 23. Also, right nearby is I-75 in Findlay.

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