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Actually if you had system-wide POP, Blue/Green riders could enter and leave any door... Farecards would be checked randomly by roving RTA cops... drivers would open all doors, which would speed boarding and reduce station dwell time as it does on the Red and Health Lines.

Btw, Philadelphia's SEPTA has implemented summertime all-night service on its Broad Street Subway and Market-Frankford el ... to great success, rider-wise. Hint-hint RTA... Isn't it about time our local transit agency get off the schnide and, at least, give riders late night rail service on, say, the weekends ... like RTA used to in the 1990s? That downtown has/is growing exponentially entertainment/living-wise is old news. Wouldn't be nice if RTA's rail service provided a serious alternative to driving? The 12-12:30p shutdown time for Cleveland's rail lines is earlier than most systems anyway, but these early quit times make the Rapid all but unusable on weekend evenings, especially summer weekends. Isn't it time RTA get with the times on this issue? How about it Jerry? JetDog? http://www.septa.org/service/all-night.html

Where, may I ask, do you live (generally of course)?

^I hope Crop makes it. It has a great reputation and great following, and as owner Steve Schimoler noted, Accent had neither. I'm not sure the newness of Accent was relevant, though, as I think Accent's lack of the aforementioned factors killed it... The real question is: can another high-end restaurant survive in an immediate area dominated by college kids and surrounded by college bars, an ice cream shop and typical college-y chain fast-foodies? Let's hope so.

^I agree with most of these, esp new stations at: Buckeye-Woodland, E. 30th (assuming that both E. 79th Red and E. 34 Red/Blue/Green will close due to ADA concerns)... I also agree that the W. 41 (or W. 44) and W. 85 infill stations should be built. I also like the idea of a new Lakeview Station in E. Cleveland to help revive some of the decay there.

I really hope Griffin doesn't get cute at this draft and out think himself unless he swing a truly killer deal... Unlike last year, this is a high quality draft and I don't want the Cavs to piss it away.... No pick is perfect and the best man, Embiid, is damaged goods. And Parker's defensive issues and lack of lateral speed, worry me. Just take Wiggins and, then, look for a quality, reasonably-priced vet; preferably a big man, because we obviously can't count on Andy's health anymore.

^Glad you're back on the WFL mrclifton, I thought you'd given it up... When I got on during evening rush at FEB, there were about 20 people there, which is a crowd compared to the way it used to be.

I recall the 9 express taking 20 or less, even stopping. The 9 schedule says it takes 13 minutes to go from 105th to 19th on Euclid. The BRT schedule does not break down by stop, just the ends. 40 minutes from Windermere to downtown. Why was this money spent, again? The purpose of the BRT was to serve points in between Public Square and University Circle, like CSU and the Clinic. The end-to-end comparisons (with the #6 bus) are interesting, but useless. Anyone going from end to is crazy not to take the Red Line, which covers this route in 18 minutes.

Cool. I like both the river and under-the-Rapid setting, though I can't quite picture the location. Is it near the new rowing boathouse?

Miami asks for LeBron to take a pay cut, then Pat Riley basically calls him out, embarrassing his manhood if he even THINKS about leaving South Florida... This AFTER LeBron has led the Heat to 2 championships and even this year, in losing, he's the only Heat to show up in the Finals... Maybe it's me, but this treatment of the King is far worse than Gilbert's email.

For the record that DMU is not light rail, it is commuter rail. I want to highlight the differences. operates every 30 minutes 32 mile route 9 stations only operates on weekdays operates between 7am to~7pm Ridership of 2,400 per day In contrast: The Green line in the Twin cities peak frequencies of 10 minutes 18 stations 9.8 mile route operates weekdays and weekends operates between 4am to~3am Ridership of 40,000 per day by 2030 the intresting thing about honolulu is the system is completley automated, with POP and Driver-less trains, once built should be really inexpensive to operate. Then I guess Honolulu's system will be similar to Vancouver's SkyTrain, which is also 3rd rail, high-platform and driver-less, but uses the linear induction traction process, which I don't completely understand technically. If I'm not mistaken, Detroit's People Mover uses similar technology but on a smaller scale.

This looks like the 1st Step in TriRail's reconfiguration and launching service on the former Florida East Coast Line to/through the downtown's of the South FLA cities, including Miami's ... and, hopefully someday, Florida's high-speed rail, long after Rick Scott gone from the gov's chair.

Corey Kluber's first-pitch woes, John Axford's demise and Carlos Santana's sizzling stick: Zack Meisel's musings 5. Under pressure: I have received inquiries about how the Indians have fared in front of large crowds at Progressive Field. So, I did some research. Since the start of the 2012 campaign, the Tribe is 7-10 when playing behind a home crowd of at least 30,000. The team went 3-4 in 2012 and 3-5 in 2013. http://www.cleveland.com/tribe/index.ssf/2014/06/cleveland_indians_corey_kluber.html

^My car, esp its tires, thank RTA profusely for the Shaker Square crossings rehab.

I wouldn't say Austin is a small market. It is more than double Honolulu's population (856K city, 1.9M metro area) and is Cleveland sized in metro pop., which actually justifies an even larger system than they're planning. And that includes the diesel commuter LRT line they already have... Honolulu's new rail system is somewhat extravagant for it's size -- by American standards, anyway. The Hawaiian capital of 953,000 residents (metro area) is spending $5.16 billion for a 20-mile fully elevated, high-platform, 3rd-rail rapid transit network... But Honolulu is hilly, has tight geographical constrictions and pockets of high density (and horrible traffic)... I say more power to them. Their rail system is a gutsy move imho...

I too am underwhelmed by the planned Brookpark station. It looks very much like the (still extant) 1960s-built station it's replacing. I expected more. First, as noted, RTA has set a high bar for Red Line station rebuilds. From rising new University Circle station, to E. 55, to W. 117, to Triskett, to Stokes-Windermere; all these rebuilds are striking, unique and interesting looking. Based on the above rendering, the new Brookpark shares none of that. It looks like a throwback to to the bland, boxy International Style architecture of the 50s and 60s... Second, I expected more simply because we've been waiting so long... this new station has been in limbo for about/over a decade. For all this anticipation, I expected more. Third, it's RTA's busiest station outside Tower City. A lot of people pass through this location. Wouldn't you want a signature station for a place of such high visibility? I thought I'd read that there was some TOD going in at Brookpark in tandem with this station. I know a hotel had been planned before, but fell through -- hence the long-term temporary structure that still stands. TOD certainly would be a plus and, hopefully, blunts what looks to be a dull, uninspiring station building.

Swisher finally put his bat where his mouth had been, lately ...

... bye-bye Joel!

Agreed... I hate to hear moral relativist arguments like: don't the Fightin Irish or Trojans nicknames offend Irish and Greek peoples?... Please... This is 2014 and we know what's offensive and not offensive, and for people to pretend to act like they don't know what is hurtful, when the very group depicted has been complaining that it IS hurtful for, now, decades, totally disingenuous.

^Interesting. Obviously, this is the era when LA's rail transit network had been killed off and the automobile was the new king; leading to the roadside culture and sprawl that is still largely LA today. Thankfully, though, LA's large and growing mass transit network is reversing much of this, creating density and walkable areas, esp in/near downtown... ... btw, gotta love those canned old '50s-era, "Big City" cues.

Amazing how dominating the then-new S&SM was in 1900, but how much smaller, comparatively, it seems next to giants like TT and the Huntington Build.

^Your last point is especially well taken... That corner, with the now-gone County Admin building and its neighbors, being more civic-institutional in nature has long been a downtown dead zone after working hours... The hotel looks to really liven things up, with its added street/retail presence and by simply adding an additional 600-1,000 people there even beyond 9-5.

Yes ... unfortunately!

Per the video: even in Minneapolis, it seemed like there were a lot of grade crossings, and stops for traffic lights... I recently was in LA and rode the Expo and Gold lines, and both those lines rode at street level a lot, and on a few occasions stopped for traffic lights. But in LA many/most grade crossings had typical railroad electric train protected crossings with the red flashing lights and crossing gates which, of course, gave LRV's priority and allowed pretty high speeds. At other portions, trains either elevated on concrete viaducts or went through depressed portions below street level in open cuts to avoid traffic ... It just seemed more of this should have been employed for the Twin Cities' Green Line, even though I recognize that even the just-opened Green line cost a whopping $1B even in its existing surface form.

I am surprised the Feds didn't make RTA pay the traffic light preemption money back since RTA elected to turn it off... Calabrese's answer sounds like passing the buck.