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This merits repeating...

You know KJP, I was on the road and asleep at the info switch... Thanks for the heads up... I'm actually stunned at what you are reporting and, of course, hopeful. It has been my feeling all along that extending the Red Line is the most attractive option but, cost-wise and rider-wise, at least with the prior numbers reported in the study, electrified rail didn't seem to make sense. Now, who knows?

Fetterman's a hip dude; he's making inroads in Braddock ... Wilkinsburg is the East Cleveland of Pittsburgh; maybe not quite as decayed.

^^No doubt, KJP, picking Manziel was a great marketing tool. Season ticket sales, as well as Jonny M. Browns jersey sales, spiked within an hour of the pick. All eyes will be on Cleveland -- you can bet we just earned several national TV slots; I just hope it's not for the usual embarrassment our sports teams and our athletes have given us over the years.

I agree, there are a no. of good WRs on the board, so I'm less worried about that. I still would have liked Watkins, though... Yes, no more Buster is huge, no doubt.

Sorry to be Debbie Downer, but I was not pleased with last night’s festivities. First and foremost, I'm not sold on Johnny Football. My heart sank when Jacksonville grabbed Blake Bortles at no. 3 right before the Browns. Then to compound the mistake, we passed over Teddy Bridgewater for Manziel at no. 22 (where we traded up with the Eagles to get him), who fell to the Vikings at no. 32. I think both Bortles and Bridgewater will turn out to be considerably better than Manziel – I hope I’m wrong, because I’m a diehard Brownie, but being old enough to see how many bad QB picks we’ve made over the years that have crippled this franchise – from Mike Phipps to Couch, to Brady Quinn, to Colt McCoy, to Weeden, etc., etc… Yes, we obviously did get it right with Bernie (and look at the run we had with him) and we may have gotten it right with Hoyer who has merely been a promising “Incomplete” to date,… Quarterback is the foundation of your franchise as in no other professional sport and, too often, the Browns bow to popular opinion/pressure rather than really doing their homework and assessing the prospect’s actual talents, or lack thereof. I truly believe Haslam was behind this pick and I’m fearful Manziel will be a bust… again, hope I’m wrong.. Also, while I liked Farmer’s trade out of the no. 4 pick, I’d have rather grabbed Sammy Watkins rather than Justin Gilbert. Granted it is nice to have a quality CB back there with Haden (egad, no more Buster Skreen!!), but we needed a quality WR more … a guy who could compliment Gordon and who could add depth to our receiving core in the vent of injury…Aside from 1 guy here and there, we really haven’t had a quality wide receiving core since the 1980s.

I totally disagree. The causal linkage is the point. Accurately (or inaccurately in this case) reporting the causation of transit development for a mode like BRT can, in the future, help RTA build the most effective transit line per the corridor served and help avoid the mistakes in planning routes like the HL which, as noted by other UOers, is suffering serious service shortcomings along a route that is far from being fully developed, especially in the core Midtown area. Failure to interpret facts accurately simply compounds errors in urban planning, and we’ve seen far too much of this in Cleveland, esp. in regards to transpiration, transit and RE development (ie. the Public Square redevelopment)

^Indeed Paul, the closer it looks the more insignificant the surface lot seems; which of course is a very good thing.

It's not my opinion, it's fact.

^Well we know downtown's renaissance more coincidentally and simultaneously occurred along with the HL's creation rather than the latter causing the former, as BRT advocates like the Institute for Transportation Development Policy (and The Atlantic) would have you believe... The phony BRT-sparked-$6B--in-TOD-development continues to be batted around as though it's fact, and will continue to be unless those of us who know better publicly and effectively refute it.

Excellent questions!

They've pretty much made it clear that a BRT extension would be a seperate route from the HL. But that would make no sense. Any extension would have to be an extension of the HL, not a brand new BRT, so that what McLovin is saying is logical.

Good quetion. One thing's for sure, we won't have long to find out.

Hey I’m the PHS chandelier curmudgeon, but even I wish I could have been in town for all the fun… Maybe this wacky gimmick will end up being a positive, national conversation piece for the city while, more importantly, giving this great ‘hood a sense of place making it more of a destination point than it’s been in the past… we can only hope.

^Hey Winterton sounds nice; glad you had fun and are enjoying your intro to Cleveland -- nothing like singing the N.A. before a stadium full (or partially full in Cleveland's case these days) house... I had the occasion to do it several time before the Phillies... ... back to the game: great to see us take our frustrations out last night over our new (or should I say Terry Francona's) beeatch: the Chicago White Sox, after that disastrous West Coast swing... Yet, as bad as it was, we have our own Indians’ Zen Master in Tito, I'm not going to worry much about them .... look at the many adversities this team went through last year: long losing streaks (including 8 and 5 game L streaks), having our closer flip out and having our ace, Masterson, get put on the DL right after Labor Day, and yet we STILL rallied to make the playoffs, first time in 6 years (and the ONLY Cleveland team since 2010) … Francona, after all, is the man who broke the 86-year Curse of the Bambino in Boston, so it would be very foolish to count him out, … ever… … is it just me, or is Nick Swisher morphing into Chris Perez before our eyes? Lately Mr. Sunshine (“Brohio”) has become Mr. Bitchy/whiner, cursing out reporters Wed night after the LAA debacle and, now, ripping the media after he has a decent game and the team’s bats finally coming out… SHUT UP ALREADY and just play the friggin’ game. Let your bat (and questionable glove in Swisher’s case) to the talking.

I like the new plan and am glad the parking garage across the street has been removed along with the overhead walkway (what some call a gerbil tube). The only problem is that, at the moment, this leaves an empty lot across Mayfield Rd. Even a garage there would likely have had street-level retail facing Intesa which would create density and excitement. Also, the circular drive at Circle Drive & Mayfield in front of the Abington Arms is a tad wide for my tastes, but let's see what shakes out. Overall, 2 big thumbs up...

Wooooow.

Well, the ball is officially rolling. Let's see how far, and how fast, this mult-phase project gets. I'm actually beginning to warm up to it a bit more.

This planning is ridiculous: ODOT is building a grade separated intersection, yet the most disruption will be from an ingress/egress connector btw the 2 roads – complete with traffic lights at both end -- that will wipe out a bunch of houses. And sorry E.Rocc, regardless of what condition we may perceive these buildings, there are people who call them home. And I drove around this area recently, and found those houses are not in as bad a shape as even I perceived; and there’s a bit of density there too (behind that awful mini-junk yard)… If planners/advocates want to make this the road (As in: not a highway) the advocates say the OC is, then they should build an at-grade intersection at E. 55 because Keith is right, there already IS a traffic light there with siphoned I-490 (and I-77) traffic. If they keep it at grade they save the homes and minimally keep the RTA station accessible without spending a ton of cash.

Piccadilly finally has a lit sign. Nice.

Not surprised. I thought the Fall 2014 date was a bit overly ambitious.

Winterton & Clueless (as always), thanks for the pics. Mitchell's looks like a winner: a tourist attraction as well as an ice cream joint -- plus an art gallery too! Can’t wait to visit. The co-owner mentioned in the PD article that Ohio City is hardly recognizable with improvements from year to year… It’s more like, from month to month.

^Oh OK, thanks for the clarification... Seems like there may be some funding/application option(s) to the seemingly limited study RTA is engaging in.

Except that it wasn't studied. I really like your Option 2, so I throw out the following: Can such a study be undertaken in the future? Can, say, the parameters be expanded? And to facilitate the preceding, could a NEO rail district, including ODOT, be formed as an FTA receiving body not unlike that formed in Elyria to upgrade the current Amtrak station into the Elyria Transportation Center?

Isn't that women’s' boutique, Anne van H still open in Uptown's pavilion area?