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Maybe so, but I also pointed out that Vine Street's slope is very consistent as well, and that's what's important.

Umm...John, Details please! How did no one else ask about this post yet? Because John doesn't like to elaborate on such things. :-P Just think it's best not to talk about these things until they're signed, sealed and delivered. By mid-May ... See? :lol:

Umm...John, Details please! How did no one else ask about this post yet? Because John doesn't like to elaborate on such things. :-P

You mean he's not sandboxed in here? :D

Now to get them to actually DO that.

Now now, you do need at least ONE wire to power the thing.

It's still on a different rail line though, that's what makes it such a head banger. Now it might, MIGHT be possible to detour back to the Mill Creek Valley via the former B&O through Norwood, but that's quite a detour. Has there even been any further clarification to where exactly this Bond Hill station would be? If it was along the former B&O near where Showcase Cinemas used to be, that might make a little sense as a future commuter station, but the only other possible location seems to be near Cincinnati Gardens and Langdon Farm Road. There's no real logical commuter rail path to there. The idea about some sort of light rail connection to Lunken is also stop-gap. The reason Lunken was picked over the Boathouse is because of NIMBY opposition along Riverside Drive and because of the cost to further upgrade the rest of the Oasis tracks to downtown. Light rail may or may not be more amenable to those people, but the tracks would still have to be upgraded regardless. Only with light rail, that's a whole new project to be developed, and by the time all is said and done the 4th main down the Mill Creek Valley could be in operation. Whether the temporary station is Bond Hill, Lunken, or somewhere in between, the issue is that it's still tens of millions of dollars that could instead be going to a Union Terminal solution. Union Terminal may not be achievable right away, but this temporary station is going to be boondoggle-ized by all the naysayers out there, especially since they're of dubious value for future passenger use. As I already mentioned, Bond Hill seems an unlikely candidate for a commuter station. Something in the Columbia-Tusculum/Lunken/Linwood area probably would be, but for both stations the money is being spent on the wrong end of the line. The connections to downtown don't exist, and those are the difficult ones. It's the same "let's do the easy part first" mentality that helped destroy the subway plan back in the 1920s. So yes, Sharonville sucks, but at least it's on the way to Union Terminal, not down some separate branch line. Sharonville could even stay in use when Union Terminal is finally reached, but that's unlikely to happen with the other stations without some sort of shuttle run. It just makes more sense to save up the money to put towards the solution everyone seems to want, rather than throw it at a temporary solution that has little other use down the line.

Especially since Bond Hill is still on the wrong $%&@ rail line. At least Sharonville is "on the way" to Union Terminal.

I've brought this up before but it was never answered. Is the highway patrol just a money sink? What sort of revenues do they generate from issuing citations? Yes, $318 million per year is a lot, but that's an unfair number to throw around without including income/revenue as well. It would be the same if the yearly cost of the 3-C project was thrown around without including the revenue from ticket sales.

Actually, it's most likely just a cooling tower. The chillers themselves would be inside somewhere. That is pretty small, and probably only for the last few upper floors.

Here's a few shots I took from Covington earlier today.

Are they ill-tempered?

Wouldn't that have the same problems as the fountain? Like visibility? And maybe attracting pedestrians? Not if the sharks had frickin' laser beams attached to their heads.

I disagree with the notion that the system should be extended for "development potential" when it compromises operations. I'll just leave it at that. However, I believe the reason McMicken was cut off in favor of Henry Street was because the turn from Elm to McMicken is too sharp.

It's still "just one or two blocks to the streetcar" though. Does it really need to be directly on the line? I don't think so.

This is more like a traffic circle (the radius is really larger than it should be for a proper roundabout) but you're right. http://homepage.mac.com/jjakucyk/portfolio/otr.html

Yes

I still wish they'd lop off that last bit to Henry Street, cut it back to Findlay so the trip from downtown to UC doesn't spend five blocks going in the wrong direction.

I was riding over the Purple People Bridge a little before sunset and noticed a sort of arched truss up near the top of QCS, was that it?

At least crown makes more sense, this is QUEEN City Square after all.

Does it have to be called a tiara? I know that's the "inspiration" for it, dumb as that may be, but tiara just sounds so...dumb as well.

Pffft, I already knew that. :roll: I signed up on the website a while ago, but I haven't participated in anything so far.

So what prize do I get?

It's Eden Park.

You gotta give Dayton some credit for maintaining an electric trolleybus system long after they disappeared from most of the rest of the country. They may not have the appeal of streetcars, but they don't get as much love as they deserve. I've always been thoroughly dismayed by how horrible the engine noise is inside even brand new diesel buses. Trolleybuses don't have that problem, and while not totally silent, they're very very quiet. They also tackle hills much better than diesel buses, which is why they're still used in San Francisco and Seattle. I don't think that's a factor in Dayton, but it's worth noting. Of course, they also don't pollute the air where they run, with fumes or noise. It's a very valuable bit of green infrastructure that they should be touting much more.