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Metro plus isn't a frequent regular line, it's limited-stop frequent service. Unfortunately due to its detour through Uptown OTR though, it's no faster than the route 4 buses between Government Square and Kenwood. Nevertheless, frequent limited-stop service is more like rapid transit than express service, which skips over inner locations to run a more "regular" route farther out.

You have to admit that the kitchen in that house is a dungeon. Tudor houses are some of the most difficult to do new kitchens in because of the thick brick/stone walls in the way, windows that are small and tough to move, and they're usually smashed into a far away corner that has nowhere to expand and no good relationship with the living areas. Steam radiators, no air conditioning, and every bathroom needing a remodel is a tough pill to swallow nowadays too. Not saying it isn't tragic, but it looks like there's an awful lot of gotchas with this house, which was bought for the land and nothing else, sadly.

Went by there the other day and it's hard to even tell where it was. Now it's more "green space" because there's never enough of that to go around.

If they can automate they'll reshore, since that takes labor costs almost entirely out of the equation. Otherwise, yeah.

In the city they usually grind and then put the first of two lifts of asphalt down before starting work on drains, manhole covers, curbs, and whatnot. The second asphalt lift doesn't happen until the very end. I guess it mitigates the torn-upedness of the street for the length of time they're working, and also helps establish the final elevations more accurately. It probably helps with surveying and marking too.

Is that cleaning for "eew I don't want to sit in someone else's sweat" versus actual effective disinfection?

The jury is still out on whether it's even transmittable via breath versus aerosolized droplets from sneezing/coughing, and where that cutoff point is for hard exercise and heavy breathing. Regardless, the more pressing concern for gyms would be trying to disinfect the multitude of surfaces that members touch when using the equipment. It's easy for supermarkets to wipe down the shopping cart handles, but gym equipment has so many touch points. Hand grips like you find on bike handlebars, treadmills, ellipticals, leg presses, pec decks, crunches, benches, etc. tend to be more foamy for good grip and cushioning, and aren't as easily cleaned or sterilized as hard plastic. Even the bare metal on free weights tends to be textured for better grip, which can make a simple spray and wipe ineffective. It's a tough one.

Land tax. Stop rewarding depreciation and demolition with lower tax bills.

^ It would seem so, though with the facade altered/reconstructed at some point. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherith_Israel_Temple_(Cincinnati,_Ohio)

There's been a small version of one of those signs on the Norwood Lateral at Paddock Road for over 10 years https://goo.gl/maps/MknV4xtuYnfFT9xm8 I've never seen a message on it, nor do I know what could even fit on it. If you go back to the July 2012 view you can see the cover panel had popped off and was flapping in the wind. It was like that for a long time too. It was replaced in 2015-2018 but I've still yet to see it actually display anything.

^ Are those swatches even visible anymore?

This sidewalk is something to behold. It feels like there's only 24" between the railings, so two people going in opposite directions need to shimmy around each other. https://goo.gl/maps/74q3wGQwYsG99wux8

It was open on Saturday, one lane each way, with the outer westbound lane blocked off. While that lane is passable for bikes/pedestrians, no effort was made to make it so, with "road closed" barriers at regular intervals blocking nearly the entire width.

Those are nearly all photos from the Library of Congress that were restored/enhanced by Shorpy, and then his watermark was blatantly cloned out. Compare the bottom right: https://www.bygonely.com/bg_item/central-union-station-cincinnati-ohio-circa-1905/ https://www.shorpy.com/node/9142

The Seattle examples at least have a semblance of composition and rhythm (in decreasing order from top to bottom). A lot of "developer modern" just splatters windows and materials randomly over the facade and it's usually post-rationalized as "expressing the interior function on the outside" even though in many cases those windows and other undulations are also random on the inside too. It just ends up looking like the jumbled mess that it is. Also this window is triggering me something fierce.

Woof

A 5% decrease in electricity demand over a full year is insignificant in the face of climate change. Don't we need to be reducing by like half to make any meaningful impact? Also, a 5% decrease leading to a "huge shock to [the] gas industry" shows how messed up priorities and expectations are. Growth at any cost is a major part of the problem. So those nearly half of trucking companies may also consider a 5% reduction to be a "significant" decrease just because of the nature of our race-to-the-bottom economy.

Except now they have to work well into the evenings to make up for all the lost time dealing with their kids. They're bugging you all day, wanting cooked meals instead of a bowl of cereal for breakfast and a bagged lunch, or calling for help when the wifi goes down. Plus if you don't have a home office, finding space for them to do their school Zoom sessions, your WebEx meetings, and the spouse's GoToMeeting conference calls, can be a real challenge. Yeah if the kids are quiet and you all have good headsets then you can do work/school in closer proximity, but that's more of a best case scenario than the norm. It is unfortunate that the "home office" is usually just a repurposed bedroom, because in a lot of houses bedrooms are lousy places to sit in all day.

That's the part that is missed by all the "pandemic is the death of density" doomers. The counter-argument being made by Strong Towns is as follows: So yeah, it may be easier to self-isolate at *home* in the suburbs, exurbs, or country, but as soon as you need to buy food or go to work then you're traveling over much larger distances and mixing with a more widely distributed crowd of people. Even if you have everything delivered, those delivery people and packages are a vector as well, and they're also being spread far and wide.

Oh yes, I went there. It's on!

Partners with Waffle & Steak.

If it's an unfinished basement and there's no risk to any furnishings (make sure anything important stored on the floor is up on blocks), then you may just have to live with it. It's not that big a deal really. Plus as Cleburger said, make sure gutters and downspouts aren't clogged and are properly draining away from the house, same for landscaping. You could install perforated drain pipe yourself if there's somewhere easy to discharge it, though honestly it's best installed as deep as possible, like at the level of the basement floor, which isn't really something to tackle yourself. Still, I looked at a couple houses with that were on hills and they still had wet basement issues. It just comes with the territory. Would it really be possible for a lawyer to determine if the previous owner knew about it in discovery if it was never written down? I bet most of these situations boil down to he-said she-said arguments and no way to prove if the other party is lying. The only two items I can come up with that could be important would be a previous declaration from the last sale showing water leakage, or some documentation from the painter that special primer or other waterproofing paint was needed. Beyond that though? That's going to be tough, and even then probably way more to litigate than would actually be recoverable as Htsguy said.

But there's no guarantee that gas will stay cheaper as fields get depleted. Germany and Japan increased their coal usage after shutting down nuclear plants. If gas goes back to more "normal" prices where it's only feasible to be used for "peaker" plants in times of high demand, what will replace the base load then? Renewables can only do so much.

Consensus seems to be that reductions from the lockdown are but a fraction of what's necessary to actually mitigate climate change. And that's warming to the 2°C level which is still pretty bad but at least somewhat manageable, not any sort of reversal. Total emissions from China have only dropped about 25%, and that's due mainly to manufacturing shutdown, while other countries dropped less than that. Yes automobile emissions have dropped a lot more, and that's been one of the biggest factors in improving local air quality, but trucking hasn't decreased much, nor has electricity, natural gas, or much other manufacturing that may not create much particulate or other noxious pollution, but still pump tons of CO2 into the air. A 50% drop in car driving is a lot, but the whole transportation sector is responsible for 25-30% of US emissions, and personal vehicles only make up about 60% of the transportation sector's consumption, the rest being trucks, trains, airplanes, boats, etc. So that 50% drop in car driving gives less than a 10% reduction in total emissions. Still significant, but not as much as it might initially seem. Of course total transportation sector emissions have gone down more, because of reductions in plane travel (which I think is only 2-3% of total fuel consumption) and somewhat reduced trucking and other transportation. Also, the switch from coal to natural gas power plants is a red herring. The glut of natural gas has come mostly from fracking, and I've seen nothing to suggest this is anything but a temporary bounty, since fracked wells deplete much faster than traditional reserves. Not to bely the benefits to local air quality, which are significant, but a 50% reduction in carbon emissions from coal, which is monstrously high, means there's still a very long way to go, much like the car driving example above. It's like "my old truck only got 2MPG, but my new one gets 4MPG, problem solved!"