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The NextConnect can't possibly use actual location information. It is nowhere close to being correct for the Healthline or RedLine in my experience.

The most over saturated market in America.

^^^ For Cleveland I have a different source which I calculated to be 13.63. Cleveland is a large area so you can expect some areas to be much higher, and some to be much lower. Sure. I guess Cleveland Heights is a bit higher on the list than I would have expected. One thing to note is that these are raw numbers, so population is not accounted for. With that said, I still believe Cleveland Heights would be near the top. It is also interesting to note how some cities(mostly middle ring suburbs) with higher crime rates dropped dramatically in the robberies list. They make up for the lack of robberies with assaults. East Cleveland - 174 Maple Heights - 67 Euclid - 93 Lorain - 147 University Heights - 11 Eastlake - 2 North Olmsted - 3 Amherst - 6 Shaker Heights - 20 Lakewood - 49 Chagrin Falls - 0 Westlake - 2 Cleveland Heights - 68 Chardon - 1 Mentor - 21 Parma - 44 Rocky River - 3 Beachwood - 5 Solon - 9 Strongsville - 6 Avon - 7 Willoughby - 3 Robberies highest to lowest East Cleveland - 174 Lorain - 147 Euclid - 93 Cleveland Heights - 68 Maple Heights - 67 Lakewood - 49 Parma - 44 South Euclid - 24 Warrensville Heights - 21 Mentor - 21 Shaker Heights - 20 University Heights - 11 Solon - 9 Avon - 7 Amherst - 6 Strongsville - 6 Beachwood - 5 North Olmsted - 3 Rocky River - 3 Willoughby - 3 Eastlake - 2 Westlake - 2 Chardon - 1 Chagrin Falls - 0 My thought is "define violent crime". A lot of assaults and such get pled down to disorderly conduct. Murder, Rape, Agg Robbery, and Assault. Cleveland Heights does have a surprisingly low number for assaults for its size and other crime stats.

Well I looked and I had 2010 and 2011 stats so they are somewhat outdated but based on those I do not find that statement to be true. In 2011 Cleveland Heights had a violent crime rate(per 1,000) of 3.17. In comparison, University Heights had 7.31, Shaker Heights had 4.96, Chagrin Falls with 3.65, Euclid with 11.35, Mayfield Heights with 3.29, Maple Heights with 22.60 and East Cleveland with 130.64! Edit: Just found a list I posted on here from a while back which included more cities. East Cleveland - 130.64 Maple Heights - 22.60 Euclid - 11.35 Lorain - 10.95 University Heights - 7.31 Eastlake - 5.76 North Olmsted - 5.59 Amherst - 5.07 Shaker Heights - 4.96 Lakewood - 4.93 Chagrin Falls - 3.65 Westlake - 3.30 Cleveland Heights - 3.17 Chardon - 3.11 Mentor - 3.10 Parma - 2.90 Rocky River - 2.47 Beachwood - 2.34 Solon - 2.23 Strongsville - 1.63 Avon - 1.60 Willoughby - 1.48 I have additional information for other cities if anyone is interested and I also have exact numbers for crimes(homicide, robbery, rape, larceny, etc.) rather than violent/non-violent crime rates.

Why even report that they were male? That describes even more people!

Unless it is in the heart of downtown Cleveland...

Its not unusual for a large scale new project to have some vacant spaces. Wrapz Pita Bar is taking up one. One is currently being used as a construction office for phase 2, and Cleveland Beer Cellars just opened. Accent is probably the largest space and they just closed so give it time. Edit: No idea about the garage design.

A parking garage is going back there.

Both of these thoughts had cross my mind as well. Also, I can't help but wonder how it will handle the snow. Regardless, I love it. Everything will probably be solid, not "hanging" so that should remove any issues with wind. It will look like a chandelier, but it will not move or be built like one.

It will have a major impact on the view when traveling down Euclid Avenue. I like it.

To me any extension of either the Red Line or Healthline to Euclid makes no sense (coming from an eastsider). All money/effort should be looking at a Lakewood route.

Great set! Thanks for sharing. Where is this brick house located?

I have crime statistics for every city in the region from 2011 and 2012 I believe. I currently don't have access to it but might be able to get a hold of it in a week a so.

What a freaking joke. An embarrassment for the city.

Good luck! Building looks great.

Special teams has been terrible today!

I'm not sure how much you explored the neighborhoods, but from my experience of going all throughout the city, I don't find that to be true. They have countless distinct neighborhoods all with different vibes and income levels. All active.

Savannah is different than most cities. But Toronto is not bland. They have some great architecture. I'm not sure if you have ever been there but go check out Queens West, Kings West, Yorkville, Kensington Market, Bloor Street, St Lawrence Market neighborhood, and Yonge Street. Miles and miles of historic buildings in active neighborhoods with unique uses. Throw in streetcars and subways and it's an amazing city. They also have had recent building booms adding large new glassy residential towers which compliment the existing architecture. For buildings that can't be saved, you often see the full facade integrated into the design which provide for some cool places.

May Company would have been the perfect location. Way less street frontage(a plus), and it already had a large attached parking garage. Would have avoided the demolitions and the skywalk. If they were to expand, my dream would be for them to expand to the upper floors of the Higbee and remove most of the gaming space on the first floor in favor for the retail space they desired. You can have retail entrances along Ontario and Public Square which would really help things out. I think this situation would be the most desirable.

I'd argue cities would have been better off with a libertarian mindset. Suburbs couldn't have happened , or at least to the extent they have, if the federal, state and local governments didn't intervene. Think about it. Urban Planners have done far more bad than good. Cities were much better when they grew organically.

Staffed stations are way too expensive for a light-density rail system like ours. I guessssss. Ha! It just something I liked when using other systems in other cities. We would have to have a lot more ridership to justify it I suppose. A lot. About 20 times that of the Brookpark station, our second highest ridership station at 1400. Funny story.... A colleague of mine was in town from Washington DC a couple weeks ago. We rode all the rail lines in the system. We rode the light-rail lines last. When we got on board the trains, he remarked at nice the light-rail cars were. I told him they are actually several years older than the heavy-rail cars on the Red Line. He was stunned. It's amazing what a mid-life overhaul can do for your rolling stock! Funny. I have a friend who is a west sider and takes the red line often but never took any east side rail. He came with me on the Green Line to Shaker Square and he liked the light-rail a lot more that the red line vehicles.

I think a shuttle would fail and leave a bad taste in everybody's mouth, spoiling the chance of an actual expansion.

There already is a walkway between the platforms. They use it for special events I believe but close them off the rest of the time. Has the tower city station ever been heated? It's cold down there!

I just experienced it so nobody yet. Sorry for sharing my thoughts. No discussion on this board is technically meaningful but that doesn't make it pointless or wrong. We complain for pages about the skywalk or about CSU building layouts. We discuss but we never make a difference. If that rule was actually implemented there would be nothing but news articles with no discussions making this site pointless.

^Personally I think the major stations should be manned and should have turnstiles. This keeps the system fast, safe, friendly, and cuts down on farehoppers. Also I think it is time to update the automatic station voice thing. At East 105th it says "...and future home of the Juvenile Justice Center" Overall the ride was fine, cars were clean, but in need of upgrading. I know its probably not RTA's responsibility, but something has to be done about the lights under the bridge over Euclid Avenue at the Euclid/East120th station. Its a long, uninviting bridge which is made even worse by having no lights/burnt out lights. At one section I couldn't even see the ground in front of me. Not a nice gateway into University Circle, and not a pleasant/safe walk for RTA customers using that station.