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USB outlets :D

That's from Seattle Craigslist.

Cbus gets second-to-last...behind Vegas...wow. The way the list is compiled, "14th best in the country" = "12th worst in the country". At least that article is spun in the positive direction, rather than the usual. They should have just said "ranked 14th among 25 major cities" or something. http://blog.walkscore.com/2012/04/new-ranking-of-transit-systems/

Hmm, you're right, I didn't think about that. I think they typically have driveways, though, which makes it a lot easier to pass if there is a conflict.

http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php/topic,1939.msg616581.html#msg616581

You're being sarcastic right? Of course. Otherwise, just about no one living in the county could serve on the board.

He bought in September, too, before the election.

No SORTA board members should be able to own property near a (potential) transit stop.

^ Epic! Hope it works out well.

Congratulations to Urban Ohio's own Brad Thomas (aka thomasbw) on his appointment to SORTA's Board of Trustees!!! :clap: :clap: :clap: http://www.urbancincy.com/2012/04/new-sorta-board-member-to-focus-on-system-integration-enhanced-bus-service/

Why is it too skinny? Because cars can't travel at 35 mph through it? Tell most European cities that. I agree it's too skinny. You couldnt' make it two way unless you ended all on-street parking there. I guess that would be okay--hadn't really thought about it. But there's no way you can fit two cars down 14th between, say, Vine and Walnut. You can only get one down there now one way with the parking (and there are always cars parked there). The other option is to make it two-way, keep a lane of parking, but have a situation where if two cars end up on it at the same time trying to go through in opposite directions, one of them has to back up and let the other out. Generally, people won't use it, but it keeps it useable and keeps the parking available. Might not be viable with the American legal system, but it's done on old city streets in Europe. It works if people aren't trying to zip all over with their car.

Crime in Cincinnati is fairly average for an American city. A little more toward the bad side. But a little more toward the good side if you control for demographics. Middle-of-the-road for an American city, though, is quite violent. Suburbanites who think it is horribly dangerous are delusional, and most have no frame of reference beyond folk knowledge and an occasional news story. They think "Clifton" is a murder haven, when chances are Clifton (the real one, not CUF/Corryville) is safer than where they live. Here is some perspective: http://www.iamexpat.nl/read-and-discuss/expat-page/news/amsterdam-murder-criminality-rates The 4th most dangerous European capital had 16 murders in 2011. Given Amsterdam has 2.5 times the population of Cincinnati, that would be like if Cincinnati had 6 or 7 murders in 2011. Yeah, I didn't forget a zero. And don't think there is no poverty or diversity in European capitals, there is plenty. Americans are used to crime, and think it is the norm. I see a lot of that in this thread. I believe OTR is getting safer, but relatively speaking it is not very safe. I know there was that study about safety which included worker population showing downtown/OTR was very safe compared to suburbs. Excluding worker population would be unfair, but including it is also unfair. Daytime worker population is irrelevant when walking home after stopping at the bar. I would be a little nervous walking by myself from that hipster bar in Brighton or somewhere up near campus back to my condo in the Gateway Quarter at 2:30-3:00 a.m., and I am not one to be easily spooked, and I am fairly good at being "aware of my surroundings". This nervousness would not keep me from doing it, but it would keep me from doing it with any frequency and I would try to avoid the situation (it is a statistics game -- the chance of any one incident is low, but you keep doing it and the chances go up). That's a circumstance which doesn't exist in other places, places which I consider "safe".

I think City Blights lives in Western Europe. Compared to there, Cincinnati is incredibly dangerous.

Cincinnati comes in 8th for Most Polluted City, gets awesome fisheye panorama for a prize: http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2012/real_estate/1204/gallery.polluted-cities/8.html If the proportions for Great American Tower appeared as they do there IRL, I would like the building much more!

What are you talking about? It's from a 54 page discussion paper that details it's findings, not some random list compiled on a reporters desk. I'm sure the numbers are fine, but they do not say what they are being presented as saying.

I can think of several cases where someone I know was the victim of a violent crime. Most in Northside (people getting jumped), a couple in Corryville (a mugging and a no-clear-motive slash with a razorblade to the face/lip by a passerby). If we are only looking at murder, I agree.

I'm definitely not looking at year-over-year statistics, because those don't mean anything. The average homicide count for the past decade was somewhere between 70 and 80, and the average for the decade prior was somewhere around 40. You can find the data and crunch the numbers if you want, but I'm pretty sure those rough estimates are accurate. There has been a downward trend in the past couple years (again, year-over-year data is useless), but nothing nearly as dramatic as the upward spike after the riots. If the 2010-2020 average turns out to be 20+ lower than the 2000-2010 average, I will then agree that the trend is quite solid.

They both play in MetLife Stadium. They could have built a football stadium in Brooklyn instead of a basketball arena. Or they could have built the Red Bulls stadium there instead of in Harrison, NJ. Whatever the reasons, NY seems to habitually give NJ the shaft when it comes to sports franchises. Stealing the Nets is the most egregious example to date.

The murder rate spiked after the riots and has not gone back down. It used to be 40ish murders/year. For the past decade it has been 70-80. And don't forget the city lost 10% of its population in that decade. I'm not sure about other crimes, but the effect of the riots on the murder rate is pretty amazing.

Glad someone broke radio silence, but I was hoping my question had been answered. :( Seems like the national media is more savvy than most of us here at this point.

Isn't their current arena just a couple years old? I guess the Nets will need another new arena to call home in another couple years...?? You know, to stay fresh?? I wouldn't feel like the move was such a raw deal if they kept the NJ name. The NY Giants, Jets, and Red Bulls play in NJ, after all. I don't know how anyone could be a NY sports fan. Or NJ, really. The sense of community is too diluted, especially when the teams are statewide or they play in a different municipality/state. If NKY got a basketball or hockey arena, I wouldn't want the team to have Cincinnati's name attached. And I would be less of a fan if the Cbus Blue Jackets were the Ohio Blue Jackets. (Or, heaven forbid, if the Reds/Indians/Bengals/Browns/Cavaliers went statewide.) It's one of the fallacies of being a Buckeyes fan, especially if you're not an alum.

Thanks, Obama and Kasich.

LOL, I guess I am a Cincinnati hater. The problem I have is that the statistics he was using were not proper indicators of what he claimed they showed (i.e. how peaceful a city is). At least not proper by themselves. It's like judging schools' academics by truancy numbers and class size, with no attention to grades and test scores. I'm glad Cincinnati is getting recognition for its peacefulness, but I'd rather the recognition come from a higher quality study. Also, JohnClevesSymmes is right on target.

Richard Florida is completely out of touch. He is like the Paris Hilton of the urbanist scene. Shallow and diva-like.

For real. This is a completely counter-intuitive list that I have no faith in.