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They aren't spying on girls!

I think the big problem that Burnet Woods faces is that people think it's sketchy. It's not dangerous, so that part of the perception is unfair. But I can see why people would be turned off by the closeted men cruising for sex. Personally, I regularly used the park from the time I was a kid living in Clifton to the time I graduated from UC and skipped town. I cringe at the idea of it being renamed. I thought everyone knew about the park, at least for its large concrete slide. The pond is popular for urban fishing.

I believe that would be ColDayGod.

Well, put it this way: if the bridge leads to any development or business location decisions, these things will happen in KY. Overall, it's a negative for both states, hence why it's an insane boondoggle.

Sherman, If your perspective (hypothetically) is that the bigger city is poised to gain more from such a project, then it would make more sense for a state to invest a greater amount if it has the big city involved. In the case of Louisville, if what you say is true, then the state where the costs lie and the benefits lie is the same (KY), whereas in the BSB case the costs lie in KY and the benefits lie in OH. Or so goes the theory BlackBengal proposed. IMO having a new bridge at all benefits KY more than OH, tolls or none. But that's why KYians would pay more in tolls, so that component of tolls strikes me as fair. Many people cry about it being "disproportionate" because KY residents will pay more, because they'll use it more. But that strikes me as the very definition of proportionate. At any rate, I'm glad to see the project hit a major roadblock (no pun intended), but not happy to see a broad rejection of a proportional user fee (toll) model for this and other projects into the future.

^ The answer would probably be that in L'ville, the situation is reversed, and the jobs are on the KY side of the river. You might then ask why Indiana went for it, and to that I would recommend you look up some of the stuff arenn wrote on the topic, e.g. this.

^ Almost fell out of my chair: His Tea Party azz would know.

Looks like he changed his Twitter handle from @kevinWCPO to @kevincincinnati ... so I'd say it's pretty much confirmed. Ha. Hires a guy from the media everyone charged with being biased. Settles lawsuits with COAST, filling Finney's pockets with $675k almost immediately after taking office. None of this looks shady at all.

Is it feeding time at Troll Zoo?

^ Comments like this are unhelpful for gaining Amy Murray's support as chairwoman of the City Council committee that will have to approve the April 28th application for Federal funding to get the streetcar to Uptown, assuming that is what you want. Maybe you're right, but by that logic, you seem to be saying that she's a public figure who's going to be willing to make a major change in policy, against her constituency, based on a considered, personal investigation of the effects of the policy; but she's also so lacking in confidence that a poorly worded insult on message board full of nerds will offend her so deeply that she'll go back on her dispassionate, reasoned policy change that has enormous potential consequences to her future political career? He's probably more concerned that the sentiment might become a bit of a chorus. Think about the anti-streetcar representatives at the December council meetings. They were crass and abrasive and, while they probably didn't push Flynn or Mann to the pro side, they probably emboldened their position there. They seemed to do that for PG, given some of the statements he made about decorum and thoughtfulness in words. If KRC and WLW and Murray's Facebook followers start to rub in a nastier way than her traditional opponents ever did, she may just feel like our side is the right side on some level.

Wow, that's awful. They must think people are really desperate to move to OTR. I wouldn't doubt these get turned into rentals.

Makes the SCPA's score of the brand seem less noteworthy. Oh well, the contrast should be interesting.

The scared little girl in the shark's mouth is a nice touch.

Hope this works...attaching the PDF. Some nice pictures in there, but almost nothing about the actual plan. Edit: Didn't work. Sorry. Anyway, you'd probably be disappointed by the lack of project detail.

At a private dinner, in absence of the media, with people who would think more highly of her if she said good things. Just sayin'.

I had two friends w/ their bikes parked within 10 feet of each other. One was locked, one wasn't. The locked one got stolen. I guess locking bikes is pointless?

In theory, that's how it works. But theory assumes all economic actors are 100% rational, which is never true.

Looks like a great opportunity for a mixed-use light industrial/residential development. Though that may not be what anyone has in mind. The Spring Grove side probably wouldn't (have to) be too noisy.

I don't know the extent to which you were playing Devil's advocate, but that is a pretty weak argument. If it's truly a concern, what should be done is to get a system in place in case such an event does occur. Top-down vote manipulation, gerrymandering, and campaign finance abuses are far greater dangers to democracy that are already happening. In fact we, could look at these attempts to prevent Democratic voters from casting ballots as top-down vote manipulation, or electioneering. These guys really should have stopped at the voter ID stuff. They risk their transparent aim to chip away at the Democratic voter base turning off moderates. Plausible deniability is rapidly disappearing, and preventing people from casting ballots is pretty fzcking despicable.

Obviously, some people still wish we had them. Is there any doubt Kasich-Husted would implement such a system, were they allowed?

Has there been any motion any of you know of on the bike share? The word is a June launch, but in order to make that I'd expect they should be getting bikes delivered and starting to install racks...I don't know...now-ish?

Listening to some classic DC hXc to liven up my Sunday:

I just noticed ODOT has a picture of Manhattan on their webpage. Strange. https://www.dot.state.oh.us/Divisions/Planning/SPR/ModelForecastingUnit/Pages/TravelDemandModeling.aspx

Wish the city would collaborate with Metro to include some traffic calming in that plan. It's kind of weird to have a transit hub station in such a pedestrian-hostile environment. Not to mention the immediate surroundings are pretty suburb-like, like CVS and University Plaza.

Great pics! Thanks. Edit: The first one looks like it's the playground. Is that opening this Spring or next?