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Yeah, I think that's a huge exaggeration. Streetcar would be a major missed opportunity, but the canceled subway permanently set the city back. There's no comparison between grade-separated heavy rail and a streetcar.

Check here: http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php/topic,333.msg684017.html#msg684017

Wouldn't this basically screw over rural states? And prop up dense, toll-collecting states? Makes you wonder why Republicans would support it.

It doesn't really affect me, and I don't care either way. Definitely not trying to rat on anyone or even complain, BUT... I've noticed, in the past couple weeks, people have started to get pretty loose with their language (at least Cincy posters have; I think it started with the mayoral election). If you guys want to keep up the language rules which have been pretty well kept in the time I've posted here, you're going to have to do a better job of nipping this problem in the bud. If you want to let the four-letters fly, by all means, let it go. I posted in this thread because it was the first one I saw where it sort of fit.

^ Breaking the law by shirking the city's contractual obligations, simply because he doesn't like them, is not going to keep him in office for long. There needs to be a minimal level of continuity from administration to administration to make a solid foundation for residential and business investment. Cranley doesn't seem to get that, and is willing to destroy the city's all-important reputation as a trustworthy business partner. It's not fiscally responsible, it's not pro-business, it's not forward-thinking, it's not progressive, and it's not legal. Knowing the consequences should make a rational person act accordingly. "Making an effort to dislodge Cranley" should very much influence him to legally execute his office's duties, much as the threat of legal consequences keeps regular citizens behaving within a legal framework.

Since there are no cows in the road, I assume it's for pedestrians and cyclists.

^ So, basically, the people who actually read past the headlines are pro-streetcar.

Sad thing is the developments in Corryville are probably superior to the ideal developments of Cranleyville (e.g. that monstrosity in Price Hill).

The most likely solution is for someone to make an open-source WalkScore competitor. I don't think WalkScore publishing their methodology is likely to ever happen.

Maybe in a fantasy world with... I-71 LRT

I don't think anyone is saying Norwood isn't walkable.

I'm sure they changed the parameters in their black box. Also, Google Maps results have certainly changed somewhat (which I think is what they use for their input). Good luck finding out the formulas/algorithms they use. Keeping those a secret is what keeps other people from copying their model, or improving upon it.

Awesome idea! I know Greg Hardman and the Rhinegeist people are already very much on board with the streetcar cause.

With the push to contact CEOs, has anyone tried contacting Jim Koch of Samuel Adams/Boston Beer Company? With the Sam Adams Brewery near the streetcar line, he is clearly a stakeholder. Appears that, despite his company carrying the Boston banner, he has some affection for his home town (and OTR). Having chosen Boston and lived there so long now, he likely has a strong sense of the benefits of public transit. I tried looking for his email or social media profiles, to no avail. I emailed Mallory & Qualls, thinking they might have a way of reaching him. But I want to throw it out there for you people, too. He could potentially be a strong ally, and he's not chained down by any BS local political games which might silence locally-based CEOs.

^ That is a valid position to have. It's also a valid position to think if Cranley cared so much about the city, he would have tried to recuse himself from the job. Both perspectives have merit, IMO. Personally, I take it as a small mark against him, among many other marks against him (many of them much bigger). Probably didn't sway too many minds, and certainly left 16% of registered voters in the Cranley column (enough to win). I think it's convoluted to say it is the same as Kasich's deeds, though. Kasich isn't really supposed to have loyalty to Greater Cincinnati outside the larger fact of Cincinnati (and a chunk of Greater Cincinnati) being in Ohio. If Kasich were on Covington city council, and expected to return and become mayor of Covington, his efforts to take businesses away from NKY would be a better comparison. In terms of representing Ohio exclusively and at the state level, it makes some sense to poach businesses from NKY. In terms of representing (or aspiring to represent) Cincinnati, it is not good to support poaching within the region, and especially not poaching which takes jobs out of the city. I think his firm would likely have understood if he wanted to remove/recuse himself from the case. If he informed them of his (possible) intentions to seek office, they likely would view his winning an election as a positive for the reputation of the firm -- and thus support his effort to avoid any black marks.

Let's do away with the farce and change the name to KickbacksColumbus. Has more of a ring to it, anyway, with the alliterative aspect.

Right? I mean, wheeled transportation is so passe. We should be investing in teleportation tech.

Depends if county Dems/Burke want to get behind it. Portune certainly is, for whatever reason. The city has little to do with this project. Mallory and Qualls were supporters of good rail projects, not just any rail project. Portune doesn't seem to be too interested in ROI, considering his disdain for the streetcar and support for Eastern Corridor.

It's both really. Yes, this. Identifying as Queer is an assertion that one rejects the categories associated with straight/LG/B, I believe. Including Questioning infers support for people who don't know where they fit; usually a transitional state rather than an "orientation," per se. Makes sense to me that the brick&mortar would be closing. It's part of the societal acceptance and normalization process. Sort of like how all the explicitly gay bars (except the Serpent) outside of Downtown/OTR have closed. It got to the point that (e.g.) Bronz (a gay bar) was no more or less gay than (e.g.) Mayday (a "straight" bar). Now there are gay-owned bars, e.g. C&D, which don't bother identifying as gay bars, because there's no real distinction. Still, it's sad Golden Lions closed. Since that was the city's oldest (first?) gay bar from the '60s. Clifton seems to be a lot less gay than when I was a kid living there. The gay scene has been diluted around the city, and the concentrations have moved to Northside and OTR. Clifton was pretty much the gayborhood in the '80s/'90s. Though the Northside scene was picking up, even then, with the Crazy Ladies' Bookstore (closed in the early aughties, I think) and then the GLBTQ Center...which of course just closed. From what I could tell, it was a bunch of lesbians that really started gentrifying Northside.

Exactly. This would be worse in terms of ridership. I meant the London one is not through Central London. It's off to the east, where there is relatively little (aside from the O2 Arena). At least the proposed one in Cleveland is in Downtown. But I still think it's a bad idea. It would be hard to make it very functional for transportation. It's fundamentally a tourism novelty. Not worth subsidizing. People propose these for Cincinnati, as a sort of modern take on the old inclines (in particular up to Mt. Adams). I think the idea is more suitable in that case (it actually could provide a faster & more direct route than other modes could), but many informed people are still skeptical that the math would work.

For. The crowd was too big in the library, so it spilled into Fountain Square, where the jumbotron showed the event.

Surely, Cranley is warming up his crowbar for those bollards.

"The city has spent about $2.4 million of the money so it would have to find it elsewhere in the budget so the whole amount can be returned." This is exactly the type of rational reporting the Enquirer shies away from until the wind starts blowing the other way. Ad infinitum, to keep the controversy going. Two weeks ago, this simple important fact would have been buried in a vague "he said/she said" quote, rather than stated flat-out by the reporter. No integrity. No sense of responsibility. No acknowledgement of the press's critical role and privileged status in a democracy.

Can we amend the charter to make it illegal for anyone who's ever had the legal name of Johnathan Cranley to hold the office of mayor?