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I wonder what the $440mil Portsmouth bypass will rejuvenate.

Does anyone know if this is the first instance of those sharktooth yield symbols painted in Cincinnati streets? (I don't know the proper name for them.) In Europe they're used without accompanying yield signs -- the signs aren't necessary as people are used to them. Makes for a much nicer environment without sign clutter.

Thanks for the pics ProkNo5. I am disappointed in the generic concrete pavement. They use so many nice materials in the park, but skimp on the paving. I especially think the Ohio River Trail should be a bit more visually interesting and not just look like a boring sidewalk.

Assuming it has a grocery store and a decent diversity of retail/restaurants, it might be appealing to live there because all your needs are in a compact space within walking distance of your apartment. This would be especially true if you have a job in one of the offices onsite. You're the one talking about it being a replacement for downtown and how you never have to leave Mason. Well, people living here may never have to leave Liberty Center. It will give people living there the option of going somewhere and getting sauced and not worrying about driving home, which is not an option for most people in the area currently. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live there. It lacks greenspace and other amenities, like you mention. But it might have the majority of "staples" people need. If it had transit access to the things it lacks, it would be significantly better. My guess is it's a unique enough housing offering to attract enough people to fill the units. Time will tell.

They have a contract. They probably want to get the money without doing the work. Short-sighted, since without an initial line there won't be extensions.

:clap: :clap: :clap: YAY!!! A landmark event for Columbus and the state. Now Cincy and Ctown need to step up their game.

I don't get why people have such an aversion to Ohio being Midwestern. Embrace your Midwesterness, you Midwesterners. Great Lakes is just a sub-region.

Upper South (or apparently Upland South) is the "proper" term. It's the non-"deep" part of the South. I only realized recently that Arkansas is not considered Deep South. I had always lumped it in with Mississippi and Alabama in my head. I've never been there, so I couldn't begin to consider cultural differences. I had the pleasure of visiting MS and AL on my trip to the Sugar Bowl in 2010, though. Guess that means I've been to all the Deep South states. Woo, joy.

I remember semi-frequently seeing men holding hands walking on Ludlow Ave. (Cincy) in the late '80s/earl '90s.

I want to see more of these! Let's see the Roebling Bridge crossing a river of blood with zombies swimming across! Too bad I am the worst artist I know.

Here is Tony Moore's (the artist behind The Walking Dead) vision of what Union Terminal could be: It's poster art for Cincy Comic Con. http://tonymoore.tumblr.com/post/56854073367/heres-a-good-look-at-my-show-poster-art-for-cincy

Is it potable?

Wow, this article is full of "get your government hands out of my medicare" quotes. The system is "broken" because their teat is running dry. Because handouts aren't being allocated as they'd like them to be. Providing public transportation in sprawl is very expensive. Paratransit is insanely expensive, compared to fixed-route transit. Why should state and federal taxpayers subsidize their poor land use planning?

Considering Qualls would be the only person who could have told the reporter that story, she probably included the trolley anecdote herself. Maybe with the misguided hope that the "spiel" part would be fleshed out in the article, haha.

Or a prison system aimed at rehab vs. punishment, like countries with much better crime rates than ours have.

In the same breath. Indianapolis and Indiana don't belong or feel Great Lakes to me. Personally, I feel Cleveland is a lot like Philly, Newark, Baltimore. I think Cleveland feels a lot like Philly. Outside of the row houses, Cleveland mirrors Philly. I could see Newark, maybe, because it has a number of wide boulevards and had its golden age around when Cleveland did, making much of it feel of the same Rustbelt vintage. But it still has a lot more narrow streets and row houses, which as atlas points out, really colors the feel of a city. Baltimore has similar demographics, but the similarities end there. Baltimore feels much more southern and, again, is full of narrow streets and row houses. Philly? Different planets. Only similarity is the blue-collar tough-guy feel that pervades them both. But that's hardly a regional feature.

I'd be more inclined to lump Erie, Pittsburgh, and Buffalo in with the Midwest than Cleveland in the Northeast. People in Chicago and Detroit look at Cleveland as a regional cousin. People in NYC, Philly, and Boston do not.

Fishwrap is a British term for a crappy newspaper (the American equivalent would be rag). Traditionally, I guess at cheap fish & chips places, fish would be sold wrapped in newspaper. Warp, I think, refers to what the Enquirer does to the truth.

There should be an emphasis on repairs and maintenance over building new. And "functionally obsolete" should not be lumped in with "structurally deficient" as though they are equivalent.

^ I suspect the reporter has had a bad day today. I hope that means the streetcar team is going on the offensive with the media. Long overdue. Media is protected by the Constitution (i.e. Freedom of the Press) so they can serve the critical role of informing the public. Whatever can be done to stop them from misinforming the public must be done, for the sake of a healthy democracy.

Depends what you mean by one-stop shopping. The point is there will never be the variety of an enormous store in every neighborhood. The selection will always be over all a bit more limited in urban settings. If you conform your shopping habits to what's available, you can easily one-stop shop every time. Over time, that will be easier to do at the OTR Kroger, as they respond to changing demographics -- which as ProkNo5 noted, they've already started doing. I've lived in urban neighborhoods with varying sizes of supermarkets, with only a couple bikes for transport. Sometimes I'd travel farther for a bigger store or one with better hours or one with cheaper goods, but usually I'd just make do with the closest store for the sake of convenience. Sometimes this meant I spent more money or bought smaller containers of things or bought cheddar cheese instead of something fancier. On the occasion I needed something else I'd just go a bit farther to the store that had it. If you make things part of your staple shopping that can only be obtained at Jungle Jims, you'll run into problems. You have to negotiate with the cards you have in your hand. Which isn't to say you should settle for crap, because that is not the alternative. Ram23, I wonder if you bought the exact same things on the Upper West Side as you bought in Queens, or if you altered your habits a bit to conform to what was on offer at the individual stores. Maybe OTR Kroger isn't there yet for everyone, but it seems to me it has a pretty decent selection, and coupled with Findlay it's certainly nothing to thumb one's nose at.

^ I really like Simpson, and I think Qualls has already sort of taken her under her wing. She seems really bright and committed to progressive causes. Almost like a younger, blacker Qualls, LOL. Not that Young would be a bad choice.

I think the OTR Kroger is pretty nice. If you don't have the time that week to stop by Findlay Market or wherever to get the item you really want, they will have an acceptable substitute. I agree that a demand for one-stop-shopping is counter-urban. Even if there is an increase in suburban-style grocery stores in urban areas, they take up too much space for every urban neighborhood to be served by one and not take a blow to the urban fabric of the city.

Cool story bro.

Community gardens don't have meat and milk and a thousand other things grocery stores have... They also don't have 30 floors of residential above them!