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Are you shocked by the metaphor or by the phenomenon it describes? I know which one I find more vulgar.

Kasich really likes punishing geographic areas with a low percentage of Republican voters. Yanking streetcar funds to distribute to other areas, including his home district. Using turnpike money on projects to support suburban SWO. It's more than just throwing a bit of extra money at supportive areas, which all politicians do; it's actively taking away money from less friendly areas.

Thanks for the toll revenue, Nohio.

The answer to that is more restaurants, not less people.

This just sounds like a common barroom brawl that happened on the street instead. People can get knocked out by one lucky punch. People can die from one punch, too, in fact I think that happened in NKY a couple years ago. Usually by getting knocked out, then falling and hitting the head on the ground pretty hard. This type of incident happens all the time, everywhere. It just happened to be in public in a high-profile location.

Figures the host'd throw out the phrase "it's conservative" ("I don't mean politically") to describe the city. It's a mantra for people who don't know anything else to say. I've met several people who, when I say I'm from Cincinnati, those are the first words out of their mouth and the only thing they know to say about the city. The other thing I hear, much less frequently, from people who don't really know much about the city, is that they've heard it has great neighborhoods.

I'll take this time to point out how this map shows Cincinnati to be distinctly northern :P

People from other countries think Americans are idiots when they say they are (e.g.) Italian. "Italian descent" and "Italian" are very different.

^ Thanks for the review. I might have been suckered into watching it, but now I don't think I will.

People are fanatically loyal to Apple. That's the only brand I can think of with an iCult-type customer base. I just like good products at reasonable prices. (On a rare occasion that includes an Apple product.)

One theory would be that it's a union-busting tactic. Under private operation, the formerly unionized employees no longer are, and that lets the city off the hook on their pension obligations.

I'm getting cold feet because so many former supporters are. I was never really for or against it, because I don't trust my own ability to analyze the details and predict the outcome. I know it's been a disaster in other cities, which makes me hesitant to give it support. (Like Harwell Scrabblepound said "I have no confidence this city will be the exception" -- though I wouldn't say it so strongly.) But in principle I think it's an okay thing to privatize, because theoretically the operator would want the same thing we all want -- people wanting to come visit and park in the spaces and have spaces available to park in.

Thanks, Columbo. That post (from 2/14) just barely survived the UO Apocalypse! It's not my favorite, but it's a hell of a lot better than most of the junk getting built in Cincy. I like this infill in OTR better. It fits the historic environment without mocking it.

You got home internet?

Do you have pictures of the project completed? The rendering doesn't look good IMO. Looks like faux-historic schlock. Better than the Northside building, though, I'll give you that.

Feels like we are about due for a summer video. This project makes me more impatient than any other in the city. Even the streetcar.

^ It's basically been that for much longer than OTR has been in its recent state. I agree it must continue improving, and this is a good step...although...the architecture! The horrible architecture!

One of the reasons some people advocate for parking maximums is because, while a developer may wish to build with less parking once minimums are relaxed or lifted, banks are often reluctant to lend in such cases. Putting the maximum in place takes the fear away for banks worrying a competing project with more parking will fare better on the market. I realize this probably doesn't ease the minds of many libertarians regarding parking maximums. However, I think it's usually overlooked that these can be an aid to developers and consumers, by bypassing the length of time it takes banks to get used to the new reality free from the (artificial, government-mandated) old reality of plentiful parking. One could view it as an attempt to correct a previous market distortion, but I realize many/most libertarians would take the "two wrongs don't make a right" tact.

My bad...I thought the point was seeing how the ", Ohio" suffix changed things.

^ You're missing the "so" part.

Any possibility something like this could appear at the top of each page of this thread? I think it would make it more convenient to make a post that comes to mind while in this thread in one of the others. Which maybe will happen less over time, but this is still a hot-button political issue. Anyone remember how many pages there were in this thread before the July 2013 UO Apocalypse?

I think some technological breakthrough like this might be necessary for massive support of a nationwide rail-like network. Many people complain about rail being old technology. I think they are thinking about it wrong (rail tech has advanced right along with road tech), but maybe a paradigm shift is what's necessary. Perhaps one that brings faster-than-airplane travel times to ground travel.

^ Very exciting! :)

Oh waiiit a second, I was thinking that comment I quoted above was from thomasbw, because he and cailes share the same icon. I think cailes is from Indy, which a) saves SWO from catching my flak, but b) means it's spread much farther from Pittsburgh than any of us probably imagined possible! (I think it's ungrammatical, but it doesn't truly bother me; I'm just having fun.)