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Pathetic they wouldn't offer an SSD in this day and age!

Have they finally implemented the pre-paid farecards? I remember they were supposed to do so before the end of 2012.

My memories of food at UC are dominated by the Food Bubbles.

^ Noooooooooooo. Anchor Grill.

Right, it's about Ohio cycling news (and advocacy and developments) ... not really sure where King James biking in Florida fits in.

Yawn. I get annoyed by seeing his name and I don't really care at all about the Cavs.

My bro can't stand Camp Washington. I like it. People watching there is great. Last time I was there late at night some LARPing event had just let out and all the vampyre faeries or whatever tf were in CW Chili, hahaha

In this thread: Gold Star people! Seems like almost everyone I know prefers Skyline.

Everyone should just get fancy NYC jobs and not give a sh!t about increasing fares!

Hopefully that means population gain.

What happens if they lose to Pitt, beat Baltimore, and those two win against Cleveland and NYG? Does Pitt get the nod because they beat us twice?

Not sure what Michigan's right to work law has to do with KC streetcars. ???

The other way to go could be to close the bridge off to non-commercial traffic. Whenever anyone questions the necessity of a new bridge, 10 people chime in about how very important the bridge is to the national economy. This is one of the arguments against tolls: "the feds should pay for it, it is in the national economic interest!" So how about the existing bridge be open exclusively to these precious commercial vehicles? Congestion will be mitigated and the "need" for a new bridge disappears. Then maybe the commuters can be honest about the cause of the congestion and just whom the bridge is really for. Then maybe they'll be willing to pay their share. (Yeah...lol)

I see this as the one saving grace of the bridgedoggle. It forces the introduction of tolls to the area. While nowhere near ideal, I think it is unlikely to happen otherwise for a long time. Introducing user fees to highway infrastructure, thereby decreasing subsidies, will be a great step toward making other modes more competitive.

Whatever. You guys act like you have all the answers, but you don't. We just want to know how the details work. I guess your curiosity is satisfied. Mine is not.

Medieval Amsterdam, for one. That's why it is full of townhouses that can be less than 10 ft wide, but six stories tall. Of course, they didn't tax buildings at all, only land. They taxed the frontage along the canals. So you get narrow but deep buildings.

Sorry if I worded that poorly. CAK is the cheaper alternative to CLE. But if CLE were to lose hub status as a strong United hub, then CAK loses its appeal and marketing as the cheaper alternative. Fares at CLE would drop and you'd probably see another low cost carrier enter the market at CLE making CAK seem less attractive for travelers coming from the Cleveland area. Ahh, okay. Makes more sense. CVG has recently been rated the most expensive airport, despite all the downsizing. So even with a smaller size, CLE might retain higher prices. Hopefully not, though. It sucks flying into DAY, CMH, IND, and SDF to avoid sky-high airfares. I definitely don't wish that hassle on you guys.

One reason is because you need cross-state agreements to pair license plates with names & addresses. Since this isn't a law enforcement issue, I don't think that's automatic.

CLE is cheaper than CAK? Wow. DAY is historically way cheaper than CVG. Part of the reason for CVG's relatively poor O&D showing is high ticket prices with cheaper alternative airports nearby. The risk in losing the hub status is the loss of attraction of the region to businesses. Cincinnati lost Chiquita to Charlotte largely because of CVG's downsizing (losing flights to South America i.e. bananaland).

You're right. It's even true on blue state newspapers. Apparently all the radical racist right wingers LOVELOVELOVELOVELOVE internet comment sections. At least it is almost a crack in their echo chamber.

Innnnnteresting. Okay, I at least see that it exists now. Still not sure how this will work for out of state (non-KY/OH) drivers. I definitely imagine people getting confused by this. Especially old people. Oh, well. Here comes the learning curve!

If someone could point to anywhere this has been implemented, I would be satisfied. I just have not seen evidence this technology exists at this level of sophistication.

Nice comment section. Indianans sound like Ohioans.

Exaaaaactly. It could still work with a prepaid subscription like EZ-Pass. Apply for the program, get charged every time your account goes below X, get discounted use of the bridge. Still, I don't think the camera thing works. No one has convinced me otherwise. So far as I can tell, my sticker idea is the only somewhat feasible one for avoiding toll booths (which could be manned by machines like parking lot exits, avoiding labor costs). Cameras still catch violators, but that's not thousands of vehicles per day.

If I understand the camera system you describe, people will "slip through" by design, just their license plate will be captured on camera. But the logistics of the camera recognizing every possible plate, regardless of what sort of decoration might be on or around the plate, and discerning which state's license plate database to access in order to get address information for whom to send a bill to, and then physically mailing those bills...it seems technologically impossible without a lot of human labor, including database searches, possibly form completion, and envelope stuffing, which may very well incur more labor costs than operating booths. What might work is a system like they have in, I think, Austria, where you have to get a sticker at a convenience store before crossing the bridge. (In Austria the stickers are actually for driving on a stretch of highway. Similar to the county park stickers we have.) Have signs up making this clear miles beforehand. Then have cameras scan windshields for the stickers. If there's no sticker, then the process begins of figuring out who to send a bill in the mail to. But in this case that process only occurs for people who are disobeying the system, greatly reducing the number of license plates needing to be checked. But something like this seems cumbersome, too. Though it would be flexible, and mostly burdensome for people who are one-time/rare users of the bridge. The appeal is that stickers can be as temporary or permanent as necessary, whereas with a transponder system you would not be giving someone on a family vacation from FL to MI a transponder.