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Agreed... the Gateway garage is centrally located and usually 75%+ empty on weekends/evenings... its a helluvalot easier to park there and walk or catch the streetcar than it is to find street parking. I also find it amusing that the surface lot between Jackson and Walnut directly next-door is charging $10 to park (no such thing as hourly parking) when there is a huge, security-monitored parking facility 20 feet away for only $8 a day.

With as much confusion there is about Cincinnati's airport being 15 minutes away in NKY, I can only imagine how much confusion there would be if the main Cincinnati terminal was north of Wilmington! :)

There's a whole generation of kids slightly younger than us (30-36 y/o) who think of them as an important "punk" band. I believe this is a misguided notion, but nevertheless these people exist.

Excited about this, but that is a terrible name if you're trying to attract a similar clientele.

That explains why my family keeps bringing it up every time I see them. I wondered why they kept talking about something they have such little vested interest in....

I know its supposed to discourage loitering and crime, but a lot of that pdf reads as a list of ideas to discourage people from actually using the park for doing like... park things... heaven forbid people be able to sit in a park!

There's some truth to this... it mostly lies with the fact that the auto infrastructure is built around "everyone" driving. This makes it difficult for autonomous cars to predict bad drivers doing stupid things. As non-autonomous traffic is phased out and infrastructure is geared more toward autonomous vehicles, making reliable autonomous travel would be much easier.

There's a lot more industry pressure to remove drivers than most of the other "failed" techs that the article points out. Certainly the trucking industry would absolutely love to not have to pay the people who have to drive for them. Other delivery services like Amazon, Fedex, and UPS are also keen to ditch drivers asap. Heck, I bet Papa John's and Domino's would be on-board with the change as well. I think 2020 is ambitious, but I'd bet by 2030 autonomous vehicles will be a significant percentage of the total vehicles on the road...

^ Jeez.... they could totally have done the inside without the disaster that happened outside. What a waste....

Eastsiders and Westsiders couldn't agree that this just makes sense?

Can we just rename Jefferson to "Vine" if they rename "Short Vine"?

Travel time to Iceland is about 6.5 hours. We've gone up there twice. Travel from Iceland to Glasgow was another 2.5 or so. I'm guessing that most other EU destinations would be ~4.... so you're looking at about 10 hours.

I don't think OTR venues really want to give space for musical acts these days, even for just a weekend. They're doing well enough on a regular basis that they might actually lose money having bands playing.

Can we call it Desdemona II?

I was also going to say Republic... er Bremen St.

That space could be good if it is managed correctly. Especially with the disappearance of Neons....

As of this morning, demolition has *finally* begun on the Cincinnati North hotel.... :clap:

^ Instead of a PBR windmiill, can we please have a Hudy Delight windmill?

I last went to King's Island in 1996. They were definitely still there. I missed the entire Son of Beast era. Pretty sure they were still there when I worked there in ~2001.... weren't they replaced by that Italian Job thing? That movie didn't come out until 2003....

Is it really any different than much of downtown? Nope, not at all. I hate driving both Vine and Main between Central and Liberty, especially on the weekends. Although at least the traffic on Vine is much slower than Taft or Main... I love pedestrians, but in OTR people are constantly jumping out into the road from between parked cars, either trying to look for an opportunity to jaywalk, or to actually jaywalk. It really keeps you on your toes driving down there.

Running red lights is bad.. Is that the first streetcar involved accident with actual passengers?

Every time I drive through there it makes me nervous. With the speed people are going, the crazy parking, and students crossing wherever they please... its a wonder more pedestrians are not hit.

Took the streetcar for the first time yesterday. Ticketing kiosks were inoperable when I arrived at 12th and vine. Walked to the music hall stop, but that one was inoperable as well, so we just got the app which worked fine. I'll probably just always use the app from now on. The streetcar got us from CMH to Rhinegeist in a flash, it was certainly worthwhile, even for such a short trip. My wait for the return trip from Rhinegeist was around 25 minutes, the lightboard said "delayed" for most of that. The Bengals game had just gotten out, so I assumed it was because of that, but when a streetcar finally arrived, the driver kicked everyone off and said the car was having issues and was being taken out of service. After I finally got picked up, it was great to get down to the gateway garage in only a few minutes. I talked to some tourists while I waited and they were very complimentary of the system and said the rode it all weekend while they were in town. I also overheard a bunch of good comments from other riders while I was on it. I can definitely see myself using it frequently, but it certainly has some things that need to be ironed out.

Those Findlay market lots are pretty crowded to begin with on the weekends, I hope people don't start doing that too much!

Could those just be the overflow busses they have been using?