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it would be so isolated from pedestrian and transit /that it would require a huge parking lot, to accommodate cars, plus the congestion in that area with only access from the north makes it a poor location for such a business.

more along the lines of what intesa would have

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And the Vacant Hollywood Video is better? it is about more than any single homeowner it is about how to nurture the growth of the area and how to foster growth to the other side of Lorain.

I have no problem where it is going, much ado about nothing, in the end it will make the area more attractive to the community not less.

...Imagine what a difference it would be if the bridge was removed from west 25th to East 6th or so, and replaced with intersections at west 9th, west 6th, west 3rd and east 9th. Concerns are congestion, and inconvenience to the relatively small numbers of drivers that actually travel the full span of the bridge. ... What I am asking is if the existing plans for the East Bank of the Flats can accommodate large amounts of traffic down Main Avenue to where traffic would meet the hypothetical new lift bridge. Pedestrians will have to deal with way more traffic at rush hour. The Shooters area on the West Bank would be impacted, too. good points I don 't not have the answers to your questions but I can try I would assume that most traffic into downtown would be diverted onto the Detroit Superior bridge, thru traffic would likely detour to the I90 Inner belt once the new bridges are built they will have an additional 25% capacity, for through Traffic. keep in mind the current traffic patterns are expected to change as the shore way is converted into a boulevard and its speed limit is reduced making it less attractive for users relative to a higher capacity I-90. In the end I'd expect a 4 lane lift bridge, with integrated pedestrian and biking facilities. issues to consider would be truck traffic being routed through the northern edge of the warehouse district, and environmental impacts bringing what was above, down to grade level.

no word on the bike racks? I talked with someone familiar with the Toyku trains an he say RTA's excuses are invalid. the trains are stainless steel they don't rust, and surely wont rust any ffaste rfrom a bike than they would from 21,000 passengers tracking salt into the trains. He has no idea where they put the plans for the Trains because they are there, all they have to do is look.

thus I feel it is imperative that RTA find a way to connect both the Blue and green line to a major interstate. the best location to do this is not Blue line to Chagrin highlands but the green line to Beachwood place, and even further out to SOM center and Mayfield roads. Both areas have tremendous amounts of the density 21st century transit needs density of jobs and people We seem to be caught in a time warp where the only trips people make are to work and back and ignoring the opportunity to capture more trips for shopping and playing, and those trip can include residents of the high rises surrounding beachwood place and East-gate, to downtown and Shaker Square, as well as the residents of shaker square and buckeye for shopping at golden gate and East gate, while providing a substantial reduction in reverse commute times. The key to future light rail expansion is choosing right car to replace the Bredas, that car is a one suitable for Mixed Traffic, AKA and streetcar (again) this reduces the cost of ROW and overall is less traumatic on the community.

have even seen a McDonalds drive thru, in an urban context with massing like the existing massing on west 25th? Jimmy Johns, Penn Station, or Five Guys would fit the area infinitely better.

327, I'm surprised to hear this from you after all the words you spent saying how new businesses that wanted to build along Euclid Avenue in Midtown should not because it wasn't the right fit for the neighborhood. You'd rather Midtown sit as empty lots until the perfect use came around but now you're fighting for a McDonalds? the interesting thing about McDonalds or most other Fast food businesses is that they in a technical sense require a market area of( X number of persons per Square mile). there is a natural inertia towards new construction of any new business, that gives the investor a bit more security, perfect example would be Chipolte in downtown, there has been enough of a market for it for some time but the investor needed a bit more assurance that the market was sound before they made a move (I.E. that the estimated market Area was sound and Growing) back to Ohio city and a mass market restaurant. first the market area for a non Drive Thru restaurant has to be very dense because Transportation costs are measured in time and unlike a destination restaurant that has only one location, McDonalds has thousands, and you are not going to convince people to go to a Ohio City location over one much easier to get to by car like Denision, or west 73rd. It just doesn't make sense right now to place a walk up location in OC right now, but if an between restaurant like Jimmy Johns, Penn Station, or Five Guys could be viable if the appropriate retail spaces become available. but no Walk up McDonalds until population density and neighborhood vibrancy increases substantially, I'd look to see a new Walk Up McDonalds in Downtown or UC well before one in Ohio City.

With ya'. The approaches on the viaducts leading to the Main Avenue Bridge are quite unattractive. It does not even connect until W 25th street. How would you run Main Avenue on a low level if the East Bank and Old River Road are already in place for the current developments? in the future there will be descion made to replace the Main avenue bridge, since route 2 will be a 35mph boulevard does it continue to make sense to spend 500-600 million dollars to replace the high level main avenue bridge which is the the longest bridge to cross the Cuyahoga river and the least used bridge to cross the river in the county. imagine what a difference it would be if the bridge was removed from west 25th to East 6th or so, and replaced with intersections at west 9th, west 6th, west 3rd and east 9th. concerns are congestion, and inconvenience to the relatively small numbers of drivers that actually travel the full span of the bridge. the benefit tothe warehouse district is by remving ramps you opens up acres of land for development and improve the quality of life there by reducing the noise and dust Associated with a freeway.

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I don't. I don't think Regional Rail should have stops, but in very few places, in Cuyahoga County. Instead of the stops KJP post, I feel like those should be Cleveland Rapid stops. Let the Lake County train stop in Euclid (for transfers to RTA services), University Circle and Downtown. look at other commuter rail systems and compare them to what KJP has proposed. I personally Don't think laketran will mind eliminating their downtown commuter service to help pay for this. so what you propose is to have a train that stops at an RTA station and have people transfer to a RTA train to finish the voyage. Nevermind the costs that Laketran would incur to operate and Store those trains. Now if you don't think that It should have so many stops, you may have a point especially if these are going to be DMUs which accelerates far slower than electric trains like the redline.

Love it or hate it, I'm sure the bulkhead will be reconstructed as part of the boardwalk going up. i know what you mean strap, but its much more raw than gritty and it needs to go. this is going to take a lot of work if the future plans to build closer to the riverfront come to pass. actually rebuilding the bulkheads is my fav part of the feb project because it could allow for a boardwalk and could help support construction nearer to the water. Agree. The Flats still need a major overhaul of infrastructure. In connection, there are still a plethora of aesthetic barriers to overcome for the hood to reach its potential imho. What would be a game changer would be a low-level bridge from Main ave on the east bank to Main ave on the west bank. to create a pedestrian friendly way to connect the west bank to Downtown, when you look at the residential growth on the west bank it is focused where the best access to downtown is. the ability to Walk from those west bank parking lots directly to the East bank development and ware house district, will open up those parking lots for development. As it stands now the west bank is littered with parking lots because it is isolated from the downtown and the east bank, and its transit connections.

They need to keep throwing this thing on the ballot until it passes. I have zero confidence in either party, but particular the Republicans because they stand to lose so much, to get it right. On another note, I am a bit concerned about the implications of the Voter Rights' Act. It's my vague understanding that the Act actually drives some of this gerrymandering because the VRA requires a certain number of a minority-majority House districts in states with large percentages of minorities...or something along those lines. that would create one minority majority district. the thing is , it doesn't have to be 90-100 percent black nor 100 percent democratic to meet this objective. you could blend this district in with Geauqa county and Still have a minority majority district.

There is way to do this. basically mixing in the rural districts with the urban districts. I can forsee a new and improved issue 2 on the ballot next year, the Outragouesneess of republican gerrymandering, will garnder more attention and more money in the future.

the real time savings is the reapportionment of bus Stops, i.e. removing and relocate some bus stops.

A satisfying theory, I'm sure, but in order to be able to gerrymander for federal races, you've got to be able to win at the state level. The Ohio Apportionment Board is always composed of one Republican chosen by the General Assembly, one Democrat chosen by the General Assembly, the governor, the secretary of state, and the state auditor. In other words, whoever wins two out of the three elected positions on that list, since the automatic Republican and Democratic representative balance each other out. There's no gerrymandering in statewide elections. You either win or lose the entire state. You can't say that the GOP would be a regional fringe party without gerrymandering when they're winning the un-gerrymandered elections as well. I get it you are a lawyer. you were right about the issue being too long on the ballot, I give you that. what you are saying has no bearing on the truth, which is to take poltiics out of redistricting. 28% of ohioans are registered independent, how does a system that rewards either party at the expense of the other help Ohio or the country. Great article in the plain dealer about the Results of Redistricting http://www.cleveland.com/open/index.ssf/2012/11/in_evenly_split_ohio_redistric.html So while you continue to pontificate of the legaleze of the debate the will of the people is being obstruted, for political gain. 48% of ohio voters voted for a democrat canidate for US House of Represeantives. yet 25% of house seats are democrats. right is right and wrong is wrong.

Seems to me you lost the right to bitch about this project when you moved away. Can't you just be happy that you've improved your life and ours by moving without having to instruct us as to the error of our ways for designing the neighborhood how we want it? That's what the public meeting was about, and the people have spoken. You may be confusing this project with the West Shoreway, but that's another project for another thread. It is completely unrelated to the Enhance Clifton project. Nothing on Clifton is changing traffic-wise except the installation of a median in Cleveland. Got bad news for ya -- the city of Cleveland also just installed a median on Lake Avenue just west of West Boulevard. It's a short one, but it's intended to calm traffic coming off the Shoreway on to Lake at freeway speeds. It appears to be having the intended effect. I'm sure neighborhoods residents, especially those walking and riding their bikes to Edgewater Park are happy for this. A few car potatoes might not like it, but they're just passing through with their cars strapped to their ever-larger asses. I believe that Detroit is getting a bike lane from Lakewood the whole way to Downtown. I'm too lazy too look up a citation. I was at a staff meeting at the City Planning Commission when the plans for the bike lane on Detroit were laid out in front of us. It will happen.' car potatoes, ha ha. if you don't live there why do you care? you make it seem as if they are spending your money. so concerned about someone's trip to work, yet have no formal traffic planning experience, yet offer your opinion on it anyway. the flexibility come not from the design of a single road but from the exsistance a Street Grid that allows people to have flexbility in the routes thay take. but as have been said before this will not change the capasity of Clifton Blvd.

Ohio statewide voted President 50% 48% Democrat won Senate 50% 45% Democrat won but at the congressional race level the OHIO Delegation will be 12 Republicans and 4 Democrats Or 75% Republican representation in the US House of Representatives If you look deeper at the numbers you will see that of the 4 districts won by Democrats 3 were contested and the average margin of victory was 43 points the average democrat won 70% of the electorate in their district for the GOP the average margin of victory for the 11 contested Seats was 18 points, the average Republicans won only 58% of the electorate. more telling is if you averaged the results of all Contested races Democrats won 48% of all house votes and the Republicans won 52% of those votes. The effect of Gerrymandering is to dilute the opposition Vote by making overwhelmingly democratic or republican districts which in our case to make 4 70% Democratic districts, and 12 56% Republican Districts. The question is how can 48% of all ohians that voted in house races voted Democratic but that only resulted in 25% of all house seats. is this fair?

awesome system.

true I was talking about buses overall.

that was 9 minutes of a 32 minute route. the study has shown that buses spend alot a time at lights but they spend far more time loading and unloading, especially if there are alot of people paying cash to get on the bus, feeding 5 singles into a fare box to get an all Day pass, takes alot time.

I disagree that loading and unloading is the main problem. Even at the busiest stops, it takes only 15-20 seconds to load and unload passengers. But most traffic lights stop the bus for anywhere from 30 seconds to over a minute. Also, I thought the busses were run every 5 minutes at rush hour, not 3? Regardless, even at 3 minutes, you should be able to have effective signal prioritization. 3 things: 1 The Heathline is scheduled to run at 7 minute headway throughout the day. But the number of buses need to meet the expectation of the Volume of traffic forces RTA into more frequent departures from downtown and Windermere. This creates the bunching, unscheduled buses allow flexiblity to respond to the peaks and troughs of the day without altering the schedule. see here: http://www.riderta.com/schedules/rt65wk.html 2 The time it takes to load and unload increase with the number of people on the bus. crowding especially around the door from standees increases the time it takes to load and unload. more doors helps the problem and is the reason why sbway systems from new york to London have alot of doors per car. 3 signal preemption. i have studied the effect of traffic signals on the health line for All aboard Ohio. for a midday the average delay for a Healthline bus at a light is 9 minutes most that delay happens in the section of the route from Stokes Blvd to Windermere, there isn't any signal prioritization with in most of this corridor, and there is a hell of alot of traffic in University Circle. signal preemption is not a panacea, because unlike a completely isolated system like the Redline you can never have complete control over traffic congestion, and the best way to deal with a stoplight is to remove it thus when the traffic signal warrant study is completed in east cleveland, RTA will save alot of money becuase it removes 30-50% of the lights on Euclid Ave. Preemption works best when you do not have large olume of cross traffic which can delay the Cycling of the light.