kjbrill

I find it ironical we are only a week removed from a vote which could have stopped the streetcar completely. If two council members would not have changed their mind it would have been stopped. Several people, while glad to see the downtown loop completed have expressed they still have concerns how it is going to be paid for, particularly the opeating costs the city is committed to for 25 years. Others are in such euphoria they are immediately clamoring to begin construction of the uptown segment. They also want to jump in and start talking of eastern corridor, etc construction, saying the time is hot. Must not have seen the same fight I did. These are about as rediculous as Cranley saying he had a mandate to stop it. Going ahead on the slimest of margins is not exactly a green light to start expanding what is not even completed, not by a long shot.

Horseshoe Casino is a much different type of operation, not just video slots which is pretty much all that will be at the two racinos. It will be interesting so see how the replacement for River Downs (Belterra Park) holds up also against the Horseshoe.

There is a very simple reason why young people are driving less, They Simpley Can't Afford It. Invent any other reasons you desire, but that is the main one. The jobs they can get are lucky to hold down the payments on a used car, let alone a new one. Have they suddenly become addicted to a carless socieity? No, what they have become addicted to is being broke most of the time.

Oh yes, it is a huge problem, being brought to us by a cycling advocate? I admit with all of the right turn signals combined with the opposing direction left turn, there is little time for a pedestrian to cross a street. At the same time, most of the intersections I travel through have few to none pedestrians crossing. Perhaps there needs to be a person push button activated walk light which stops traffic in all directions. This I can aqree with. But just a blanket statement pedestrians are being placed in jeopardy, just another anti-car position taken by the vast minority.

And that is exactly why you dream of public works projects which are not becoming reality. The people in the drivers seat are not about to alienate the mass public by lobbying to spend money on transit projects the majority do not support. It takes more than some lobbying by a relatively few urban advocates to make things happen in this or any other state. At least I recognize KJP knows this is not an easily won battle. Even with all of his enthusiasm and number of postings on this forum, he recognizes it is an uphill battle. For that I give him credit. I may not agree with him, but I give him credit for fighting the battle.

My opinion is the Dayton Raceway and Racino it just too close to the relocated Lebanon Raceway (Miami Valley Gaming) located down I-75 at the Monroe exit. These people are just going to be cutting each other's throats.

That is just too simplistic an approach. If you are a developer, you are responsible for the contracts you enter into. If you are so inept at evaluating the costs, then you should be left holding the bill. Come on, something was rotten here from the get-go and still noone is being held to task for it.

Juries simply vote on the evidence presented, and I believe are mostly objective. So the government simply did not put together enough of a convincing case. But someone should still be held responsible for the money which seemed to just disappear.

You can't force people to recognize their own ignorance, or to experience their entire city and gain a greater awareness of it. Some people just like to be afraid or want everything to be the same. That's their right. And to enjoy that right, they can stay in their suburban settings locked in their houses and cars. But don't prevent those of us who love cities from designing them and enjoying them the way we want to. It's awfully oppressive for suburbanites to deny us our pursuit of happiness. The only thing I object to is that the urbanists in their pursuit of happiness want to deny all of us suburbanities our own pursuit of happiness. Far as I am concerned, let the greater majority in numbers prevail.

Yes, and if it did not go to to the people entitled to it by their claims of work performed, that is where the fraud comes in. Many of the contractors filed suits over not being paid. As you said, the money had to go somewhere. That is where the claims of fraud come in. But our courts have ruled no fraud, so here we are.

Don't quite know where the bicycle advocates are coming from. Do you have a license on your bike to grant you the privilege to travel on public thoroughfares? If not, what grants you the explicit right to travel there? What are you contributing to maintaining the cost of the infrastructure? I know in some of the oft maligned suburban areas, a portion of the local income tax is apportioned to support bike baths. Seems like the larger percentage of the population supports this. But it this true in the City?

Sounds a little outstetched to me. Not saying it is wrong. But do you have any data to back these accusations up? Sounds like a perfect case of personal liability to me unless you can back this up. I would be a little cautious.

Come on --- let's do the math here. CVG has ~4,000,000 enplanements a year. Divide by 365, roughly 11,000 enplanements a day. Enplanements are only people boarding a plane. So let's multiply by 2, that's 22,000 people either walking onto or off of an airplane at CVG each day. If 75% of those people are O&D (non-connecting), that works to 16,500 O&D passengers per day. Those 16,500 passengers don't travel to CVG via 16,500 different vehicles. Let's assume it only takes 11,000 vehicles (as some people are traveling together) to get them to CVG. Of those 11,000 vehicles, not all of them originate from/travel to Ohio. Let's say only 75% do (probably a high estimate). Now we're at 8,250 vehicles going to and from CVG. Of those 8,250 vehicles, not all will use the Brent Spence to cross the Ohio River. For many west-siders (Ross, Harrison, Miamitown, etc), it's best to come around 275. The ferry is also a west-side option. There are multiple other downtown bridges, most notably I-471. Folks from Anderson Township, Milford, Clermont County and the like will use 275 from the east. Let's say only 50% (again, probably a high estimate) transit across the Brent Spence. Now we are at 4,125 vehicles that use the Brent Spence daily to utilize CVG. The Brent Spence has 140,000 vehicles use it daily. AT MOST, CVG is responsible for 3% of the Brent Spence's total traffic. I like your analysis and believe the math. The amount of traffic across the Brent Spence either originating in or terminating in Ohio on a daily basis between CVG is miniscule. That is CVG's major problem, not enough passengers originate from or terminate in Cincinnati. But to say it is a major impact on the Brent Spence, it simply is not.

I am just glad the majority of council voted to continue the streetcar. At least this indicates we have several people on council with some brains and an appreciation of what the citizens desire.

I give up trying to rationalize anything Cranley does. I just hope Cincy can move forward in spite of him. At least he has enough brains to know when he was licked and stepped back. Some people never realize that.

West Chester: 35 square miles Liberty Township: 28 square miles Mason: 19 square miles Total: 82 square miles Cincinnati: 79 square miles So an area larger than the city of Cincinnati contains a third of its population. That, sir, is the definition of sprawl. To you it may be the definition of sprawl. To me it is the definition of a great place to live. I just don't care to be crammed into a 18th century tenament district with walkups and shared bathrooms just because somebody declares it historical. The fact is that population will have a lot to say as to the future of Cincinnati. Just take a look at the average family income. As they say, money speaks.

Would you care to identify that reason? I started a separate thread on this subject, because I believe an injustice has been done here.

If Matt Daniels is not guilty of bank fraud in the Kenwood Towne Center Development, then who is? Millions of dollars just kind of disappeared in that development. Somebody has to be guilty. Contractors got shafted and not paid. Innocent workers lost what they worked for. Seems like our government is incapable of assigning blame and demanding restitution.

It is the type of criminal complaint this type of individual needs to be charged with and convicted of. Mainly because it affects so many peoples lives. This projet has affected how many people? It was stopped in midstream which affected how many people who were working on it? It affected many people in their everday lives since their income just plained stopped. I hope the courts find him responsiblle and basically fine him enough they take not only all of his assets but find it a ciminal offense which puts him away in the pen for a number of years.

In case you haven't noticed, West Chester and Liberty townships combined are equal to about 25% of the residential population of Cincinnati. And if you add in Mason you have over 30% of the population of Cincinnati. I would hardly call this just sprawl. I would call it a formidable economic force in Cincinnati.

I would love to see the city charter vote pass just to put Cranley in between a rock and a hard place. Let's see him react to a vote basically saying OK dumm ass you wouldn't agree to a reasonable solution, how do you like this one?

Wow, you're starting to bring up some big cultural issues that I think are beyond the scope of this thread. They may be signficant cultural issues, but ones I believe need to be discussed. If not here then where? Since West Chester and Liberty townships are right in the thick of it, I don't see anything wrong with discussing it here. Tell me two other places in the entire Cincy Metro which are more involved in this subject. Oh yes, I can name one - Mason.

Butler Co. is just starting to feel its oats. They have many of the newest residential developments in the entire area, and some great schools. They are a very desirable place to live and raise a family. Notice I put the emphasis on family. That is what the northern suburbs have going for them - raising families. Those who want to not bear children and desire an urban existence can gravitate to the City. But I strongly believe this is the minority. The attraction to raising a family is still the strongest reason for married couples to exist in this country. Witrhout this family life orientation, we are in big trouble.

I do have a point to make. The Cincinnati streetcar website, which I have a link to, apparently does not have anyone with the guts to report to the public what is going on. Their last posted update is 11/22/13, a good 3 weeks ago. Why don't they at least acknowledge the streetcar construction has been halted? They don't have to embellish on it, but at least square up with the people.

My problerm with the Racino and Racetrack is that they are building too many of them. There is one being built in the Dayton area right? Again they moved a racing license from somewhere else in the state? There is only so much gambling money to go around. These racinos will kill each other along with the actual casinos. The first thing which will happen is the restaurants will begin to close due to lask of patrons. In a few years they will begin to look like Tr-County Mall - desolate.