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I agree with the sentiment about the Kyoto bus network, it seemed to work fairly well there (then again, every mode of transportation I used in Japan worked really well). If I remember correctly, you boarded through the rear doors and paid when you exited the front of the bus, which also seemed to help with the efficiency.

Can we please get a grocery store as part of this so that I can stop doing all my shopping in Beavercreek? I really would like to see an "original design for Oakley Station" type project here, or heck just a bunch of new student housing in an expanded street grid, but I really hope that Dayton will be proactive enough to avoid a "current Oakley Station" situation here.

Can't wait to see the Enquirer headline about this that says "Streetcar slows down Traffic on Downtown Streets".

Why does Cleveland still have this but SW Ohio doesn't? Cincinnati always seems to be under smog warnings in the summer. Not that the test is really necessary any more, especially for new cars - all they do is plug their little computer into the car and download the emissions data.

Good on these Strongsville residents for opposing this, but it's sad how these same arguments simply aren't raised within the City of Cleveland when it comes to building/modifying highways in heavily populated areas.

Who needs streetcars when you can hop on the trolley and hitch a ride to Dick's Last Resort!

The Cleveland Clinic Day at SeaWorld was always my favorite day of summer growing up. It was the weirdest place to think of building a SeaWorld, but I love telling people in southwest Ohio that Shamu used to have a summer home in Cleveland and getting a bunch of strange looks from them. I only went to the park as a Six Flags in 2000 and 2003, but they grew that park way too fast to try and compete with Cedar Point. And Cedar Fair just did a horrible job from a PR perspective when they closed the park. Left a sour taste in a lot of peoples's mouths, even though in hindsight it was expected. I wish I had gotten one more ride on the Big Dipper. I also wish they would just move its trains to Cedar Point to run on Blue Streak but that'll never happen. It's sad that the only amusement park Cleveland has left is Memphis, but at least they have the world's oldest steel roller coaster at that place!

But that new Meijer is really going to put Aurora in the national spotlight! :roll: I'm still bitter about this whole saga, if my username is any indication. I can't help but wonder if Matt Ouimet would have handled it differently if he had been in charge of Cedar Fair at the time, but alas, that wasn't the case.

Thought this was a Pokemon themed restaurant for about half a second.

Every one of those crosswalks around Calhoun/McMillan should have flashing yield signs and some sort of speed bump or Belgian block strips or something in the road to slow cars down. Those little yield bollards plopped in the crosswalk are somewhat effective too.

My current 'hood sure is a little bit weird development-wise, isn't it? A couple of these have closed or have been demolished in the past couple of years. My building is all one bedrooms and studios, it makes you wonder why all the bachelors were flocking to Grafton Hill a half-century-plus ago!

Red Canyon caught me totally off guard when I was out west back in May. Totally unexpected. But really everything in southern Utah is unexpected. The stretch of I-15 along the Virgin River through Arizona is spectacular, yet another thing I had no idea existed.

My gut instinct was to hate the name (I'm just sorta "meh" to it now), but if NYC has Citi Bike, I guess I can live with this.

The one thread you post on here every three decades just absolutely puts everyone else's photo threads to shame. In-freaking-credible work, as always.

What's that infill building on the far left of the rendering? Is it just hypothetical? I don't remember seeing anything proposed for that lot.

I still struggle to process how quickly OTR is changing. I've been getting down there about once a month and even with that somewhat-high frequency I can't keep up with all of the new development. It's completely unreal. Amazing photos - I've been loving these drone shots and the fish-eye shots are great too.

^Fair. There's always more to it, and I oversimplified it.

Even Akron got $5 million to construct a "downtown promenade". Cranley's administration keeps throwing away the opportunity to get some free money on projects that don't even warrant existing, much less deserve TIGER funding. No one is fighting for the Delicate Flowers Bridge excet him.

Most of Rhinegeist's beers are on the moderately to very hoppy side. Cougar, Gramps and Uncle are all much "tamer". I'm not a big fan of hops so I usually stick to their Cougar.

I found the anthem of suburban Cincinnati:

This is an absolutely fascinating look at some of these old expressway plans. Pre-Interstate freeways always have so many more quirks and oddities that make them more interesting than stuff built later. That massive traffic circle is one of my favorite remnants from that era - I wonder why ODOT never reconfigured that exit lane? I originally dug up this thread because I was looking for some insight as to where Steve Whalen Boulevard was actually supposed to connect through to. With the size of its original interchange, I can only assume that there were plans to build a north-south expressway on the near east side.

All the townships already assume that they're part of Cincinnati because they don't understand how townships work and it says Cincinnati on their mail, so they might as well get annexed. On the other hand though, do we really want the people of Delhi and Green and Anderson having the ability to actually influence Cincinnati's politics?

Honestly my favorite thing so far has been that all of the promotional material is just from the NoLimits video game. They didn't even get someone to make real renderings for the ride :laugh:.

It's happening again in Grandview Heights/5XNW. But the apartments are much newer than most of the houses. This is a big reason why I think Clifton is one of the most successful neighborhoods in the city. Lots of housing options allows for lots of income diversity all living side by side, and having big apartment blocks scattered among the huge mansions not only helps break up the lots and allow all these different people to live in close proximity, but it also helps bump up the population density enough to make Ludlow Avenue as effective of an NBD as it is. If Clifton were all grand mansions with no apartments or duplex homes, I can't imagine it being as effective or as walkable of a neighborhood as it is, even with UC being so close.

Hough would benefit greatly from the Clinic opening up to the neighborhood more, and the development of a proper business district, as has kind of been intimated. I think we'll see Glenville spillover before we see any major headways in Hough. Along Rockefeller Park is probably the best place to start, but convincing the neighborhood that there is intrinsic value to being in a critical urban location between the region's two largest employment centers is actually a good thing is probably the most important step to take. Hough's a great opportunity for the residents of the neighborhood to really take ownership of the place and its history and shape it into something good without the sinister hand of "gentrification" creeping into the mix.