Everything posted by BigDipper 80
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Ohio Census / Population Trends & Lists
I think one of the most important things to keep in mind with population numbers (and I think folks on this forum are trying to put the whole picture together here) is that an absolute number based on a city's borders isn't completely meaningful on its own. It's like how a median and an average tell you two completely different things but you really need both of them to get a good understanding of whatever data you're looking at. When I think about population changes, I try to picture things on the micro (neighborhood), the municipality, and the regional (CSA, etc) level. All three can tell you completely different stories, but they provide a better perspective than simply trying to compare cities of comparable areas or of comparable populations. As for Lousiville, the city pre-consolidation was losing population at a steady pace since 1970, and it would be interesting to see if the recent gains in population have come from new development in the outlying parts of the city-county or from redevelopment in some of the hotter neighborhoods in "old Louisville" (not the neighborhood, but the pre-consolidation borders), or some combination of both. Will the sprawl in the city-county eventually slow to the point where it can't keep up with the loss of population in the pre-consolidation region? At that point you have the same regional stagnant-and-shrinking effect that you see across Greater Cleveland, and it'll be interesting to see how cities like Louisville and Indy manage that type of change.
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Riding The Cardinal -- Amtrak from Cincinnati to Baltimore
Took the trip from CIN to BAL back in January. I had the worst headcold which made the trip pretty miserable, but I have to admit that traveling along the New River is beautiful. I actually took the train out and flew back from BWI to Dayton a week later. The plane ticket was actually a bit cheaper than the one-way Amtrak ticket, but it meant flying from Baltimore to Atlanta with a three hour layover. The Baltimore light rail was dead when we rode it. That whole stretch of Howard Street that it runs on is almost completely devoid of businesses. When I went back up to Penn Station to catch a MARC train to Washington, I just took one of the free circulator buses from the Inner Harbor up Charles Street. I rode all of the circulator lines during the week I was there and they were always packed - much more so than the light rail or the subway.
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Cincinnati Streetcar / The Connector News
Just saw the last streetcar heading south on I-71 at I-76, couldn't get a photo though. That puts its arrival in Cincy around... 7:00 or so?
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Cincinnati: Walnut Hills / East Walnut Hills: Development and News
Can't say that I'm too impressed by those renderings.
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Pittsburgh: Downtown - Part 2
PGH has such a dense, grand downtown. Perhaps only Detroit approaches it for still holding on to that "imperial" feeling that so many Midwestern cities strove for. Here's hoping it keeps cleaning up and gets even more active.
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Cedar Point
BigDipper 80 replied to buildingcincinnati's post in a topic in Restaurants, Local Events, & EntertainmentCedar Point ferryboat service returning to Sandusky http://www.sanduskyregister.com/Business/2016/04/28/Cedar-Point-ferryboat-service-returning-to-Sandusky.html?ci=breaking&lp=1
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Toledo: Historic Photos
Thanks for this, and the other (far more depressing) thread of Uptown Toledo. After your comment in the Marina District thread the other night, I had interest in finding out more about Uptown but didn't know where to start, so these threads were posted just at the right time.
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Dayton: Random Photos
It's in St. Anne's Hill, I believe. Ohio needs more Arts and Crafts homes.
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Dayton: Random Photos
ColDayMan gave me an extensive tour of Dayton on Saturday, and although the... weather (Lord almighty Saturday's weather was weird)... ruined the opportunity to get a lot of photos, I still managed to squeeze in a few shots.
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Take a trip up the Hudson River
It looks like Ohio, but with better rail accessibility!
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Cincinnati Streetcar / The Connector News
It's been pretty amazing to watch the shift in attitude of students over my past five years at UC. People hardly ever wanted to even leave Calhoun Street, and this was when USquare was still a tailgate lot. No one would want to leave campus, and friends' parents would always warn about how we were guaranteed to get mugged. The only way I was able to get my friend to walk from Fountain Square to Findlay Market was by conveniently forgetting to mention that we were actually in OTR, because as a lifelong Cincinnatian she had no idea what OTR was actually like. And to think that back then Washington Park was still a hole in the ground! I can't imagine an entire generation of concertgoers only ever seeing the backside of Music Hall when they went to the CSO because they wouldn't dare cross Central Parkway. Everyone I talk to really wants the streetcar to come to Uptown. People have either experienced good transit in other cities and want to see it work here in Cincinnati, or they just see it as an easier way to get down to Vine Street. Either way, there's definitely been a shift and it's been truly incredible to watch such dramatic changes. Now if we can get people to stop driving three blocks and either walk or take the streetcar between places :wink:...
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Cincinnati: Clifton: Development and News
The balcony on the apartment building on Middleton at Ludlow has collapsed.
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Ridiculous Density
Fittingly, The Atlantic just published an article about Hong Kong's ridiculous density: http://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2016/03/the-dizzying-cityscape-of-hong-kong/472575/
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Spur of the moment trip to Cincy?
If you're into bourbon, there's also the Old Kentucky Bourbon Bar in Covington and The Littlefield up in Northside. OKBB is run by Molly Wellman, who also owns Japps.
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Spur of the moment trip to Cincy?
If you end up going out that way, definitely go check out the Painted Ladies along Tusculum Avenue.
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Spur of the moment trip to Cincy?
Rhinegeist and Moerlein both have taprooms in OTR and they're both really cool hangout spaces. I don't think Mt Adams has any breweries. As for steakhouses, I'd say the general consensus is that Jeff Ruby's Precinct in Columbia-Tusculum is considered the "best" although I haven't been there yet. There is also a Jeff Ruby's downtown as well.
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Cincinnati Streetcar / The Connector News
Actually, the one time I did get to see the streetcars out and about they were doing some braking tests on Race. I filmed this back in December, but I just now bothered to upload it to Youtube:
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Cincinnati Streetcar / The Connector News
Cleveland has a few Texas turnarounds on I-90 on the east side between the frontage roads. Back to the streetcar - how often have they been taking them out for test drives? I've been going downtown fairly frequently with the hopes of catching them but I haven't lucked out since December.
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Cincinnati: Brent Spence Bridge
I feel like they could probably make the interchange even less space-consuming with a better redesign of it. I think direct connections to the Clay Wade Bailey Bridge would be hugely beneficial, so that one could head north over the Bailey and get on 75 at the other end and vice versa. This would relieve a lot of traffic from the horrible 4th street BSB ramp in Covington. They really should have designed I-75 to run west of the rail yard south of the Western Hills Viaduct and had it cross the river at Ludlow KY. Politics of course left us with this much more difficult stretch of road.
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Cincinnati: Brent Spence Bridge
The scary thing is, the rebuilt 71/75 interchange is actually proposed to be maybe a half block narrower than the one that's currently there if you look closely at the renderings. They squished some of the ramps tighter together and there is a bit more room on the Central Avenue side of the spaghetti bowl.
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Cincinnati: Brent Spence Bridge
^I'm just trying to fully wrap my head around your suggestion Jake... Are you saying "build a set of express lanes from I-74, over a new bridge, and up the hill"? Or are you suggesting a different bypass that crosses the river further west?
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Dayton - Montgomery County Merger Discussion
Mods can move this if there's a better spot for it, but I'm curious on what peoples' thoughts are on this/how much has changed since the original proposal?... Charter would radically change city, county government By Cornelius Frolik - Staff Writer A group of local community leaders on Thursday unveiled the details of a much-anticipated charter proposal to merge the city of Dayton and Montgomery County governments. The plan, developed over six months by a committee with the nonprofit group Dayton Together, would create a metro government overseen by an elected council and a manager appointed by council members. The rest is at http://www.mydaytondailynews.com/news/news/charter-would-radically-change-city-county-governm/nqSZg/
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Cincinnati: I-71 Improvements / Uptown Access Project (MLK Interchange)
^That's correct. It's so there's no weaving where the MLK southbound on-ramp dumps traffic onto 71, which happens to be right where the current off-ramp at Taft splits off. EDIT: taestell beat me to it!
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Cincinnati: I-71 Improvements / Uptown Access Project (MLK Interchange)
^I've always been bothered by this. Interchanges in tight urban areas should be kept compact, but of course that impedes the flow of traffic and can hurt sightlines so ODOT doesn't care. Useless patches of grass along an urban interstate are just that - they don't really add anything to the driving experience and the public doesn't have access to them, so it's just more money to waste on maintenance.
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Cincinnati: Restaurant News & Info
BigDipper 80 replied to The_Cincinnati_Kid's post in a topic in Restaurants, Local Events, & EntertainmentCane's is basically the only fast food that anyone around UC talks about, and there had been rumors flying around for so long that it seemed inevitable for one to eventually open. It'll make a killing, judging by the endless throngs at the OSU one.