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the other images are of floor plans. try using http://www.cutlerhomes.com and do a residential search in Cleveland. It should bring back a link where you can view the other images. I think that howardhanna also has the links without registering. EDIT: here are a couple (idk if links will work long term):

have any of the double decker buses arrive on ohio routes yet? i haven't seen any on CLE.

there was a graphic i think a while back that showed the floor heights and a proposed re-use. maybe i saw this at ingenuity, as it isn't posted in this thread anywhere. idk. but I think that metrocity is close to guessing that the plates might be spaces 10' apart, which from a residential perspective should be plenty of space to work with. does anyone else remember the graphic i'm talking about or have access to it? edit: this wasn't exactly what i was looking for, but it will do. i should have started with google... from this shot, i'd say there is plenty of space:

has anyone seen a number released by the GLSC on how many KWH have been produced to date by the turbine? also, why isn't this think lit up at night? i would have thought some energy efficient lighting would have been part of the art installation. just a couple of orange, red or blue lights shining upward onto the mast would have a nice effect, imo.

it also seems that some of the floors could be cut open, with staircases and more space. doing this and adding some balconies would make this place usable. Also, referencing MayDay's photo from earlier in this thread, it seems crazy that they were able to keep the sidewalk open during the original construction, but the County is not insisting that the sidewalk remain open now while removing the asbestos. In the photos it looks like the trailers are placed on top of the sidewalk protection. It just seems like very low expectation on the County's part (and the City as well, for allowing this to happen). This whole area is a mess.

i'm no fan of wal-marts in general, but i strolled through this one yesterday and was pretty impressed. it certainly raises the bar in some areas and provides a long missing one-stop shopping experience for those in the area. i've never seen so many security cameras though, and the place doesn't seem to have any self check outs.

^ and you could make it an express car as well, with no stops between the airport and downtown. it could use the stub track in towercity. this could have some potential at certain times of the day, but would definately need some marketing to figure out.

I just think to get any expansion of service, you're going to have to put together a good pitch with defined service expansion times, who is using it, and who is paying for it. RTA will probably cut more service this fall from underperforming routes during the next budget cycle. IMO, to get this service running the supporters have to get by whatever off the cuff evidence that eastsiders will use the service (becuase they didn't when the service previously existed and the flats were booming), and come forward with a viable plan and monetary support to expand service. otherwise, imo, the plea will fall on deaf ears. Maybe CSU or Case can do a ridership study?

I'm not sure if it was part of this program or not, but some of the institutions will ask you for a zip code when you purchase tickets. The problem I ran into, was that they couldn't handle international visitors who I have shown these attractions to, and ended up just using a cleveland zip code for the transaction. It would be a shame if they weren't accurately logging the international visitors that come to the region.

make it into the "cuyahoga county tech incubator", similar to what the hanna building has created, to what youngstown and akron are doing on a smaller scale.

i think some late night fri-sat service between memorial day and labor day makes sense, especially if RTA can get a sponsor for this late night service. Adding 2 hours of trains, maybe at half hour headways should be possible and not that expensive. that being said, i don't see RTA voluntarily reinstating this service unless the community, MADD, some other partners come forward with $$$ to cover the added costs. i know that ridership was low on the old service, which was one of the reasons it was cut in the first place. RTA doesn't seem to be cutting service on routes that have solid ridership numbers. so, although the logic of running late night service makes some sense, historically, it wasn't used as a substitute for driving/cabs by "enough" people to make sense within the RTA priority scheme. that's why a sponsor who cared about the cause or the service could probably make it happen again, even if only 20 people rode the trains.

Really? I've been in my crib for a while and no intention on selling this experiment! Or do you mean most new homeowners - those that have purchased within the last 5-7 years? but, most of the mortgages i have seen have the interest payments are heavily weighted toward the earlier years anyway. so, if you live there 5 years and your payments are 1000/month, chances are the interest payment is the big chunk, maybe 800/month, and you are only paying 200 in principal, or less. i just don't think many people actually look at the total cost of ownership, whether it is 2 years, 5 years or 30 years. i think a lot of people think, i bought the house for 150,000 and i sold it 2 years later for 170,000, so i made 20,000. imo, that is rarely the case.

5 dollars a gallon of gas. and/or parking downtown above $10 a day.

i would suggest not looking at a house purchase as an investment, per se, but as a living expense. if you find a place for 1000/month that you love and it is a rental, rent it for a while. if you find a place to buy that is 1000/month and you love it, then do that. there are obviously more costs associated with getting into and out of a house, but i think the recent run up of property appreciation has many people thinking of owning as an investment. what people don't seem to grasp is that your 150,000 house ends up costing 300,000 in interest alone over 30 years, before property taxes, maintenance, insurance, water/sewer/trash and all sorts of other expenses that you don't usually pay when renting. from a living perspective, in downtown cleveland especially, i think it is hard to rent a place that has certain living features - wood floors, balconies, fire place. imo, you almost have to buy if you want those amenities, even if it means you break even (or less) if you have to or want to sell within a short time frame.

it seems that part of the problem is that these airport cabs can't pick up fares back to the airport, so they are pricing that into the equation. i think they should be able to work out a system where some of the cabs could wait at designated stands for traffic back to the airport, not exclusively, but closer to the current metered rate in both directions seems to work out better for everyone than $44 for a round trip.

i thought the post was referring to the law firm that wolstein is using for his real estate activities, namely Baker, whose lease is up.

apparently there is wording in the agreement that the first 500 Cleveland Clinic jobs are exempt from any revenue sharing. does anyone have the actual wording of the agreement? is there a link someplace?

the closest rail stop might be w25, but tremont is well served by the 81 and the circulator. the 81 even starts and stops downtown. she should have told him to use www.riderta.com and the trip planner (from the library if need be) or the stop in the visitors center on public square.

i don't think he ever officially lived there. there were rumors that he was taking one of the penthouses. now he may have bought one, but i'm pretty sure he isn't in the building. as of now, i think he still has a place at Quay 55, a place in Sharon Center in Medina County, and is building his new house in Bath.

it wouldn't surprise me if "politics" or different relationships didn't play a large role. Some of the developers may not have returned calls or provided information b/c that's how they operate, or they have a specific problem with the origanization or its people. I'd hope this isn't the case, but, there seem to be quite a few diverging views and approaches in the Cleveland area.

now that the proposed townhomes on the southern edge of scranton have been scrapped, it seems that this portion could be open to houseboats again. there used to be a couple down there, leasing space from landowner. i don't know what agreements they had with city/feds to be on the water, but they were there. it also seems that some of the marinas could support permanent houseboats, but maybe the locations of the marinas aren't perfect for living, idk.

my understanding is that jackson wants to get officers back on the streets ASAP, and he is ultimately willing to hire more officers to achieve this goal. however, in the near term, since there is not a current class of recruits, a quick way to do this is to move airport officers, and then to back staff the airport through private means (using existing off duty officers). i have understood the airport plan to be more of a stop gap until more officers can be added to the city police force. in the meantime, he seems to feel that the 45 officers can do more good on the streets.

I'd like to see RTA adopt and post online, an "environmental scorecard" that actually quantifies how the RTA fleet, from electric rail, clean diesel, cng, etc. breaks down emissions wise. For instance, in theory each of the 1993 and 1994 buses that are replaced by a 2007 model should be much cleaner, and maybe more efficient. how does bus emissions compare to the electric needed to run the trains? what is RTA's individual footprint? a station by station breakdown of energy use, or energy saved, etc. I was kind of disappointed that the new station art at one of the station redesigns was emphasizing artwork that had something like 10, 150 watt lightbulbs each (as opposed to a fiber optic cable, or LEDs, or something similar).

does anyone know what happened to plans for the old NY Spaghetti House on east 9th? they were working on it for a while, but i haven't seen anything in months. is this project dead?

idk if i can describe it accurately, but i will try. in california, colorado, florida, texas and a number of other states, the cities have adopted what i consider very advanced traffic lights, with multiple loop detecters buried in the concrete, sometime going back a 1/2 mile from an intersection. these loop sensors actually activate the traffic light and can determine where there is traffic volume. so for instance, if one car is waiting at a light and the sensors determine that there is no traffic close to the intersection in the opposite direction, the light will cycle for literally 5 or 10 seconds, and get the car through the intersection. similarly, where there are protected turns, the sensors determine how long the turn arrow stays on. most of cleveland has started to incorporate the loop detecters in the pavement, or via camera (euclid corridor) or radar. however, these loops are not "smart" or "truly advanced" in that it only tells the light that there is traffic waiting and that whenever the timed cycle in the other direction is done, the light should display a turn arrow or green light. on euclid, you can wait at a cross street (e40, for example) for the full cycle, even though there is no cross traffic. i imagine the other technology is expensive, but seeing as we don't meet air quality standards for the region, reducing idling traffic at stop lights is a great place to start.