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Awe, so this actually happened..

I would. I see no reason to slam Sioux Falls..there are much worse places to live. I have relatives that live down the highway in Sioux City, Iowa - and SF is by far the nicer of the two. SC is nice, but a lot grittier. Sioux Falls reminded me of a non-scenic version of what I imagine Missoula, Montana to be a lot like..which is a place I've always romanticized.

Besides, CSU has a lot of potential in the future in attracting a different type of demographic--an edgier, more mature, confident, urban set of students. If CSU were smart they'd try and ward off all of this homecoming silliness and spend it on some public art, or a film project, or an edgy photography gallery, or who knows what. There is so much potential as CSU sets itself apart as an urban university. Anyway, here's the bird's eye view of the Langston that I took the other day:

What's wrong with them? It's a nice red brick building. Contrast. Euclid is a historic district, give me a break, you can't have acquisition for the sake of demolition. If the RH needs to be acquired to grow the health mission of CSU and the NEOMED program, so be it, but otherwise that's irresponsible and destructive. I don't know the story of the Jewish nonprofit building on the south side of Euclid, but that is truly the last remaining blight on that side of Euclid. Nothing against Jewish nonprofits, just abandoned ugly 60s-era buildings.

I talked to the local partner of HOK for an article and was very impressed. Didn't know what to expect based on what he said about historic/progressive balance, but I certainly see it now. http://www.csucauldron.com/news/viking-hall-wolfe-building-to-be-demolished-1.2917097#.UHB3XWt5mK2 I also like the first and third NBBJ proposals...I have a hunch that their amoeba proposal is the favorite.

I will take some pics from the top of Main Classroom this week...awesome view from behind the elevators there.

I hear ya. Fortunately, it doesn't happen often. Maybe a couple times a year. However, you will face a long-term issue when the S-Curve between the West 117th and West Boulevard stations is taken out of service to completely replaced the track-floor through the S-Curve's cut. There's a natural spring under there and the entire thing needs to be scooped out and replaced. That means no trains west of West Boulevard for about a month next spring.... http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2012/05/post_23.html Holy crap. And there is no decent commuter parking W of 117...yikes

Thanks! One of the RTA workers I was chatting with just shrugged and said the overhead wires get the crap beat out of them all the time, chalking it up to wear and tear. I hope this doesn't happen often or I may need to do more than just bluster occasionally about relying on RTA...

There is a commuter alert service you can sign up for (which sent out multiple messages yesterday,) and they had a notification scrolling on the homepage of the website. There wasn't (and isn't) anything in the "Rider's Alerts" section when you click "Important information," though. How did you sign up?

Hey KJP - just got off the phone with RTA's press sec for an article I'm doing for the CSU rag and she confirmed they wanted to improve headways to 15 min but that has encountered significant delays due to some recent lightning damage near Brook Park and one other place that is critical to address first. So we're not talking 2012 anymore is my impression.

Well I think it was all day yesterday. I had friends who got screwed by it late in the evening, and on my morning commute the workers were shouting westbound only at the ticket carousels. That was around 9am..on my train the conductor tried delivering a message but the PA was defective and I didn't realize something was up until my train came into Tower City on the wrong side. I heard some overhead wires fell down east of TC.

I like Uptown as well but that's because it employs mod design but conforms to classical urban form that reinforces the human scale. I don't think plazas are beneficial for downtown, however. The study of urban form has proven that plazas are a hindrance rather than a help to increasing activity. Besides, Uptown isn't hiding behind a big wind swept plaza..it comes right up to Euclid and embraces the people on the sidewalk.

There's not actually much traffic outside of rush hour. Yeah, if I go downtown late at night I take my car, which means I use the Shoreway...I'll be the only car on the viaduct after 10. Idk if you guys have stayed at many Alofts but they have a branded bar concept called XYZ that usually goes on the top floor. One huge Aloft being built in DT OKC has 3 bars and 2 coffee shops, so their brand has a ton of flexibility with where they locate amenities. Ill be shocked it it ain't a bar. I really think the roof swoop that goes above the Shoreway is simply a concealment for building systems, sadly...

That would put the WHD in play as a part of the solution for Public Square reconfig.

Red line service was cancelled yesterday east of Tower City. Trying to get from University Circle back home to Lakewood took almost 2 hours including finding the shuttle to the HealthLine (should have just walked across Case)...

For schools you're probably looking outside of Cleveland, which crosses off districts like University Circle, Ohio City, Tremont, and several other cool areas. The main nice inner-ring suburbs are Cleveland Heights, Shaker Heights, Lakewood, and Rocky River. I also think the Westpark/Kamm's Corners area of Cleveland proper (near where I live) has decent schools, since I see lots of cute little kids with parents when I drive through those school zones LOL, but I'm unsure on the high school. There's generally two areas you should look at, one that includes most stuff in a 4-mile radius of Cleveland Heights, the other being most everything in a 4-mile radius of Lakewood. That is if good schools are a must. Of course, if you can compromise on the housing stock, there are some very upscale newer suburbs as already mentioned.

Absolutely, and it's all good. I heard they're worried about a rent increase, although next door Bobby C the barber said he was told no rent increase, Pace is just going to try and bring in new tenants.

So true about January but I don't think that's going to happen. I've been in love with RTA until lately, it just seems to be slipping lately. This morning I missed a train around 9:20ish which must be after the rush period. I would never say RTA doesn't do a fantastic job with its limited resources. Most transit agencies can't say that. OKC's is such a worthless black hole for funding that they're creating a separate conservancy-type (ala Friends of Central Park, etc) agency to manage the streetcar system that is about to break ground.

Well that would be great, maybe I'll feel more comfortable relying on the Rapid once they do that. 15 min headways is the highest interval generally considered acceptable for comparable LRT-type modes (yes Red Line is diesel). This morning I missed it because I cut it too close/parking was tight and the Rapid was slightly early (at least it's better than the reliability of the HealthLine which is down there next to Ford Pintos and Kayaking Lake Erie) and just gave up and drove downtown. I'm going to just drive and find parking if I'm ever in a real hurry again.

It really is becoming a demo derby and I'm too new to even know the story behind any of these buildings, I just watch the same yellow bulldozer mosey up and down Detroit at a rapid pace these days... That structure does not need to be demo'd for a gas station though. Sheesh. Another idea that I had is that Lakewood could really benefit from targeting real estate incentives on sites that meet a revamped priority scale, stressing important intersections. It's kinda odd that street walls around town are still fairly contiguous, albeit not like in the city's heyday, except almost always at important intersections..like anything at Bunts for example (Madison, Detroit, etc).. The more important street corner, the more likely you've got a parking lot or a Little Caeser's pizza with parking, or a gas station, or so on... There is definitely a rhyme and a reason to Lakewood's urban fabric (or some place's lack thereof) but not to it's development (which is still mostly quite nice and progressive IMO).

There are long lines everywhere you go on the RTA...I know they do well with limited resources, but we're desperately under served. I think Cleveland should look at the benefits of fixing everything and providing promo service all day long, m-f... I'm getting tired of relying on it with the 20 min intervals during the day which lead to around a hundred people waiting underneath Tower City to get on the Red Line westbound every time...and don't even get me started on how under served the west side is and the sights and sounds of waiting 20 minutes under Tower City (they really should market the waterfalls as a tourist attraction). Very few of the clocks or next train boards work, and the NextConnect apmis junk. Ugh A tourist trolley is a huge waste of time and money. They need lower intervals on the Red Line, not a tourist trolley to haul fatass lazy tourists The 5 blocks to the Rock n Roll HOF. More E Line service would even be better...just the other day at Playhouse Square The trolley quizzed past a huge waiting crowd bc it was already full. I usually just walk from the Levin College to Public Square to save time.. Ugh, again

I think they did, but the work I noticed is already over.

I don't even see Tremont as mostly bars, sure there are some, but abundance of coffee bars and lunch cafés like Grumpy's is what I see there... On a side note, does anyone know what's up with the building that was demolished on Detoit between Pepper's and Giant Eagle? They were staging it all last week, if I remember right it was a crappy building...and it looks like the bulldozers, which are staying busy, have moved up Detroit to another building closer to Bunts.

No doubt that the action plan is making progress and that it's an alright place to be, even if it's demographics kinda suck..funny thing is the area is mostly students, immigrants, and retired...I myself have no "income" to boost the stats but a good amount of disposable income. Its too bad the community garden on Plover isn't active this year with drought, but urban farming is starting to line streets as well...I'd kill to be able to put a coffee shop in one of the buildings along Plover or Thrush. A very Tremontesque type place, if it could warrant a minor bldg reno.

I use that station several times a day and live in the Birdtown area so I'm painfully aware how bad that stretch of Madison looks. Birdtown is cute/huge potential, but it's disconnected... I wonder if Lakewood could buy an easement from GrafTech and put in some trails linking Lakewood to the Rapid station, also creating a more positive visual sample of Lakewood for passerby. Driving on the Madison potholes is a war of attrition on my car. I can't complain about being a 4 minute walk to Angelo's and a 9 minute walk to the Rapid...but it could be a nicer walk lol