TPH2

I was wondering about that a couple weeks ago when I was taking the Green Line out to Green Road. The stretch between Shaker and Green Rd (or Warrensville) would be much more pleasant with signal priority for trains. I was also wondering about the evolution of the total travel time from TC/CUT to the outer termini of the Shaker Lines. I tried looking it up quickly but didn't find exact figures, but I know it used to be faster. Does anyone know what the times were pre-1981, then after the rebuild/Breda car introduction, then present day (RTA schedules say 28 minutes for both Green and Blue lines)?

Forest City will sell stake in Brooklyn Nets, Barclays Center to Prokhorov By Michelle Jarboe, The Plain Dealer on December 22, 2015 at 6:22 PM, updated December 23, 2015 at 8:28 AM CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Forest City Enterprises, Inc., ended months of speculation late Tuesday, when the company announced a deal to sell its stake in the Brooklyn Nets basketball team and the Barclays Center arena to Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov. Cleveland-based Forest City said the sale, approved by the National Basketball Association's board of governors this month, will close late this year or in early 2016. A Forest City subsidiary owns 20 percent of the team and 55 percent of the arena, which the real estate company developed as part of its broader Pacific Park Brooklyn project, then known as Atlantic Yards. http://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2015/12/forest_city_will_sell_stake_in.html

Status as of about 5:15pm tonight

Public Square is on City Lab's "The Big U.S. Transportation Infrastructure Projects to Watch in 2016" list. I wish Cleveland had something in the transportation section, but oh well. http://www.citylab.com/commute/2015/12/us-infrastructure-projects-2016-transportation/421431/

@GCRTA 10:40am · 22 Dec 2015 Due to an accident on the Blue Line, 67R buses will replace trains btwn Shaker Sq & Warrensville-Van Aken until further notice.

El Niño sure picked a good year to give us a warm winter (knocks on wood that it stays that way)

That doesn't mean we need 14 foot lanes on West 25th Street.

^ Attack of the Clones above Jedi?!?! I always had VI as my personal #1

That bothered me, too. It's a cool concept, but why would anyone invest the type of resources it would take to build something like that when the first two failed in such spectacular fashion? Because they have such enormous power. The First Order wanted to show that they would be able to exceed the power of the Empire. My problem was more with how easy it was to get the shields lowered.

My understanding is that the Resistance is ultimately the entity fighting the First Order. The New Republic is a political entity that provides funding and is generally sympathetic to the Resistance, but they do not control the Resistance. There is probably a lot of hesitation among the New Republic's leadership in starting a large military because of what happened with the Old Republic was transitioned into the Empire. They see the Resistance as a force they can support, but don't want control over for fear of the wrong people taking over. And as I understand it, the First Order likely started in an isolated region of the galaxy and took over a lot of smaller, insignificant systems as they built up power (kind of like ISIS). Also, I don't think the New Republic has control over most of the galaxy, which led to the rise of the First Order. Just a few systems. It wasn't entirely flushed out in this movie, though. So I could be wrong about how much they controlled. There is a brief line by Snoke about cutting off the Resistance's supporter by destroying the New Republic. And I don't think that was Coruscant. I'm sure it's definitively explained in some further reading. But providing all of the minutia is part of what ruined I-III, so doing a little research to find out exactly how the galaxy was organized is OK, IMO. So, Wookieepedia says the planet that was destroyed was Hosnian Prime, in the Hosnian System. I didn't think of looking there as I sometimes forget how Star Wars defines its "cannon" more liberally than some other franchises Also, here's a good article: http://birthmoviesdeath.com/2015/12/18/what-the-hell-is-the-story-with-the-resistance-and-the-first-order-in-the-f

Sort of like JJ's Star Trek Into Darkness...? Star Trek: ID was pretty much a ripoff. Star Wars: TFA was more INSPIRED by the original. I didn't get the direct remake vibe that others did. Similar plot development, but I think it stands on its own. Yeah, I do agree with that. I do hope that we get more back story about the last 30 years though in the next two movies. As mu2010[/member] mentioned above, I really enjoyed the politics of the prequel movies. I think looking at a post-revolution galaxy would be fascinating. We learn next to nothing about the New Republic and then it seems to have been eviscerated in just a blink of an eye. Some questions I have: -What amount of the galaxy does the Republic have under its control? -What is the relationship between the Republic and the Resistance? -What exactly was wiped out by the First Order's super weapon? The planet looked like Coruscant, but I don't think Coruscant was the capital of the New Republic -Why does the Republic not seem to engage directly with the First Order militarily?

Sort of like JJ's Star Trek Into Darkness...?

The PD just posted this ad for a transportation reporter: https://cleveland.craigslist.org/wri/5369527374.html

My biggest disappointment was that Tower City Cinemas didn't show the Star Trek trailer before the premiere But I thought the movie was great. The thing I liked best was probably Kylo Ren's character. Star Wars has always been fairly white and black when it comes to good vs. evil, so I appreciated a villain that was conflicted and thus more complex.

^ Cleveland.com might want to update that article, considering the rail lines have been back running for almost 5 hours now...

I did some digging this morning and it seems that before the highway was constructed, there was a battle between Don Hyde and Al Porter (as usual) over what would be in the median. Porter was quoted in the PD as saying the plan to use the median for transit was "monumental nonsense."

I was just reading through the plans for the Northwest Freeway and it also states that the median strip was intended for additional rush hour lanes. KJP[/member], I know there were plans for a CTS rapid line in the median, but was the freeway constructed with that as the original intent, or were those plans formulated after already knowing there would be a median in the highway? I can't find definitive information either way.

Right, and because of that proposed freeway, the planners expected traffic flow to be very heavy on that section I-90. The original plans were to create reversible lanes starting at W 140th and going east, so that there could be 8 lanes available going east bound in the morning and then west bound in the evening rush. Obviously the Parma Freeway was never built and nor were the median rush hour lanes

Due to some kind of problem with the overhead wires: @GCRTA 12/20/15 2:01 PM: "The Waterfront, Red, Blue & Green Lines replaced with buses from Tower City to E.55th and from Waterfront to Tower City." Also, is RTA's Commuter Alerts actually a real thing? I've signed up no less than 2 separate times, yet I never get any notifications.

A couple pictures from this afternoon (sorry for the crappy quality)

IIRC, a parking lot. Apparently Geis has plans to build on the spot, but it seems to be a few years off.

Exactly my thoughts. Can someone at least go in and clean up the Cadillac Ranch patio area and replace some of the windows on the upper floors that currently have plywood in them?

And the previous exterior looked like it was from the 1950s...so we're making progress!

^ It's underwhelming, but still an improvement over what was there, not that that was a high bar though Cleveland Hopkins airport ranks last in customer satisfaction: J.D. Power survey By Susan Glaser, The Plain Dealer Email the author | Follow on Twitter on December 16, 2015 at 11:20 AM, updated December 16, 2015 at 12:42 PM CLEVELAND, Ohio – Cleveland Hopkins International Airport ranks dead last in customer satisfaction among medium-sized airports in North America, according to a recent survey of more than 21,000 travelers. The survey, conducted for J.D. Power, ranked 31 large airports (with passenger enplanements of 7 million and up), and 33 medium-sized airports on six factors: terminal facilities, airport accessibility, security check, baggage claim, check-in/baggage check and terminal shopping. http://www.cleveland.com/travel/index.ssf/2015/12/cleveland_hopkins_ranks_last_i.html

^ That one is definitely not unique to Ohio