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Supposedly the building and apartments were recently renovated. Otherwise I would 100000000% agree. Renovations were taking place while I was a tenant in Harrison between 2011-2012.

It is almost time for MORPC’s Fall 2017 volunteer bicycle and pedestrian counts! As you may know, MORPC has been organizing manual bicycle and pedestrian counts twice a year at select locations since 2005 as part of an ongoing effort to better understand bicycling and walking trends in the region. This September, MORPC will again be organizing counts. They are scheduled to take place on Wednesday, September 13th, and will occur from 7am to 9am and 11am to 1pm. A map of the locations to be counted can be found at: https://tinyurl.com/y9zyjlfs. If you are interested in helping out, please register online at https://tinyurl.com/y9abrhx5 or reach out to me at [email protected]. Once registered you’ll receive a map for your specific location, as well as the forms and instructions to be used for the count. For more information on MORPC monitoring efforts, or to see data collected during previous counts, please visit https://tinyurl.com/lxv6tcc. Thank you for your interest in this project. Your help is very much appreciated!

It is time again for MORPC’s semi-annual bicycle and pedestrian counts! As you may know, MORPC has been organizing manual bicycle and pedestrian counts twice a year at select locations since 2005 as part of an ongoing effort to better understand bicycling and walking trends in the region. This spring, MORPC will again be organizing counts. They are scheduled to take place on Wednesday, May 17th, and will occur from 7am to 9am and 11am to 1pm. A map of the locations to be counted can be found at:https://tinyurl.com/lj2bugc. If you are interested in helping out, please register online at https://tinyurl.com/lqslpg6 or reach out to me at [email protected]. Once registered you’ll receive a map for your specific location, as well as the forms and instructions to be used for the count. For more information on MORPC monitoring efforts, or to see data collected during previous counts, please visit https://tinyurl.com/lxv6tcc. Thank you for your interest in this project. Your help is very much appreciated!

The description of your apartment sounds very much like mine on North Moreland. I like the quirky remnants of the past as they add character to the unit, but I have had a couple maintenance issues in the last few weeks. My building's management company / property owners control about 15 structures both north and south of the Square, and seem to be consistently making interior and exterior improvements, as well as more extensive property landscaping. I have also heard rumblings that they are looking into purchasing one or more apartment buildings south of the Square that are in rough condition (one includes the building fronting South Moreland on the southwest corner of Drexmore). Nothing certain though.

Couldn't agree more. Even the way they describe it makes it sound exactly like Crocker Park. Pinecrest is even called Cleveland's newest "lifestyle district" on its own website: http://www.discoverpinecrest.com/intro

I definitely agree with these thoughts. I grew up in the rural outskirts of Columbus, moved into the city proper to attend OSU, and have lived in Cleveland for the past two years. I always heard growing up that there was "nothing to do" in Columbus, but really grew to appreciate the city while at OSU. I now mostly travel to Columbus to visit family and friends, and catch the occasional concert that skips Cleveland. I started visiting Cleveland about five years ago (my girlfriend is from Lyndhurst). I remember her describing W 25th St as "Cleveland's Short North," and finally driving down the street thinking "is this it?" (I also remember her describing Coventry as the Short North). I recall being shocked at the stark inequalities of the metro area and the sociology lesson that is the Green Line. Cleveland has absolutely grown on me since those visits, and I have come to appreciate how it differs from Columbus. I agree that Cleveland has a more diverse cultural history to work from, which produces some wonderful events, institutions, and food (I didn't know what a pierogi was before coming here). In my opinion Cleveland's suburbs are more interesting and varied than Columbus', but I know this can be partially attributed to different development timelines and annexations. While Columbus has the well connected core neighborhoods, Cleveland has that "big city" downtown. I have heard people in Columbus describe Cleveland as an urban wasteland and have heard people in Cleveland describe Columbus as what basically sums up to Morse Rd. Neither are true, and we are lucky to have these different cities in such close proximity.

There was a broken rail at Tower City this morning on the westbound Green/Blue/Waterfront Line through track (not sure of the number). A repair crew was working on it as of 10:00 AM.

I wonder if DCA de-duplicates the people that are on multiple waiting lists. If they do not, I could potentially be 4 of those 1,800 individuals from my apartment search this past spring. Either way it's still an impressive figure.

Cedar Lee streetscape reconstruction is now proposed to start in January or February: http://www.cleveland.com/cleveland-heights/index.ssf/2015/09/cleveland_heights_hopes_to_reb.html#incart_river

I like the design of Innova overall, however I am not a fan of the strip of angled parking in front of Phase 2. Seems like it will cause some awkward situations for pedestrians...I can see some trying to walk down the tree-lined curb separating the parking and Chester much like attempting to walk behind the stage on the plaza in Playhouse Square. But I guess the E/W orientation of Innova and the slight angle of Chester opened up that space to be filled with something. Has there been any speculation as to who the retail tenants will be?

Reminds me a lot of the "Blaze" pizza company (fast, choose-your-toppings pizza) that seems to be rapidly expanding across the country and recently set up shop on High St in Columbus. Friends at OSU tell me that it is doing well and has consistently long lines.

That bump you are talking about is jarring! I always make sure to brace myself whenever the bus approaches it.

I believe that the train that passed without stopping was only 1 car, but the one I ended up getting on had 2 cars.

I was waiting for a westbound train at Shaker Square at around 7:30 last night. With 100+ people waiting at the platform, an already-full Green Line train passed by without even stopping. Another train was supposed to arrive less than 10 minutes later, however didn't show up for probably 20 or so minutes. Several people had left in the meantime, just deciding to drive or Uber. Some others said they had been waiting at the Green Rd station for 30+ minutes before trying their luck at Shaker Square. Cavs fans getting on board the packed trains gave a new meaning to "all in."

I went through this exact portion of track roughly 8 hours before the crash on a SEPTA train between Philadelphia and Trenton. The Amtrak train I was planning on taking back from NYC to Philly was obviously cancelled. I didn't really realize how vital the NE Corridor is until I witnessed the strain it caused last night at Penn Station in NYC. Such a scary situation and a terrible tragedy.

http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2015/05/cleveland_bike_share_could_gro.html#incart_river

From the GCRTA Facebook page: "Statement by Joe Calabrese, RTA CEO & General Manager Cleveland has been experiencing a brutal winter. Record low temperatures make any commute difficult, but I know that it has been especially difficult for RTA customers. Our transit system has been impacted by significant snow, record low temperatures and ice storms -- creating frozen overhead power lines, frozen switches, six cars stuck on tracks, snow pile ups, floods and water main breaks. In fact, we have had 16 water main breaks since January alone. Nearly 200,000 customers have come to rely on RTA every day to commute to work or school. Nearly 40,000 of them use our rail system. And our rail service has disappointed those customers all too many times over the last couple of weeks. First and foremost, we would like to apologize to our customers for the significant service interruptions and delays. We have made you late for work, late for school or late for other important appointments. In many cases, we have had to replace our rail service with emergency bus service. Compounding this inconvenience has been our failure to effectively communicate with our customers. Late is never good, disrupted service is never good, and when customers don’t know what’s happening, or what’s happening next, it is unacceptable. This past week alone, many of our customers waited far longer than they wanted for their train. We had a combination of mechanical and software issues that affected 24 switches in Tower City. Because all trains travel through Tower City, the switch defects at that location affected the Red Line as well as the Blue/Green Line, causing major delays. RTA crews had to manually control the switches. To ensure safety -- always our number one priority -- trains had to move at restricted speeds through Tower City. In the next couple of weeks, we will begin a multi-year, $20 million upgrade to the track system throughout Tower City. Some areas, such as substructure and drainage, has been in place since 1955, with minor upgrades done in the 1980s. Long term, we need signal upgrades, track bridges, power substations, right-of-way work, and even new rail cars, which are now more than 30 years old. Currently, our system is safe. With the work that is scheduled to begin soon, not only will our service continue to be safe, but we’ll be able to put the word “rapid” back into RTA Rapid Transit service. But how do we better serve our customers today, tomorrow and every day? Effective immediately, when weather conditions are suspect, we will strategically locate buses on standby where they can be placed into service to serve customers in short order in the event of a rail interruption. We will implement a comprehensive communication plan to better inform our customers of service delays as they occur. The plan will ensure that customers on delayed trains, or waiting on a station’s platform, will receive timely updates. Additionally, we will work to push more information out to customers earlier to allow you to make better informed decisions relating to your daily commute. We greatly appreciate and value the relationship we have with each of our customers. We know that, in recent weeks, we have failed to provide you with the level of service you deserve. Moving forward, we are committed to working harder to regain your trust and fulfill our mission of providing every customer – safe, reliable, clean and courteous public transportation."

It is really disheartening when anything about cyclists or pedestrians is brought up in the graduate-level transportation engineering class I am currently taking at Cleveland State. The professor, thank god, at least makes an attempt to talk about non-vehicular transportation modes as viable alternatives, but is generally laughed at by my classmates if anything but cars are talked about. When talking about sign placement for cyclists today, the class said that it didn't matter and that it should be placed at head-level so as to "decapitate the d-bag cyclists because they deserve it." Other students casually make references to running over pedestrians all the time for "getting in their way." The class couldn't seem to grasp why demolishing neighborhoods to build or widen freeways was at all negative. While I understand that many of the students are joking and exaggerating when they say such things, I believe it still generally shows the attitude of a large segment of those who will be influencing transportation policy, planning, design, and implementation in the near future. This is a graduate level class and these students will, probably, be getting jobs at places such as ODOT in the next year or two. After a month and a half in this class, the lack of care for (and curriculum on) the social, environmental, etc implications of transportation (or the "fuzzy stuff" as the professor says) has become apparent. How can we expect those who are in decision-making positions to make sound, well thought out choices if they simply regurgitate information from transportation engineering manuals from the 1940s-50s (yay traffic flow!) with little regard to the millions of actual people affected by their choices?

The Lucky's in Columbus opened a bit before I moved from there to Cleveland, so I did have a few chances to check it out. When I heard another grocery store was considering the site after Giant Eagle pulled out Lucky's didn't even cross my mind. The Columbus location is in the southern portion of the Clintonville neighborhood, not too far from OSU and always seemed to be doing good business (even with a Giant Eagle basically across the street). In many ways Edgewater and Lakewood are similar to southern Clintonville, if that is any indication of how strong business will be.

Former McKinley Elementary site development: http://www.cleveland.com/lakewood/index.ssf/2015/02/lakewood_approves_sale_of_form.html#incart_river

I noticed that "Gabe's Deli" will be taking over the old MoCa space on Clifton between W 104th and W 105th in Edgewater. I saw that MoCa had closed a few months ago.

Did the bus look like this by any chance? http://www.riderta.com/news/nov-19-rta-purchase-60-buses-powered-cng

^I definitely agree about investing in infrastructure to capitalize on anchor institutions, but I just feel uneasy about this "industrial renaissance" being built around shale gas. While it's great to be able to enjoy it while it runs its 50 year (or less) course, it is still a finite resource. What is going to happen to the foreign manufacturing investment when the gas is no longer cheap and the supply diminishes? Can we depend on the existence of a replacement resource to be discovered before the natural gas runs out? It seems like a boom and bust situation without foresight. Should people want to live in an area whose economic well-being is largely dependent upon this?

The editor of 614 magazine doesn't seem to enjoy the idea too much: "Now, excuse me while I hop in the heated seat of my comfortable SUV and make the harrowing 14-minute, 9-mile journey home which the taxes sloshing around my gas tank paid for." http://614now.com/2014/opinion/opinion-dont-be-railroaded-columbus Ugh

From what I've gathered, Google maps only displays the heavy or commuter rail lines when you click on "transit." I would guess that's why only the Red Line is shown in Cleveland, and for some cities which have light rail but no heavy, the "transit" button isn't even shown.