thebillshark

It’s a better idea than hyperloop

actually you could spend more than $59 million on a renovation and still come out ahead because at the end you’d have a asset worth more than a vacant lot

the library garden is on the vine street side of the north building. This is on the walnut street side of the south building. This is where the raised bed with ivy is (and the parking lot) by the streetcar stop

$59 million seems like a lot to get back to a vacant lot. What if they sunk that much into renovation into apartments and built the hotel on the lot to the south? (Apartment conversion could be difficult because of many factors but could $59 million make it work?)

City kids toss football a lot, even if not playing a full blown game. Informal baseball is rare, although I remember hearing the sounds from aluminum bats from organized games on Dyer field in the west end a lot from when I lived on Klotter. The Reds fund helped upgrade that field

^articles like that almost always overstate the significance of whatever has been actually accomplished

Whoa https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2019/12/23/cincinnati-bell-to-be-acquired-for-2-6.html?iana=hpmvp_cinci_news_headline

that’s not the way this stadium project has been operating so far. Every step of this project has been an ultimatum on a deadline.

^None of what you said is actually a response to what I said. I’d love to see a parking garage near Findlay Market but I think blocking off Logan St. is a bad idea.

Blocking off Logan with an above ground garage would be a bad outcome. With all the billionaires and tax money involved in this we should be getting better outcomes. a better outcome would be an underground garage underneath Logan leaving it intact with infill development above. You know, adding more people and businesses in Over the Rhine. a better outcome would be building the garage just across Central Parkway from the market in this giant empty gravel lot and leaving the street grid intact.

that’s the problem with this whole process- when they finally reveal the site and it turns out to be a terrible plan there will not be time for anyone to do anything about it and there will not be any chance for any other options to be pursued

Oh no. It looks like we’ve lost the Jackson Brewery. https://www.wcpo.com/news/local-news/hamilton-county/cincinnati/over-the-rhine/two-alarm-warehouse-fire-in-otr-sunday-morning

No I am not saying it couldn’t be spent on things that help pedestrians. I am just saying it has to touch a bus route and not be totally unrelated to the bus system.

A case could be made for pedestrian improvements, I was just saying the 0.2% for infrastructure has to be related to the bus system in some way

perhaps a case could be made in situations like that where they are along bus routes

the 0.2% is reserved for streets that function as bus routes. A community redevelopment organization could come up with a plan to do this using an existing TIF and then city council would vote on the release of funds.

This isn’t quite the angle I was looking at this topic from, but here’s one for the case file: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/stop-building-glass-skyscrapers

"Cincy till I die", or until FC Cincinnati demolishes it.

I think you could convince non bus riders that the negative externalities of a broken bus system (like increased traffic and unemployment) would be bad. The slogan should be “Save Metro”

^too optimistic I think. The way to win this is through fear that the bus system will face huge cuts or will perhaps cease to exist as we know it if the levy loses. (Which is a true statement.) Proposing specific BRT corridors is too attackable from all sorts of angles at this point in time. “Why isn’t our neighborhood going to get a BRT route?” And “This BRT is going to take away parking, clog up traffic and ruin the neighborhood!” would be arguments spread through trolling by the same cynical opponents.

It’s like the whole point is trolling urbanists, flipping around the entrances of the stores so they face the rear parking lot and not the street.

i thought the same thing. How the heck is that a selling point? it’s right across from one of the the biggest crimes against urbanism in the region (the huge blank wall Rookwood exchange built facing the Edwards Rd. traditional business district) : https://goo.gl/maps/FHyYpbxCiwzBQZDG6

??? What? These are precisely the kind of places that have identity and soul compared to something corporate and generic. Main Street has been doing really well since Ziegler Park reopened and sidewalk/crosswalk improvements were made. I really don’t see your point about anything in your comment.

I’ve previously thought about how it might be designed if there were no turnouts or switches/bifurcations involved. You would have point to point destinations only- so a pair of tubes, to/from between each city pair. The capsule would travel at normal speeds (due to the tubes having many curves) until they got out of a city’s sprawl zone. Perhaps the majority of time on each trip would be spent navigating this area. Once out in a rural area it could meet up with banks of other tubes with a super straight alignment allowing high speeds. Having banks of tubes could make the tubes (only slightly) easier to maintain by being concentrated along one route. To avoid having hundreds of tubes providing point to point connections, each city would only have a tube pair to the next city over in each direction as well as a separate tube pair to the city after that. Or, you could have a tier system where tier A cities have a tube pair to the next tier A city and separate tube pairs for any tier B cities in between.

^thats why it’s ridiculous for anyone to do a hyperloop feasibility study focusing on things like fares. That’s like someone picking out the paint colors for a mansion they want to buy before they have $100 saved to their name. that, and there’s an ongoing insistence that hyperloop will by privately funded or cheaper than rail when all indications are that the hyperloop infrastructure will be much more complicated and thus more expensive than rail (maintaining the vacuum tubes, less flexibility in acquiring right of way because it has to be straight as an arrow due to the high speeds involved)