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Is their money not green & legal? Spend it here, then GTFO. That's the whole point, having CLE make money and being showcased, yet you advocated that assassinating Trump would be ''altruistic violence''. Does your ''altruistic violence'' apply to delegates, visitors to the Convention, and other innocent bystanders that may get caught up in it? After the Dallas domestic terror attack, Cleveland may see all kinds of your ''altruistic violence''. Careful what you wish for.

Is their money not green & legal? Spend it here, then GTFO. After what just happened in Dallas tonight, I wouldn't go near downtown Cleveland for the RNC.

Had to do a double-take here...you're promoting CLE pointers to RNC visitors-delegates?

Yes, and considering that the Millennials were basically absent from cities during their childhood and safely ensconced in the suburbs, it is great to see young children (the future) exposed to the urban environment as opposed to the suburban malls the Millennials grew up in.

Kasich only seems "reasonable" in a room with Trump, Cruz and Huckabee. Outside of this, he is the GOP poster child. Tax breaks for corporate interests and "balancing" the budget by pushing down expenses to counties and cities. The flipside is we are living through a period of MASSIVE job growth and population influx thanks to these tax breaks! :roll: In Ohio, MASSIVE job and population growth? Hmm...est. population growth in Ohio 2010-2015: 57,000. That's not MASSIVE.

That was a major point of building the HealthLine....spurring development along Euclid Avenue. Great building, glad it's being brought back to life in a residential development.

$18 million will doom a lot more than that -- including many businesses who depend on access to inner-city labor. Where are Democrats Sen. Sherrod Brown and Rep. Marcia Fudge on transit generally and transit funding in particular?

$18 million will doom a lot more than that -- including many businesses who depend on access to inner-city labor. Where are Sherrod Brown and Marcia Fudge on transit generally and funding in particular?

This could doom the WFL and Green Line altogether.

Many cities have watering crews. They hit the planters, hanging baskets, median plantings etc. They cruise around in a green water truck. See them in Chicago all the time on Michigan Avenue. Could be a private contract with a Mag Mile group but something DCA should consider.

...and when you look around the former great U.S. industrial cities (Cleveland) and see the abandonment, decline and rot in these manufacturing centers...and we can't get the parts in the U.S. for this tiny pedestrian bridge and now we can't build it in the harbor? Something is seriously wrong here.

Uh-oh. This is not good news at all. Have to say there's nothing like convenient and inexpensive rail transit. This past weekend in Philly I took the PATCO High-Speed line to Camden for a concert at the BB&T Center (Philly's version of Blossom Music Center but in an urban setting with the Ben Franklin Bridge and Philly skyline to the east). Two minute walk to the subway station; 6 minute ride to Camden City Hall station, less than 10 min walk to venue. Total round-trip fare: $2.80! These trains fly, live up to its name, High-Speed Line; ride under the Ben Franklin Bridge roadway. Underground in Center Center over and under Camden, further out in Jersey it rides at grade. Built in the 1930s. My favorite Philly transit line. Connects to the River Line in Camden for ride north to Trenton, with connections at the Trenton Transit Center to SEPTA, NJ Transit to NYC, Amtrak. Last time I rode to Trenton it was $1.35 one-way. Great ride along the east bank of the Delaware River. I wonder if many use the WFL for shows at Nautica? The key in all the east coast transit systems is convenience and properly routed lines. Jersey is covered with rail lines, north to NYC, west to Philly, east to Atlantic City. There's talk of a River Line extension south of Camden. Then there's the east coast cities' local transit systems which are, for the most part, excellent.

Yes if you have to follow that "made in america" guideline for the funding. The U.S. doesn't even make parts for this little pedestrian bridge...lol....we are in bad shape.

Yep, I'd rather scrap it than have this clunky thing and, as you state, it doesn't cut much off of circulation patterns.

And I've said numerous times, there is a lot of applicable research that suggests that forcing that tax burden on existing residents assuming it will actually lead to more businesses and jobs in the central core is debatable policy. I won't rehash the same discussion, but if people and businesses have access to the same resources (all other things considered) but a chance to pay less in taxes, unless they're extremely altruistic they're going to go where they'll keep most of their own money. Again, just playing with the numbers, it appears that even with these visitors it's still almost certainly a net loss (an extreme one at that, even, in most cases) on a per ride basis when non-residents ride. In terms of actual job creation, that's up for debate, and a far more complicated economic analysis. Incidentally, that demand does exist a few days per year. And those are the days that I've suggested fares be increased with a variety of goals in mind. :clap: RTA employees: "OK, it's St Patrick's Day...everyone get your IDs out'' at every rapid station and bus stop...lol...sounds like a plan.