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The advantage of the purple route is how close it comes to lots of UC housing. The new Deacon development, and all the houses lining Flora, Victor, Chickasaw, etc. That's a population that seems like it would really use the line, and reduce the need for students to all have cars and find parking in the neighborhood.

Some new images were posted on the CUF Neighborhood Association Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/CUFNA/photos/pcb.5277581392293165/5277576012293703

There appears to be new renderings on their Courbanize page as well (at least I hadn't seen them before): https://courbanize.com/projects/trinitas-cuf/information

Traffic calming on McMillan Avenue at Fairview Park Drive and Clemmer: Due to an increase in car accidents, on McMillan at Clemmer, Jack Martin reported that DOTE will be reducing uphill traffic to one lane and installing paddles • Jack suggested adding a bike lane where the second uphill lane currently exists, and a marked crosswalk at Clemmer and the entrance to Fairview Park From the October 2021 CUF newsletter. I haven't heard anything else about it so I have no idea if it's still in the works. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5dd5834d0ca97e68df9cd414/t/6164dd367106911bfdb26780/1634000221118/Oct21.pdf

A much-needed sidewalk is finally going in between the intersection of Fairview Ave / McMillan and the entrance to Fairview Park. Currently the only way to walk to/from this entrance of the park involves a mad dash across McMillan as it curves up the hill. I've done it with a stroller and it's not fun. This should make the park easier to access at that end for pedestrians.

I agree, my only comment was to add McMicken to the list. I usually take East Clifton on bike since traffic on McMicken can be too fast for comfortable biking.

Didn't we miss the boat on that width the recent "diet"?

I drove by the Flatiron building the other day and was surprised to see how quickly it's getting renovated. Mt. Auburn CDC posted these images on Facebook

Being a current resident of CUF for now 5 years, there are certainly a decent percentage of cars that just sit for weeks at a time. I'm assuming they're students who mostly walk (possibly for fear of losing their space). Not sure what it would take to get them to ditch their cars altogether. CUF is in a weird middle ground between being dense enough to be completely walkable, but spread out enough to make cars an asset.

Looks like good projects. Always overlooked though are the public staircases, a number of which are in complete disrepair. Those are assets that the city could capitalize on and use to reconnect neighborhoods, in conjunction with the (much-needed) streetscape improvements.

Spring in Our Steps posted this interesting diagram of how the various alleyways/streets on the hillside between Mohawk and Clifton Heights used to look: I have no idea what would go into reactivating that portion of Renner St, not to mention the stair connection to Klotter. But it seems with the increased housing demand there might be a reason to do so, unless it was abandoned for landslide/safety issues and not just misguided 1960s "urban renewal." It looks like this may be where the Manchester stairs hit Klotter: https://www.google.com/maps/@39.1223459,-84.5237325,3a,71.7y,183.84h,89.73t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sMIu8VBFcMP2CNOt7l1iFog!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3DMIu8VBFcMP2CNOt7l1iFog%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D182.42052%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192

Will we ever see circular buildings make a comeback? The riverfront Radisson in Covington is perhaps the last standard-bearer in the region.

The painted bricks are a defining feature of OTR that differentiate it from other 19th century historic districts. I love how gaudy they can be - like the above rehab painted navy blue, hunter green and light pink.

Now that the race is without a frontrunner - any likelihood that Aftab would run for mayor?