jonoh81

The Rapid5 project is back in the news finally, but the details remain as vague as ever. www.dispatch.com/story/news/2021/07/21/plans-columbus-area-rivers-parks-unveiled-rapid-5-franklin-county/8027705002/ It all just seems like a continued expansion of the existing trail/multi-use path system, with additional access points on the area's rivers. There are no specific projects in mind, no timeline and only a reference to doing what Columbus does best- studying more. The only new details seem to be that they want to build/incorporate some local historical points of interest into the mix. And of course, there was the obligatory rail reference (below) that we all know will never happen. • The Big Darby Creek region, with “native landscape connects people to the original Ohio prairie grasslands and woodland edged streams of the Big and Little Darby watersheds.” The plan proposes connections along 65 miles of trails, along with bus, trolley (and, potentially, passenger rail) services, bike share programs, seasonal hot air balloon rides, even a gondola. I'm underwhelmed. I would be more excited if this was a lot more ambitious in terms of funding projects more quickly and doing multiple transformative ones all at the same time, but it sounds like something we'll maybe have 30 years from now only if everything works out exactly right.

Going back through old articles, the change in attitude was very fast. One year they were celebrating it as a Columbus icon for its like 100th anniversary, and a few years later it was a Downtown "eyesore" that stood in the way of progress. From what I understand, the Greyhound station only entered the picture after demolition was already planned. I think the whole "Market Mohawk" urban renewal people figured out that Central Market occupied prime territory and just decided it needed to go, which prompted a lot of subsequent articles about how it needed more maintenance than it was worth.

I still can't believe they tore down Central Market for that.

Who cares, honestly? Columbus not having a strong, specific identity also doesn’t limit it to one identity, which is a positive IMO. It’s broadly attractive. Too many need labels to things, but those labels can be anchors.

I'd be partial to Baleen Byway.

They would claim it would violate the historic character of the neighborhood despite the neighborhood historically being directly connected to Downtown with buildings. On the bright side, we'd get more fodder for jokes when they come up with new sea creatures to describe the buildings. The whale is so last month.

Well at least that's some good news.

It's not just that Ginther doesn't focus on the core, but I struggle to come up with something he's doing for really any part of the city. There's been some token push for more affordable housing, I guess?

The city pushed for covering the Downtown highway trench for years during the planning phases of the 70-71 fix, but ODOT refused to even consider it. They did ultimately agree to allow buildable caps at i believe 3rd and High?, but it’s been several years and we’ve heard nothing about it since. Who knows if that’s still in the works. As for the current administration, we can’t even get a bike lane out of them.

Yes, all that makes sense, but I think now it would be really interesting to see the bridge to the west with connections to Vets/SP and also a connection to the planned railroad bridge park.

I was always curious why they proposed it to be east of the railroad bridge instead of west. It would be a more direct route between Franklinton/AD and would likely be somewhat less expensive to build it to the west.

I'm sure Crew fans won't use this in any memes whatsoever.

Why not just make all of the AD as the DORA? It doesn't make sense to me to have only certain streets. Seems like a recipe for people getting into trouble accidentally by unknowingly walking down a street that doesn't have the designation.

Something tells me Main Bar is not in danger of imminent collapse. It's a case of they got the opinion they paid for.

Didn't Cincinnati do this after the 2000 Census? The margin there, however, was significantly larger than 89 votes. We don't know whether counting accuracy was all that good last year, what with the Trump administration messing with it and the pandemic in place, so New York should probably at least question it with it being that close.

Behind a paywall, so I have no idea what this is based on. That said, safe bet it's pretty wrong.

It's already been established that developers can get away with changing their designs after approval without any subsequent oversight in the Downtown area.

The C thing reminds me more of Cleveland than Columbus. I am not a soccer fan, but this seems completely tone deaf considering what the team and fan base just went through.

A current view of the whalers:

Does Akron meet the commuting requirements to be a part of Cleveland's metro?

See also: Cin-Day

They happen like every 6 months.

You have a link? I'm not seeing those numbers anywhere.

Here are the numbers ordered by the old 2019 estimate, the revised 2019 estimate for the 2020 release, and the 2020 estimate by metro. Akron 703,479-704,136-703,818 Canton 397,520-399,449-398,544 Cincinnati 2,221,208-2,205,111-2,214,370 Cleveland 2,048,449-2,057,650-2,053,841 Columbus 2,122,271-2,084,070-2,105,684 Dayton 807,611-803,899-805,688 Toledo 641,816-644,831-643,692 Youngstown 536,081-541,388-538,124 It's pretty clear the estimates program was having issues- particularly with Columbus and to a lesser extant Cincinnati- and are going to be way off from the final counts. Its seems at some point it was decided the growth areas of the state were being overestimated, which kind of matches the underestimation of the state overall. It will be interesting to see how this plays out with the final numbers.

I think you were reading far too much into what I said. When I said "official", I was talking about the 2020 census numbers. Obviously estimates are real numbers and official for that particular program, but since we already know the state was way off, it's to be expected that the counties will be too.