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I would start with the Delaware Planning Commission http://www.dcrpc.org/ (you'll have to contact them, there are no traffic counts on their website) and if they have nothing, contact MORPC (http://www.morpc.org). Maybe the ODOT district building, over on E. William would have local traffic counts (or else at their library in Columbus) Happy researching. :-)

Several items of note. West Virginia hasn't decided if I-73 will be two lanes, 4 lanes lanes with access, or 4 lanes with restricted access. And I've seen conflicting reports over the years as to which way WVa will go. There are only two cities in Ohio who want I-73. Toledo and Portsmouth. Why? So they can get to Columbus quicker (Toledo's mayor actually complained about not having a direct freeway connection to Columbus back in 1994). And there is the thought (through out the states) that being along an interstate will atract businessses to your area. This and more about I-73 can be found at http://www.roadfan.com/i73nat.html written by yours truely.

Nope, no word about Scioto River bridges down here in Baton Rouge. Maybe ColDayMan, Summit St, or even Locasush might have seen something in one of the papers.

But I'm not interested in eating seaweed for the rest of my life.

You staying at OSU for a masters or are you leaving Columbus?

Great, a mini controversy. That bridge has been there for forever and a day. And after the Industrial park finally relenquished their demands for that rail spur (the line used to go west to Ostrander and Marysville, from there I don't know, but it was torn out in the early to mid 80s) several years back, Delaware wanted to remove the Henry St. bridge to ease "traffic congestion." With OWU wanting close off Wilmer St altogether (which the hardware store, across the street from OWU, doesn't want) then the need to dismantle that bridge is not as high. And here is the Henry St. bridge/tunnel that Pigboy and myself are discussing.

Send in the White Chocolate Messiah. :-)

Yes Dublin's building code is different than Columbus. But Dublin has a smaller population it has to react to, while Columbus has 800,000+ people (and 160 years of history) it has to work with. That is why Tuttle mall (and the surrounding retail) goes to Columbus. Dublin would of zoned it into something like the strip mall at Franz & US 33 or the Krogers out on Avery-Murfield, just north of US 33.

Westside of Sawmill Rd from Martin Rd north to the county line is in Dublin Corp limits.

Sounds like a cross between an obsticle course and an open air Juke Joint.

When I went to OSU (1999-2002), I knew plenty of students who would take the High St. COTA line from Longs Bookstore to City Center. With Gateway, OSU is hoping those students now will stay around and not go to Tuttle instead.

Hey! I care about Delaware! :wink2: (Not as much as Kilbourne, but more than Columbus) Actually you should try to find copies of the Gazette and/or Dispatch. The big controversy right now is Delaware County's effort to extend Sawmill Parkway from Home Rd north to US 42 (SW of Delaware).

Those people living in New Albany probably pay a lot more taxes than you do. Plus they pay for crap like Columbus's bus system used predominantly by poor people in the city, which depends heavily on subsidies (probably tens of thousands of $ a year per regular rider) to get by. Is that fair? Rich suburbs like New Albany are paying most of the tax dollars that get funneled to welfare programs, and subsidies for crappy urban school districts. Is that fair? :whip: I haven't been to New Albany, but I live outside Dublin, and I will say that the pattern of development in Columbus's suburbs is vastly superior to development within the city limits of Columbus itself. 95% of Columbus is just miles of flat straight roads that meet at right angles at 1 mile intervals, and have ugly strip malls and bland houses/apartment complexes behind them. Ever been to Dublin before? They have built one of the finest communities I have seen in Ohio, or for that matter anywhere in the U.S. The roads are actually curved in Dublin, and they have roundabouts in some places. That breaks up the monotony. Also, there are few strip malls in Dublin. It is very nice. I hear New Albany is the same way, with carefully planned, interesting development. Did you read the article about Easton/New Albany in last Sunday (March 20th) Dispatch? New Albany does not pay anything to Columbus Public. It all goes into New Albany/Plain Local. In fact plenty of the northern suburbian schools cover northern Columbus proper. Worthington built their second HS within Columbus city limits. Polaris $$$ goes to Olentangy Schools, not Columbus. 95% of those flat roads in Columbus that disgust you were built before your Dublin residence was plotted out. That is how people differentiate between urban and suburban. And yes I've been to and through Dublin countless times. It's a little rich for my blood.

Somehow I don't see farmer stands/kiosks meshing well with the clubs/bars along Vine St. Just seems like two different crowds. Plus that map shows more buildings along the northside of Vine St. than I recall seeing just this last week (unless Casto is proposing more buildings along Vine St)

Oooooh! Where (in Cleveland, I'd presume) is this Hungarian Museum?

Someone e-mailed me their comments on one of my Cleveland pages (most likely my "maps of Cleveland" page) earlier this year and refered to Porter as Cleveland's Robert Moses (infamous NYC planner for the uninitiated)

Only if you consider the Republican stronghold of Marion to be full of hillbillies

And then there were none from Ohio. Other than OSU's female b-ball team.

Let's just say I'm not talking about Kentucky.

So I'm rooting for the original OU (not the one out west with the Columbus backcourt :x), the Gangsta-cats, Fighting Quakers, one of the 50 variants of Wildcats (in this case, Villanova), and one of the 30 variants of Tigers (in this case, Louisana St) through next weekend.

Paxson is on the outs? I'd think that everyone would be happy with the Cavs so far.

It's a good day to be a Buckeye (though it sucks that the Lady Bucks lost to Minnesota in the second round of their tourney)

So whose this Gene Smith guy Ohio State just signed as Athletic Director?

It was bad. Traffic on Polaris was almost a standstill (this was on the day before before our Christmas snow/ice storm)

One CD?! I only got 270 to choose from (my own collection). Junior Kimbrough - All Night Long (1995, Fat Possum Records) Passed away in 1997, but played his "trance" blues around Tupolo, Miss for 50 years. You can use "All Night Long" to relax or dance to. CC Adcock - HouseRocker/Eponmous (1994, Island Records) Originally released in 1994, has been re-released as HouseRocker since then. Dirty guitar funk and some witty lyrics (song Kissin' Kouzans contains the chorus line of "Good country loving!"). A wonderful collection of rocking tunes. Tab Benoit - Wetlands (2002 Telarc Records) Louisiana Swamp blues. More straight up blues than fellow Louisianan CC Adcock (see above), includes covers of "I Got Loaded" (1950s drinking song) and Dog Hill (originally a zydeco song, done up on this record as some Louisiana guitar funk). Ironicly, one of the bar bands in Columbus does a cover of Tab Benoit's Let Love Take Control. Honorable mentions to Teeny Tucker's First Class Woman, Buddy Guy's Sweat Tea, Billy Bragg & Wilco covering Woody Gutherie (Mermaid Ave) and any Foo Fighters disk.