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I went to see it at CMA in July, it was great.

I'm sure I've ridden FireHawk, but I can't remember it. Vortex is basically obsolete at this point, IMO. Replaced with something taller and smoother, I wouldn't miss Vortex. Speaking of smoother, I like the concept of Flight of Fear but I can barely handle riding it because it's headache-inducing. Replace it with a similar but significantly smoother ride and it'd be great. Speaking of smoothness in coasters, though, I find the smoothness of Mystic Timbers and similar new woodies kind of unsettling. Part of the thrill of a wooden coaster like the Beast or the Racer is feeling like the damn thing is so rickety you just have to put faith in the designers and maintenance crew that you won't go flying off the track. When everything feels so controlled but the overall features aren't pushing the envelope it just feels like something is missing. Please, either frighten me or give me unique sensations. Hoping the rumored giga coaster delivers.

Dayton took a big step away from this type of service when moving the Greyhound station to Trotwood. I don't know what the usage patterns are, but personally my quality of life would be greatly improved had the station remained downtown. Living car-free in Dayton is difficult enough without that bizarre configuration. (Yes, I realize Greyhound's focus isn't commuters. Which is why I said they merely took a step away. Non-commuters could be part of the demand for the route, depending on times/frequencies.)

Looks like Fiona's got some competition

Because Cleveland and Akron are already in the same CSA but Cincy and Dayton aren't. Edit: had page loaded before ColDay's reply, lol.

I'm certainly no expert on Cleveland, but I was there for a few days recently, and Tremont was a neighborhood that really impressed me and is not on your list. The only thing it really lacks, if you're planning to own a car for grocery shopping and odd errands, is a rail connection.

I don't think that's true. Providing that we're talking about GDP, the past year Cincinnati maintained Ohio's biggest economy. Maybe it's over the past 3 years or something. I definitely remember reading semi-recently that Cincy had become the top economy. This article says Columbus was the biggest prior to Cleveland taking over: https://www.cincinnati.com/story/money/2018/09/18/cincinnatis-economy-hits-138-b-beats-us-growth/1346290002/ Regardless, they're all really close in size and the ups and downs lead to a lot of jockeying. It's pretty amazing how close they are.

^^ Funny how it's a bunch of back and forth for biggest economy in the state. Each of the 3C's has held this title within the past year, IIRC.

The Dock didn't close for business reasons, but yes it was another loss. Though Main Event is still around, isn't it? It certainly was a short period of time during which the Dock, Simon Says, On Broadway, Shooters, the Subway, and the Pink Pyramid closed. Probably forgetting at least one more. And that's just in the CBD.

New Jersey bars close at 1 on weeknights and 3 on weekends.

The question is, how can this rhetoric, thoroughly dishonest as it is, be combated when the explanation requires so many words but the factual distortion requires so few? I guess if it's a really small amount of farebox recovery, monthly passholders could just be given free rides and it wouldn't make a big difference, and the issue could be revisited at a later date. At which point the rhetorical upper-hand would be on the side of those complaining about passholders riding for free. I was just in Seattle last week, and I could not for the life of me figure out how to get a day pass for anything but the streetcars. Their transit system is the most difficult to figure out that I've ever experienced, in terms of both fares and navigation (so hard to find useful maps). Vancouver's was a breeze, by comparison.

Even classified info is already protected by something stronger than a NDA -- criminal law.

It's my understanding that monthly passholders (probably day-passholders, also) pay into a pool, from which an amount proportionate to the usage of the pass goes to either the bus system or the streetcar. Now, that's the "fairest" way to do this, but it's slightly nuanced and requires more words to get across than saying "money from monthly pass bus users goes to the streetcar" or "only streetcar riders pay for the streetcar." Strictly speaking, neither passholders using the streetcar nor passholders not using the streetcar pay for bus operations or streetcar operations. (They pay into this pool, which then is distributed.) Thus the room for COAST-types to play semantic games.

My guess is they've coordinated with specific Butler County businesses that hire workers that don't (always) have access to cars, and the timing of the trips is aligned with shifts at those places. With the idea that they'll have a larger pool of potential workers if they're linked to SORTA and GDRTA. I don't suppose anyone is imagining this to be for people commuting between Cincy and Dayton. It's unlikely BCRTA would bother spending money doing that, anyway, as it wouldn't serve businesses or residents of Butler Co.

Wonder how this will compare to Michoacana.

I started my freshman year at UC a week or so later. I'd been up most of the night and, like ColDay, was sleeping while all the stuff was going down. I was living at my parents' house, still, and my dad knocked on my room door and told me about the WTC towers being hit and the Pentagon. I was very disoriented and muttered some expletives and asked if WW3 had begun. Went out to the living room and watched the TV coverage the rest of the day, including watching the towers fall. A year prior, I'd gone to NYC to move my brother into his dorm in Brooklyn. I recall waiting in the moving van for my bro to go pee at the WTC mall, looking up at the towers, before crossing the Manhattan Bridge after getting off the highway and going through the Holland Tunnel. With that semi-fresh in mind, I could sort of picture the chaos and panic at the ground level while watching the buildings burn. When Bush started vowing to chase the terrorists, my fears greatly increased of a draft starting since I'd just registered with Selective Service. I certainly did start to receive a lot of phone calls from recruiters, which I tried to avoid (Caller ID had just started to receive wide adoption). Finally, I spoke to one and told him what you were not supposed to ask or tell about, and I was astonished that it worked and I never received another call. It's weird to think that next year is the 18th anniversary of the attack, as I was 18 when it happened. Soon I'll have lived more than half my life post-9/11. I'm thankful I was able to spend as many years as I did in the pre-9/11 world, and that I'm old enough to remember it. May none of us see another event so earth-shattering.

Cincinnati is in the finals for the "Sorriest Bus Stop" 2018 contest, pitted against Vancouver. https://usa.streetsblog.org/2018/09/11/this-is-it-sorriest-bus-stops-contest-final-pits-cincinnati-vs-vancouver/ Funny enough, I was just in Vancouver for the first time last week. Great city with impressive transit.

The Fire Blocks will basically connect the existing entertainment & shopping areas of downtown into more of a cohesive whole, along with adding residential units. It's on the eastern side of downtown, near the Oregon District, which of course is the German Village/Ohio City/Over-the-Rhine of Dayton. The Arcade is on the west side of downtown (maybe "central" is a better way to put it, but it's west of Main Street), where there isn't a whole lot going on outside of offices. It's kind of like if there were a massive mixed-use development on Plum by Cincinnati's City Hall. So it's that, but it's also THE significant historic building in Dayton's downtown, which has sat vacant for decades. The projects are separated by a couple blocks of Third Street, which is the main east-west street through the core of downtown.

It seems like most of the Republicans I know are planning to vote for Sherrod and Aftab, or whomever the D running for Representative is in their district, because they aren't happy with how R's have been unwilling to check Trump. But they're mostly sticking to the party line in other races. Aside from those who appear to be transitioning out of the party altogether, feeling like it left them behind.

That's an interesting looking microphone the woman in the video has.

I think we've stumbled across Cincinnati's elusive brand. Hooptie City! For real, though, I would have to visit a place if this were such a big thing there. It sounds like a sight to behold.

Just checked again. Three articles about the fake streetcar mold are still up. Zero stories about the real mold at UC.

It would be cool if someone did a City Flea-type thing in the median on Court. Like on Westerstraat in Amsterdam:

While there are chains of custody and people purchase the land they use, the initial ownership of any parcel was made when someone arbitrarily claimed it as theirs and defended that claim with a (usually implied) threat of (personal or state) violence. No one created the land; no one brought it into being. This makes land ownership quite different than the ownership of most other things, which are initially owned by the person who makes them or someone who commissions the maker.

I, for one, welcome our Edison bulb overlords. Whatever "cool" city innovation happens will quickly be available to us in Ohio at a discounted rate.