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Constantly expanding, repairing, and building roles keeps a lot of people employed, paid for by tax dollars it amounts to income redistribution that doesn't undermine the work ethic of the recipients. It's essentially public works only privatized. It also keeps people in the construction business and keeps their skills intact while maintaining a market for construction materials. In the event of a disaster we can react quickly. It's still the government "picking winners", and in a way that has well-understood negative externalities -- economic, environmental, public health. These may have been written off as unintended consequences years ago, but at this point either the subsidies should be cut off or directed a new way. We should know better.

Can someone tell me the difference between crossovers and station wagons?

Kinda outside-the-box, but I wonder if the Terrace Plaza building isn't too narrow for the ballet to use. It's just about a block from the Aronoff.

I saw one of those yesterday! Guess it was Bus 1404. It was rolling west on 3rd Street by Arepas & Co.

Thanks very much to whichever admin created this thread and moved the posts! :)

^ I didn't mean to defend it.

Seriously? I'm all for trying to save the large building at the corner of W 14th and Central since it doesn't seem like it will be in the way of the stadium. But asking them to pay to move these two small buildings? That would be a pretty ridiculous request. Well, the CBA is supposed to help mitigate damage done to the community by the development. Part of that damage is demolition of historic structures. Moving them would be a way to mitigate that loss. All I said is it would be nice.

Looks like for the green bars, each tick on the x-axis is 2%. For red bars, it's 2 million passengers. It's kind of weird, but with the numbers it's comprehensible.

Is there any evidence COAST received money from the Koch brothers during the Cincinnati streetcar fight?

Would be nice if the CBA included moving these historic buildings. https://www.google.com/maps/@39.1112957,-84.5221149,3a,75y,129.52h,103.05t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sTPEN-bNKwhWoHEOHCernoA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

Coseau, these shots are great! Could you maybe sometime compile them into a thread of their own? I'd love to be able to link to it without sending people to the "Random Photos" thread. They're definitely deserving of their own thread. New item on my bucket list: visit Mt. Adams on a foggy day.

Gotta agree with this. The "someone I want to have a beer with" thing does not explain Trump's appeal. Kasich, as stiff as he is, checks off that box much better than Trump or Clinton. Of the main contenders in the 2016 race, Bernie would be the top guy to meet for a beer.

Can someone recommend a BrewDog beer to me that will help me understand the hype? I most like sours and IPAs. I've had Elvis Juice, hated it; and Punk IPA, it's fine but really generic IMO. I'm open to other styles, though white ales and Belgians are my least favorite.

What's weird about that is, yes, that was great reporting. But they almost never do anything else that deep. Why not? Edit: I had loaded the page before ryanlammi[/member] posted. That's exactly what I'm talking about, it's like a once-a-year thing.

I'm very disappointed that the West End community was not sufficiently engaged by Berding and FCC, but instead a cursory CBA was pushed through at the last minute. https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2018/04/16/expert-pans-key-part-of-fc-cincinnati-stadium.html It's something of a moot point now, I guess, but needs to kept in mind in the future. I'm trying to get over it and just hope things work out for the best, for the benefit of the West End and the vibrancy of the city.

I'll go with... Amsterdam Copenhagen Basel Cincinnati London I'm not generally enamored with Tier-1 or American cities.

Which is why I said "a Cleveland built at the density of Midtown Manhattan" and not "a Cleveland built at the density of NYC"

I'm more thinking of affordable units spread out across buildings, like what might come out of a successful inclusionary zoning policy. So affordable units in a building would be functionally subsidized by market rate units. Definitely true that construction financing becomes more complicated, and that is a common critique of inclusionary zoning. As for reducing the footprint, it's a priori true that a Cleveland built at the density of Midtown Manhattan would have a smaller footprint than a Cleveland with no skyscrapers. I'm just examining the capabilities of skyscrapers at that level of abstraction: skyscrapers hold more people and businesses per square foot of land area; extend that out to many skyscrapers over square miles, and you can have more city in a smaller footprint.

If you look around Cleveland, you will find that two-story wooden structures are just as vulnerable. Economic shifts sink all boats, so to speak. Your economic worry is a genuine concern; the style of the architecture is an independent variable. True, but someone on a middle class salary with pluck and gumption can bring a two story structure back from the dead. Not so with a skyscraper. It’s more so about scale than style. A two-story structure. That's just one parcel of land. Equivalent to a single condo in a skyscraper. Even if a skyscraper totally deteriorates to the point it must come down, that is one parcel of land. As opposed to the two-story equivalent of space, which is a whole block or more of decay. I think there are a couple things which skyscrapers excel at, which you can't replicate with a height-restricted city. One is somewhat theoretical: keeping housing affordable. This is hard to prove, because 1) it's impossible to say what the rent would be in, say, Midtown Manhattan, without the high-rise residential buildings, and 2) there just aren't many or any examples of cities where there's an abundance of low-to-mid-end apartments in skyscrapers. Maybe in Asia there are, but North America has had super weird urban migration and construction patterns which has lead to alternating gluts and dearths of neighborhood housing supplies. And South America has such income disparity that talking of lower-middle or middle income classes (and hence housing for them) doesn't compute in the same way or at all. The second thing is just limiting the footprint of a city, which has major environmental benefits. It also has economic benefits, since less infrastructure needs to be bought and maintained per capita. Basically, a skyscraper city is more efficient.

As well as access to a denser number of rubes as well as things to steal. You're painting with too broad a brush, but for some people these may be considered amenities.

You can't just stop people from existing; they have to live somewhere. Homeless people want to live in a dense, urban area the same reason we do: a concentration of amenities, opportunities, and community.

I put chicane in quotes in my OP for a reason; I just meant shifting the lane. And, yes, paint-only would probably not work well. If left-turning cars are a problem preventing permanent parking lanes (an issue which was expressed), this would be a viable solution assuming it's well-executed. Too often, problems lie in the execution, and then people conclude there is a problem with the concept. The lane shifting could be as gradual as to be almost imperceptible, or as sharp as buses can handle if speeding is perceived to be a problem in a given location.

Not sure what "chicane" means, but I think I envision what you're saying (with the travel lanes moving as necessary to allow for center turn lane when needed), and that's what I had in mind. Do you know of any examples of this kind of road configuration. I agree it's a long shot, but I'm just genuinely interested in what would be the best fit for this street. A chicane is basically an obstruction which makes a lane shift. I think I've seen this done in the UK for the creation of a turn lane (right turn, due to driving on the opposite side), but I can't find an example with a quick look. Basically anything which creates the scenario in my (very crude) picture below. (Obviously, the geometry would have to factor in buses, so more gradual shifting than in my picture.) Ideally, there would be more than paint where the yellow hash is. So something more along the lines of this. The closest example I can think of in Cincinnati, which is quite different but affords some precedent, is at Clifton & McAlpin, where the through lane shifts to make a right turn lane. It's done in a way which is not intended to calm traffic, though.

Kucinich has been all over Fox News defending Trump. Seems like he would have potential to bring the Obama voters who went for Trump back into the D column. I wouldn't count him out as a legitimate contender in a general election.

Good luck getting DOTE to implement it, but you could "chicane" the through lane into the parking lane and have the through lane become a left turn lane, wherever left turns could be a problem. Bumpouts at midblock crossings, with the pedestrian-crossing "paddles" like have been installed by Ziegler Park. Bumpouts where parking lanes end and bus stops begin.