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It's not a symbol of fascism and it's not a celebration of Mussolini. Hopefully the rest of council is reasonable about this.

^ Looks like the 2X (the line that goes to CVG) is one of the routes planned for more frequency.

^ I think you misread @jmecklenborg's post. He didn't say the vehicle looked like it weighed 800 lbs.

That might be a desirable outcome, compared to "we absolutely NEED to enact this plan RIGHT NOW because of the crisis we intentionally created!"

It looks to me like New York's population grew by 75k since 2010. Although the estimates do show year-over-year decline since 2015, I'm not sure how relevant that is.

Oh, geez, it was from Elmore and Dreman. I forgot just how nutty that proposal was.

Once Cranley was elected, a ramp from 74 to Central Pkwy at Cincinnati State was the only project for which the city applied for TIGER funding. The funding was denied a couple times.

Really unlikely because most people don't see something nefarious here. It's literally a normal group text that happened to be illegal because one too many people was on it. The fact they didn't use WhatsApp just further shows they didn't realize they were doing anything illegal.

I think people realize this; otherwise the Skyline would be at Clifton & Jefferson, and I don't think anyone says that. Though people might not know specifically that it changes at Brookline, I think they realize it doesn't happen at Clifton Ave. I'd wager there would be more people saying the library is on Ludlow than saying the Skyline is on Jefferson.

Or Northern NJ (thinking Rtes. 3 and 46)

Thanks, this is what I was thinking. The rule, as stated by @thebillshark, leaves room for lots of money being spent on things which actually make the city less transit-friendly (as in your example of widening Glenway), but restricts spending on things which would help transit riders (which basically any pedestrian improvement does).

The steps make bus routes more functional, so this is a shortsighted limitation IMO. I know I have used the bottom portion of the Ohio Avenue Steps to go from the 17 bus to Findlay Market and Rhinegeist.

I wonder if some of the .2% sales tax could be used to preserve and rehab steps and alleys? Many of the steps are signed like streets, so they may technically be considered streets,

3Cexit?

Comparing statistics like this is literally why MSAs and CSAs were made.

What is this Metro thing, and do the other cities have one?

I was in Buenos Aires last week, and it was very interesting to see what is happening in the hot growth areas (particularly the Palermo neighborhood), in relation to parking. It seems like about everywhere they can, developers are putting up tall residential towers in the footprint of older 1-4ish story buildings. These towers invariably get an underground parking garage below them. So while the neighborhood is extremely dense and is getting more dense, with a subway and a number and frequency of bus lines that was head-spinning, as well as an exceptionally vibrant street life, private parking accommodation was a very high priority. The driving culture was correspondingly New World, too, with motorists showing no regard for pedestrians at unsignalized crosswalks, etc. The blocks are pretty short and the grid network redundant enough, I guess, that there wasn't perpetual gridlock. And I suppose there is a bit of an economic restriction based on the number of people that can afford these parking spaces. But the paradox of it is fascinating. Here are a couple examples of what this looks like: https://www.google.com/maps/@-34.5843578,-58.4257009,3a,90y,121.32h,88.2t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sGFerDs6I0bkRUmD1o5IeGw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 https://www.google.com/maps/@-34.5872721,-58.4232439,3a,75y,53.2h,90.06t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sGl1jKlHp89fSGUuEndopMg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

You can do stuff like this, but it doesn't exactly create an equivalent scenario. You'll have people in the Cleveland boundary that live ~7 miles from Downtown. which is different than only having people living 5 miles from another Downtown from an accessibility perspective (or infrastructure perspective, etc.); we're talking 40% more distance. Plus, to the extent that development might be more concentrated specifically because of the natural boundary, it could be "cheating."

I would be interested to hear a contrarian view to this, The lesson seems pretty cut-and-dried that the titans of the new economy are, by-and-large, only going to look at high-amenity, high-tax cities to locate their high-paying jobs. Low taxes can get you jobs, but primarily only low-wage jobs, which hardly seems like a formula for a healthy local economy.

In my experience, "continental" is most often used as a means of separating the British Isles (including Ireland) from the rest of Europe. The term excludes other islands as well, but the British Isles are the most populous and economically significant part of Europe which isn't part of continental Europe.

I would guess a light rail proposal would require a new ballot measure, anyhow. So it's probably not a big deal. It does create government inefficiency and red-tape, though. Like the "divorce" also does.

The first phase of the terminal improvements, redesigning the facade and pick-up/drop-off area, looks great. I especially like the flattened curb/bollard approach, so it's easy to roll a suitcase between the driveway and sidewalk. Would be cool if the city would explore a similar design for 5th Street in the Oregon and/or St. Anne's Hill (with appropriately tasteful bollards for those areas). Cincinnati did that on Short Vine, but peculiarly left the street corners raised. (And their choice of bollards is rather questionable, bit I digress.)

Not that it matters to the rest of what you said, but Ireland is not considered "continental Europe." I guess you could consider it "more continental" than Iceland, which is my best guess at what you were thinking.

In a neighborhood with height restrictions, it's easy to see how building an underground garage could be more economical in the long run. It enables building more rentable/marketable space above the garage. Or, as @jmecklenborg said, it enables building affordable/low-income housing on land already publicly-owned.