Robuu

Last year, I stayed in an airbnb by Shaker Square, intending to use the Rapid to get around for the most part. Really regretted the location choice, as a shutdown that weekend meant I just ended up driving everywhere.

If it were up to me, I would hold off on removing stops on hillsides. Wait until things are ironed out with other stops that are less likely to cause major hardship for people with mobility challenges. No matter how much outreach they try to do, there are going to be people taken off-guard by the removals.

I don't see anyone talking about this, but with Boise State's loss to BYU (and subsequent drop in the rankings), it appears that UC has control of its own destiny in terms of getting a bid in a New Year's Six bowl (Peach, Cotton, or Fiesta since the others have conference ties). SMU is the only G5 team ahead of UC in the rankings, and SMU either remains undefeated and faces UC in the AAC championship game (the winner of which would get the NY6 bid), or they lose a game and drop behind UC in the rankings, leaving UC at the top of the G5. Of course, this is subject to whatever happens when the official rankings come out in a couple weeks. But it looks like this is the case. The offense will need to step up and become more consistent if the Bearcats hope to win out.

Certainly the main function would be for transfers. And it would be more useful to transfer north of the RTC in many cases. I don't think that's a big problem. At a minimum, transfers between TANK and SORTA would still occur in the RTC. I would imagine bus routes downtown being more simplified, so that outbound buses could be grouped in the hub by the streets they use to go north on above 4th. So that, if it's not convenient to get off on the way into the hub (say your inbound bus goes down Plum and your destination is on Sycamore or Main), you can go to the Main Street area and catch any bus heading up Main, which should be pretty frequent given it would be multiple routes. (I'm not sure how the Gov't Square areas are organized.) You might be right that it wouldn't work out, but I think it would be worth looking at as a partial system redesign. All the downtown portions of routes would have to be looked at. I think the big question is whether getting around within downtown could be made faster and easier based on more organized route behavior that has greater coverage from 2nd to McMicken, Central to Broadway.

It wouldn't make sense to have TANK and some Metro buses go to RTC and other Metro buses go to Government Square. The only thing that makes having TANK and SORTA separate be tolerable from a UX perspective is having all (or the vast majority of) connections in one place. That said, I think if there were some tinkering with transit-only lanes (like on 4th Street, with one counter-flow, and on Central and Broadway) it could work. Especially if some signal priority were worked in. I believe there are plans to move the ramp to 75 north to a different street (or add another ramp?) along with the plans for the new bridge, which would help to the extent this plan would be reducing lanes for 75N's feeder street (4th). Most of the intersections directly impacting highway ramps would be avoided since Central and Broadway go under them. There would be various options for north- and south-bound routes through the CBD if everything is no longer funneled to Main and Walnut. Including the possibility that Vine could be turned into a north/south transit corridor which, together with the streetcar, could allow for some crosstown routes to skip the RTC all together since the connection frequency is so high.

^ Right, check my edit. I first misread the "not at intersections" part. Main Street is a good example of the treatments intersections are getting in the urban core these days: https://goo.gl/maps/oufcYqd77dv25TaHA

Not actually true, though. There's a lot of legacy design around Cincinnati, but newer crosswalks are zebra-style, for the most part. Here are a couple examples of mid-block zebra crosswalks: https://goo.gl/maps/HC2beXtoW7hq7KEp9 https://goo.gl/maps/q6pAEY6YPQbKBWU28 Edit: oh, you said NOT located at intersections. I'll search for some intersection ones. Intersections: https://goo.gl/maps/N6qJNrdCuGQvpfXQ6 https://goo.gl/maps/aoFsPrQe9a7JFn1G6 https://goo.gl/maps/VS6fwARZiDxyevFs8

That doesn't "pay tribute to a woman," however, since the Genius of Water was never a real person. I should hope so; else, how would we get more flying pigs?

I guess the "Oggo only" thing was the organizers' attempt to mitigate heavy loads. And somehow they neglected to realize the inevitable rule-breaking caused by having a major pedestrian chokepoint. Or maybe they just didn't emphasize the issue enough to police. They should have allowed bicycles on the main deck. I don't imagine allowing bicycles would have added much in terms of weight. Hopefully no major damage was caused.

^ It's 4 nights long. Granted, Friday and Saturday are likely to be the biggest draws. But the parade should ensure tonight has a bump in attendance over what it would be, and parade attendees are likely to decide they want to see more and come back another day (it's going to be impossible to see everything in one night, let alone a weeknight with a chunk of the time spent watching the parade). I would guess Sunday attendance is pretty light, but if you spread 1.5m over 4 nights that's 375k per night.

Please?

Especially when a bunch of noobs are going to be searching how to buy tickets for Blink.

Ain't no laws when you're drinking Kitty Paws!

Fair enough that that is more recent than I'd been thinking -- I glanced at the Wikipedia page and saw this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTA_Rapid_Transit Anyway, Cincinnati's streetcar is still significantly newer (and what I said is still "technically correct" -- the best kind of correct) so my point still stands. Cincinnati has also been slapped down by the state's unwillingness to fund rail. In fact, the TRAC board changed the rules from underneath the streetcar as it was ending the planning stages in order to deny state funds. It was the city's resolve and support for rail that ensured the line as it exists was actually built.

I don't see how what you've said here is relevant to the comment you replied to. But in this context it's worth noting Cincinnati is the only city in the state to have actually put rails in the ground in decades.

This is a strategy some local developers like to employ, though. Intentionally creating a scenario that urgently needs a remedy (e.g. a massive deficit of hotel rooms accompanied by an eyesore crater where the giant hotel was), then politically attacking anyone who opposes their plan to remedy the issue that was their own creation. The countless manufactured crises and deadlines with the stadium come to mind. The tarps protecting pedestrians from fallen bricks off the Dennison come to mind. The "this deal must be approved right now for this specific developer or the Millennium owners simply will not sell" is already an indication that Smyjunas intends to go this route. Why seek consensus and win-win results when you can just strong-arm (with the aid of the mayor whose campaign you helped fund)?

Maybe we should ask Charlie Winburn to speak with them.

^ Ha! Pretty amazing they spelled Cincinnati right and Columbus wrong.

Voted for all four. And nothing else, in order to not dilute the Ohio votes!

The Daily Cardinal is on there, too, guys.

^ I know this is the streetcar thread, but the park & ride I was referring to was bus service in & out of the basin, as referenced in the article I linked:

^ It looks like they aren't half-assing this, which is great and unexpected. It also appears park & ride is being pushed for getting people into the basin. IDK how successful it is reasonable to expect that to be, but combining that with the free streetcar and the street closures, transit is the background star of this event. Hopefully the news agencies pick up on the P&R emphasis. https://www.wvxu.org/post/cincy-chamber-dont-blink-and-drive

It's a Western Reserve thing. http://ctemissions.com/

If they want unity, why not go broader than city/county and let NKY take the W on the whole music venue thing?

It would be nice if preparing the highway spaghetti to be built over (or under, if necessary) were a part of the Brent Spence project.