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Well, that's a bit of a stretch to say no hill in the entire country. https://goo.gl/maps/K5YPqSVobTCWNrNg7 Additionally, people who aren't students do buy nicer bikes, and ebikes are gaining popularity there, especially among elderly folks and people with long commutes. https://energyindemand.com/2019/03/02/e-bikes-now-outsell-standard-bicycles-in-netherlands/

In London, there are daily and weekly caps on how much you pay. So if you spend enough for a day or week pass, you won't pay anything each subsequent time you tap during that day/week.

For whatever reason, people aren't very into stealing components in the Netherlands. No one ever locks up their seat, for example. Whereas in NYC anything that's not locked down is going to get stripped off. But it does seem that the student mentality is somewhat similar to what you're proposing. They get their (cheap) bike stolen, and proceed to buy someone else's stolen bike off a junkie. If you're a student, you know exactly where to go to buy bikes from junkies.

Does anyone know what kind of security features there are for batteries on ebikes? It's an expensive component that would make me nervous to leave unattended if it couldn't be locked on. And carrying one around sounds annoying at best, especially when we're talking a $1k+ investment for the bike.

This is why I haven't bought an electric bike. The longer you wait, the cheaper it will be for a better bike. I'm sure it would extend the range I'm willing to go on a regular basis, but not by that much since Dayton is pretty flat. If I lived in Cincinnati, I think I'd have one already.

He emphasized that his tweet was "specifically about income tax," fwiw.

I would encourage city residents to write to (at least) Landsman and Sittenfeld, encouraging them to rethink this. And maybe to Seelbach to thank him for bringing it up and to not just let it go.

? The "divorce" makes no sense from any angle. It costs money that doesn't need to be spent. It only serves as a barrier for integrating regional transit service. And it won't change anyone's view on the bus sales tax.

Are SORTA monthly passes going to stop working on the streetcar? That's been the main angle of "bus money pays for the streetcar" that I've seen, because all that money is in one pool and a portion is given to the streetcar based on the portion of monthly pass rides that are streetcar rides...or that's how I understand it.

Silicon Valley is interesting, because it's actively trying to make products that would in the aggregate undermine its own economy. If the ultimate goal of telecommuting tech (which a lot of tech is, either implicitly or explicitly) is achieved, there will be no reason for tech companies to geographically concentrate.

Huh, that's impressive. I saw a small bit of it Friday night when I was down with family members, and walking on sidewalks was really slow-going. Went back Saturday with my bike and saw most of everything. This year, it will probably be less congested because it will cover more distance. But then it will be harder to walk the whole thing for the same reason.

You're not kidding. The only reason I was able to see most of Blink 2017 was because I brought my bike down. The streets were completely congested with cars and the sidewalks were almost completely congested with people. Filtering between lanes of stopped cars was the only way to get around reasonably quickly. I don't know how else you could get from Findlay to the Banks (and see stuff in between) during one night of the festival.

Fair point. I don't really think they are garbage (at least not compared to others in other cities), but they create unnecessary friction that's exacerbated with crowds.

The streetcar lanes should be transit-only for Blink, with police either riding the streetcar or on bikes (or both) to enforce. I don't know if making it free would do much good, at least at night when the festival is going on, but I don't see how it would do any harm either. I expect the streetcar will be packed to the brim, regardless.

Are you joking? Lol. Can you imagine trying to hold meetings while shouting over white noise? Not to mention at high enough decibels the white noise would damage hearing.

Maybe the mayor's grandson was the videographer.

"The video was filmed in two parts, including a segment with cleveland.com’s Robert Higgs." https://www.cleveland.com/metro/2019/09/mayor-frank-jackson-denies-any-involvement-in-assault-homicide-investigations-of-grandson.html

I'm not mad, I said it was a minor gripe. But the gripe is this, that these are somehow "proper" terms. When they're EPL terms. If tennis had a history of being played in the States with terms like "tied" and scores like 3-1, then suddenly people started saying "love" and using 45-15, yeah, it would probably bother me. But as long as I've known the sport it's been love/45-15. Was there a time before that? Anyhow, this is how language evolves. And probably what you're calling the "proper" terms will become the only terms, eventually. C'est la vie. I would just personally prefer it if we could stick with our Americanisms. Those feel more authentic to me than chasing "proper" terms. Right, but Americans have traditionally only used soccer. But suddenly we have "Football Club Cincinnati" -- which is silly. That's all I'm saying, really. I'm fully aware it's a personal preference.

^ It's not even "foreign fans" though, really, since most of them don't speak English as a native language. It's an attempt to emulate EPL fandom, I guess. And the MLS has picked it up as a marketing tactic. God forbid soccer games be played on a field and end zero-zero. We need football fixtures played on a pitch ending nil-nil. Edit: To me, it's a bit like if Cincinnati stopped using the word "chili" for its famous dish. I'd prefer to embrace the cultural quirk rather than chase some contrived notion of what is linguistically authentic.

^ I don't mind "supporters" that much, but using the word "football" bothers me to some degree. There's nothing wrong with the fact that in the USA we call it "soccer" and use "football" for something else. It seems people feel as though they're creating an in-group of worldly sophisticates by shunning the term "soccer". Similar with using the term "nil" for "zero". Small gripe, but why do we have to shed our American identity as we increase our participation in, ahem, soccer?

And midway up: https://goo.gl/maps/mKkuQJcL41JZk6bD7

^ I've read reviews of the book and outlines of the author's arguments. I feel like more time spent on it would be wasted.

^^ That map is really dumb. Pittsburgh is smack in the middle of Appalachia, and gets excluded. But then the majority of TEXAS is "Greater Appalachia"? It's honestly one of the worst attempts at this region-drawing that I've seen.

Cleveland is more like Connecticut

The liars are going to lie, regardless. No sense in trying to appease them,