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You could do some great lighting on that roof.

The Enquirer and WLW have done more damage to Cincinnati than a lot of real estate developers

Cincinnati Edition had Mika Owens, Chris Westrich, a person from the developer, and a representative of Save Hyde Park Square on the show yesterday or the day before. It's on their podcast if you want to listen to it. I came away thinking that the Save Hyde Park Square crew is a bunch of white NIMBYs and I'm sticking by that. The people in HP have been given ample opportunity to weigh in on a private development and are still trying to torpedo this thing. This is behavior similar to COAST, and it seems to me that the plan is to get a ballot measure that would sabotage the ability of the city council to work with developers city-wide. It would be so Cincinnati to have such a ballot measure that is designed to hamper the city's growth. It'll be the streetcar ballot initiatives all over again.

Thanks. That answered my question. Sorry for the confusion.

So when will the BRT start construction/roll out?

Is this for the entire Cooridor ID program that includes the 3C+D line and/or any of the lines that aren't directly benefiting Northern Ohio?

When I worked at the University of Utah, your employee/student ID was also a transit tap card. I never had to pay for transit. I wish UC had something like that for students and with BRT running right by campus, maybe that's something to explore

Emailed and called Louis Blessing yesterday as well

Increasing costs by increments of .10 seems like a hassle for people who pay with cash.

This thing is going to get held up for years, which is probably the community council's goal. Meanwhile, Hyde Park will have a lovely strip mall style building and beautiful parking spaces, and other community councils will use this as an example of a way to stall development all around the city.

That makes sense. Cincinnati has a lot more urban infrastructure already in place compared to Columbus.

Me: I have a point to make about how community councils can derail projects if they try. I have 52 neighborhoods to choose from but a limited time. I know, I'll just type the first two that come to mind. You: HOW DARE YOU YOU IGNORANT CHURL!! PICK ANOTHER NEIGHBORHOOD FOR YOUR POINT!!! YOU RAVENOUS CUR!!!!

You pick two random neighborhoods to make a point on how it's a bad idea to allow community councils to derail development and everyone jumps down your throat for choosing the "wrong" neighborhoods. Jeez.

We literally had to vote for the streetcar twice. I can 100% see some community council in a place like Northside or Oakley pitching a fit over something like a BRT station or streetcar expansion. It doesn't matter to them that it would be built in public RoW

This is my big fear. Sure, city council isn't full of people who are eager to do anything at all but I would hate to see a few seats go over to NIMBYs that would try to overturn things like Connected Communities or try to derail any other big projects that the city desperately needs.