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Luckily there is a 0% chance he wins.

Your logic doesn't make sense. If GOP voters are gradually coming around to early voting there would be more of them so far in 2022 than in 2018 and it is very strikingly the opposite.

I love Louisville. But outside of the derby, I think its tourism draw is limited to couple hundred miles. Not really the kind of national draw that Nashville has. But that's kind of a non sequitur. I'm not saying that their convention center isn't a net positive, or worthwhile. Just that a city's reputation doesn't really revolve around the size of its convention center.

Is it? Harrisburg, Reno, Tulsa, and Louisville are on that list. I don't think it has given them any type of big city clout.

I'm having a hard time understanding the complaints about corporate sponsorships. How on earth would you put on an event at this scale and make it FREE without those sponsorships? That is totally unrealistic.

I'm not anti-car. I own one. I drive it when I need to. But there is a time and a place for them to be prioritized. We have over-prioritized them in our urban core for too long. We need to improve safety and accessibility for people in public transit, on foot, on bicycles, and on other micro-mobility options. That is how we grow our economy and make our community safer at the same time.

This is absolutely needed too. And like 50 other street segments downtown.

You're showing that you are only down here during big events. I'm down here every day. Most days there is very little traffic most of the day and cars DO absolutely move at high speeds. I've seen several peds almost get taken out. I've almost been hit myself. You're just flat out wrong here.

A chokepoint? I'm there everyday and it is absolutely not a chokepoint. There is never any traffic backup there.

We are literally doing this right now. Where you been?

This sounds like a very specific to you problem and not a good reason to spend billions of dollars to widen a highway through a rural area. I drive from Cbus to Cincy and back a lot and, while slow drivers can be annoying, there really isn't "traffic" in the way we usually use that term to refer to actual slowdowns due to volume.

I'm not sure why you responded to me because my post had nothing to do with high speed rail. But this bit of your response, in particular is just so wrong. The largest employment zip code in the state is Downtown Cincinnati (45202), followed by Downtown Columbus (43215), and Ohio State (45210). In terms of net commuters, those three are tops again, 4th is Blue Ash/Montgomery (45242), 5th is Downtown Cleveland (44115), 6th is Cleveland Clinic (44195), and 7th is Downtown Cleveland again (44114). So 6 of the top 7 are on the 3C route and the only one that isn't would be very close to the Sharonville stop. A high speed rail connection would serve our job centers very well. Further, I don't know about Cbus and CLE, but the fastest growing Census Tract in the City of Cincinnati from a residential standpoint this past decade was Downtown Cincinnati.

Honest question, is having to do 55 mph for 5-10 miles instead of 70 mph for that stretch really what is holding us back economically? Because we're talking about a huge expense to shave a few minutes off the drive to Cbus.

Can't imagine the mindset of someone (i.e. the Pendleton Community Council president) who thinks the first photo was better.

I think your math is off. The Pittsburgh park is 3 acres. Our two middle caps would be 2 acres each. Total project for FWW would be 5.65 acres. Assuming $296/sqft you get about $73 million for our project. The PGH park also was bid out before 2020. $73 million in 2019 would be $85 million in 2022. Getting pretty close.

Is there a reason you wouldn't prefer to just put the bus transit center in the actual riverfront transit center?

This is right. 100 years ago my neighborhood was a mix of beautiful, big brick row houses and flimsy shotgun shacks. Guess which ones survived?

I believe this is Marshall to Ludlow. But they have a separate plan to extend from Plum to Eggleston.

The governor polling was actually very good too. The polling average was DeWine +1.5. DeWine won by 3.7. A miss of 2.2, but got the winner right.

Why do you think this? The Senate polling in 2018 was spot on.

I would imagine with a capped FWW we'd see development pressure on the 3rd street lots fronting it so a lot of new tax revenue from that development. Not sure it is worth the extra cost to build 4 story buildings on the caps themselves. It would be different if you could go higher.

It really did focus on these people though, especially with the extra $10k for Pell recipients and the restructured IBR. They definitely tailored it toward low-income and people who never got a degree.

We're not there yet, but this will be the case in 10 years, especially if Cincy and Columbus keep growing and getting bluer.

Unfortunately, we can't celebrate yet. Margy Waller is coming for it.

It's funny how the NIMBYs proclaimed this the "Wasson Tower" and the name stuck, even though it is very clearly not a tower lol. They should be embarrassed now that everyone can see that it is not that tall at all.