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Finished Northside Transit Center 10/6:

I also suggested that! Great minds haha

Hogan killed the Red Line in Baltimore though.

According to latest Census estimates, they've lost about 2% this decade. That is in comparison to about 18% last decade. But they've gained a couple thousand people since 2016. So if the ACS estimates are accurate they seem to have bottomed out and are seeing slow growth.

Unfortunately, Camac's wooden blocks were paved over in 2015. But there are plans to uncover and restore them next year. If anyone makes a trip to Philly I highly recommend walking Camac Street from Walnut to Lombard. This quarter mile stretch is like taking a walk back in time. It is one of my favorite places in Center City. The other small streets in this part of town are awesome too. When I first moved to Philly I delighted in discovering new ones. They are like a hidden world.

Business Courier recently reported that the equivalent of THREE Great American Towers has been converted from office to residential or hotel since 2012.

Something like these screens on East Market in Philly would be awesome:

When I went to OU students could ride Athens Transit for free and the university pushed it. I knew lots of people who regularly used it. I would walk to class from my apartment when it was nice, but in the winter I'd take the bus. There were always several other people waiting at my stop.

This isn't completely true. The MetroPlus route has limited hours and frequency. Despite that it has one of the highest number of riders per service hour in the entire system. It also has the highest farebox recovery rate.

So happy to see this! I walked by that vacant lot and imagined what could be so many times haha.

9/23

PLK introduced themselves to the Northside Community Council last night. They have acquired the corner lot at Blue Rock and Hamilton, as well as two other lots nearby. They are seeking public input on what people would like to see. They have a Facebook page with a link to a survey. Sounds like they are going to do mixed-use. They mentioned that they'd like to make a spot for Apple Street Market at the corner of Blue Rock and Hamilton but they aren't sure they can make it work, so no promises. They said something along the lines of, if Apple Street could take a smaller footprint it'd be easier to do. But the larger footprint will be hard to fit with parking and everything. Would love to see that come to fruition and also hoping they'll maximize the number of units. GO BIG OR GO HOME! https://www.facebook.com/PLKNorthside/

No. Tons of people live in Clifton Heights and could bike from their house to Clifton Gaslight and vice versa. And then, I know this is crazy, but you build more protected bike lanes. If they added a protected bike lane on Ludlow my wife could bike from our house to UC and Clifton Heights. That's the whole point. You build a whole network, like Philadelphia, but you have to start somewhere. Rome wasn't built in a day. I don't want to put the onus on everyone to take up biking as a serious hobby. That's not the point. The point is to make it easy for bikes to supplant short auto trips for everyone! That's what happens in cities that invest in this stuff. You can take the whole of the data and see that clearly, or you can bitch and complain about people who aren't as serious as you about biking. I think you'd rather scream at the clouds than see things improve.

This isn't for you. You're a MAMIL. Middle Aged Man in Lycra. This is to entice more casual riders and get people out of their cars. Most people would never EVER consider biking on Clifton as it exists. But a two-way protected bike lane gets them there. Where I used to live in Philly, there are bike lanes on all the major arteries. My wife would grab a bikeshare bike with me all the time when we were going out. It was easy and fun. She has never ridden a bike on the street in all the time we've lived in Cincinnati. Not coincidentally, Philly consistently ranks near the top for bike commuters per capita.

Not comedy. The realty company was named after the neighborhood and the ballpark was given the same name to promote the realty company.

Good points all around. I still disagree. I'm fine with the city having an advantage in this respect. Again, I'd point to all the other boards and commissions where the city gets the shaft. The city having extra representation on the SORTA board (but still less than they did pre-sales tax) seem like something that isn't that big a deal to me.

Wait, I'm completely ok with these consequences and it is exactly what I expected. I didn't expect the county to get to appoint all the members. So we have one person on a message board that you read who is not happy with the make up of the new board and you view it as some kind of confirmation? Weird.

But what percentage of Metro riders live in the city? What percentage of the route miles are in the city? What percentage of vehicle time is in the city? All just as relevant as total population. Plus, so many other local arrangements are bad for the city, why can't we let them have this one? If we're going to be mad about the city being overrepresented on the SORTA board, let's take a look at the OKI board too. The city, and Hamilton County, are both WAYYYY underrepresented on that board, to an insane degree. The city makes up like 15% of the OKI population and only has less than 2% of the seats on the board.

Fenway was a brand too. Fenway Realty Co.

I don't know if this is what they were thinking but I certainly think it is correct. SORTA owns a lot of tax-exempt facilities in the city. City residents are the core of the user base. And city residents have invested in the system for generations. They deserve extra say.

I'm not familiar with this. Tell me more!

This. My friends in Cleveland know who Whaley is. None of them know who the mayor of Cincinnati is.

This is absolutely correct. Everyone on my block is like "oh sure, it's great for our property values that prices are going up, but we are very much concerned about affordability in the neighborhood." And it's completely sincere. I've lived in lots of "liberal" neighborhoods in different cities in multiple states. But I've never lived in a neighborhood that walks the walk the way Northside does.

You have to look at the Zestimate range. The smaller it is, the more sure they are about its accuracy. The study said that the ranges were pretty accurate. But some of the ranges are very large.

I lived in four different places in college (two were dorm rooms), a place in grad school, and three different places in my 20s after grad school. I lived in four different cities in three states during that time. I loved moving around. But now that we own a house, I can't imagine wanting to move again. It's big enough for us and we love the neighborhood. If we ever move again, we're going to miss this house a lot.