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Yeah there's a lot of sensationalism being floated around about this, but for any work that is collaborative and you are on a team, nothing beats face to face in the office. There will always be a need for office space. Maybe this results in 1 or 2 days from home being widely adopted, and office space will need to be more flexible, but there will have to be dedicated days in the office for most office jobs.

Cranley's right, it isn't fair. Let's make the buses free as well.

With the completion of the FCC stadium and the resurgence of our museum center (and hopefully some increased Amtrak frequency down the road), I could see a Casino-West End-Union Terminal route expansion being prioritized over the UC connection. The route up Vine is going to be expensive, or the alternative route up McMicken will be unnecessarily long. The West End route would be much cheaper. And while, yes, connecting our jobs hub and students to downtown is more important, I think the politicians will take the easier improvement over something tougher to sell with a higher price tag. This rides on PG winning mayor + Pastor and/or another Gang of 5 being in office the next 4-8 years.

This is what I wanted explored as well. Way too many chips are being put on the convention renovation and the revenue it is projected to bring in. I find The Millennium good-ugly and it is perfectly set up for "workforce" housing. Of course, Cranley had already given Vandercar free money to tear down and find a builder and forced the county's hand before anyone had a chance to talk about it.

It depends. I'm assuming that most are willing to bike if the commute is no more than double in time (door to door) and is pleasant (protected bike lanes, trails). Another factor is parking cost if you work downtown. I think bike commuting has potential in Cincinnati along the main routes "planned" in the CROWN network, the entire East side of the city will soon have fairly decent bike commuting options once the CROWN is done. Like the bus routes though, the planned bike routes are really only efficient at getting you to UC or Downtown.

This isn't necessarily true at all. Having less suburban visitors and office workers is causing the depressing look of things downtown. Things will be fine if (fingers-crossed) COVID fades into memory next year.

AND they are studying a re-do of the Liberty Way exit that just got completed a decade ago.

Of all the things you've said on this forum, this is the most disgusting ? I grew up on canned spinach, and would puke at the thought of eating it ever again. Fresh is so much better and that's an objective fact.

Seeing this statistic laid out like this, then realizing that Walnut is 3.5 lanes of one-way vehicle traffic makes my blood boil. This needs to have a rush hour streetcar/bus lane, and permanent bus lane in the far left lane. That STILL leaves 2.5 one-way lanes for cars...

The one on pg 35 is insane... She describes how this neighborhood is really noisy and there are problems with speeding and school buses, then proceeds to say these houses will ruin the "very pleasant, relatively quiet" neighborhood. Not sure what school buses speeding over speedbumps and police blockades have to do with new houses coming to her neighborhood, but okay. Then at the end she says the quiet part out loud, essentially admitting she just doesn't want any new neighbors since her current ones aren't nosy.

Springfield is the quintessential Rust Belt town that time left behind. A modernizing economy and the Great Recession left this city in the dust, but once those industries started to falter, there wasn't much to fall back on. There are some really cool buildings and places in Springfield itself, but there's so much blight and poverty that it is going to be a long road back. There's some of the grass-roots activism that you sometimes see in impoverished areas to get redevelopment going. The best comp city I can think of would be Hamilton, OH, which is about 15 years ahead of Springfield in terms of recovering/reinventing from a tough couple of decades. NPR did a spot on Springfield a few years ago that is a good summary. My wife grew up in Springfield, so we visit fairly often.

Also, to the surprise of no one, Cranley bashed this bus lane idea, claiming that Reading needs to be 2 traffic lanes. Once again proving that his pro-bus statements he makes when someone brings up the streetcar are purely bad faith.

This would be great, but it needs to be a dedicated painted red bus lane. None of this "maybe its parking, maybe its sometimes a bus lane" crap that they did on Main St. Reading Rd doesn't need 2 vehicle travel lanes in that area. Plus, this gets a jump-start on the Reading Rd BRT, making it slightly easier to get implemented when the time comes.

I haven't dug into it either, both proposals are fine to plug this year and maybe next, but the SID tax that is up for a vote in OTR should be expanded to Downtown and incorporate funding the streetcar. The same as KC.

I haven't delved too deep into the topic but are there any good examples in the US, of historically successful black neighborhoods grass-rootsing their way back to success, specifically by increasing homeownership? I imagine they don't get the big private investments that wealthy white neighborhoods do, and if they do, those big private investments often lead to Nashville-esque development and black displacement.

Last week, I was getting my basement flooring done and the contractor had his portable radio and he would listen to 700WLW the entire day he was here. The things I heard come out of that device, you'd think we were this close living in the People's Republic of America, and Republicans are the superheroes here to save the day. Luckily not enough people listen to republican talk radio nowadays, but the damage has been done. Also, after hearing the 700WLW news intro/outro last week, I realized that I grew up listening to that as a kid in my parents' car... and I grew up 130+ miles away from here. We can end this tangent here or move it to a separate thread.

When you have 700WLW, Rush, Hannity and whoever else screaming sweet nothings in your ear all day every day on your portable radio, it's incredibly hard.

I live near Lincoln Heights and drive through it every once and a while. It is absolutely disgusting what happened. The neighborhood itself has good bones and it seems as though there's renewed interest in improving what is left at a grassroots level. They could use some positive news for once, the only time you ever hear about that neighborhood is in the evening news. Some of that black population has shifted over to Woodlawn, which is very much middle-class, and has the tax base to support services. The quickest way for Lincoln Heights to improve would be getting annexed by Woodlawn since there is a tax base there. Of course, Woodlawn wouldn't want to inherit the increased crime and patrols needed in Lincoln Heights now.

They also aren't technically Hamilton County's parks. A non-profit organization runs them, and they happen to be the largest (by acreage) land owner in the county. That said, I'm impressed with the quality and how the parks are run, I think they're in good hands. And yes, there is no cost to enter on bike or foot.

Yeah, I won't go off topic, but SF zoning needs to be abolished going forward throughout the city. Allow up to Quadplexes on SF lots.

I know it's not sexy, but can we get some duplexes/quads in Madisonville? These types of housing don't typically get built nowadays, but cost of Living/Rent is about to skyrocket in that neighborhood, so getting denser needs to be a priority. These single-family homes will be Oakley/HP/Madiera prices very soon, and will track with their increases in the future.

Are they not going to make room for Wasson Way West in this development? Seems like the creek is a good ROW for the trail to continue right through the development and tie into the MLK mixed use path. EDIT: On second glance, it looks like the translucent maroon line in the Uptown rendering would be a mixed-use path.

So... The law should be automatically repealed, right? Right?!?

Removing the fees would be great. But half the time, no one is working to check for passes anyway. Winton Woods Harbor is the only exception to that rule that I've experienced. Plus, increasing bike access to the parks also means less cars paying to get in, so they probably are wondering if staffing a booth is worth it if they are expecting lower vehicle traffic counts with more trail connections to neighborhoods.

Last I heard, OKI funded that in their last announcement. Should be started by 2023.