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I'm all in on this levy simply because the trails they are mentioning (so I would assume prioritizing) would be connected to the trail near my house and allow me and the family access to Glenwood Gardens, Winton Woods, Sharon Woods, and the northern neighborhoods without getting into a car. I'm quite amazed at the ask, and I highly doubt this passes because they're selling this as a benefit to a small portion of the county. They need to release a master bike plan that this would fund if they want to have any chance here. If they can keep moving the Ohio River Trail West and East, extend the LMT, and get progress going on the northern portion of the Mill Creek trail, I could see it potentially passing as people crave off road bike infrastructure, and there's a lack of it outside of the east side of the county. It may be more apt to have this spearheaded by an organization other than Great Parks. For as wonderful an organization that they are, people are going to think they just blew the money we approved 2 years ago.

Why wouldn't they just put the logo up there? Or modify the color scheme of the paint to be green, blue and white like the logo. It's so ugly this way.

And we have some important generational improvements in the pipeline. The WHV will be finalized for construction and the rollout of the Reinventing Metro Plan will need a mayor that doesn't want to railroad it.

Yeah, an I or R candidate will run. Jason Wiliiams, Billy C and the 700WLW crew need someone to back.

https://www.wvxu.org/post/whats-next-cincinnatis-bid-be-2026-world-cup-host-city#stream/0 You know what would help sell the FIFA officials on Cincinnati? Pitching that we will extend the streetcar system to the many UC/uptown hotels before summer 2026. Either way, I don't see how we can beat 4 of the other American cities on that list based on their criteria.

This is a sitcom that writes itself

I haven't heard anyone in public view talk about Cincinnati Mass Transit that fervently in my decade living here. Hopefully he spearheads the initiative and gets the Gang of Five to also endorse and push for it.

I just looked at the planned route... It is opening in 2027, going from Merced to Bakersfield, with Fresno being the biggest city on that route. No one is going to ride this thing until they put the full approved system into use.

Yeah, there's plenty of other commercial needs that need to be filled on the first floor. In big European cities, there's convenience stores, discount stores, laundromats, cheap restaurants on almost every block. In Downtown/OTR, that stuff barely exists. Makes it feel like it isn't a place that people live, and a place that people visit.

They will be pumping some portion of the stream back up to the beginning so there will always be running water.

This isn't specifically about the Eastern Bypass, but there was a discussion last week about Cincinnati's sprawl being fairly close to tapped out, and our city having a naturally-provided "greenbelt" given the hills in and around the city. I made a quick map of the highways in the area, and places that are still viable for single-family development. The teal areas are places that are already filling in, or seem like the next most obvious place for subdivisions to pop up. -As Hamilton grows in popularity, we are likely to see a some more growth in the farm fields that used to surround it. Specifically, Ross will fill out quickly, them some between US27 and US127 roads as well. -West Chester and Mason are going to do what they're going to do. The space between 75 and 71 will continue to fill out, I suspect all the way up to Caesar's Creek before it starts becoming way too far out there. -The farm fields in Newtown will eventually be replaced, although flooding is probably an issue. -There's some limited space left along 75/71 in NKY, but mostly filled out to the split at this point. -We should count our lucky stars we don't have more highways in the area There's tons of housing and empty teeth within 275, but outside of CitiRama, you barely ever see home-builders go here, simply because the returns are better on a flat piece of farm land in the burbs. You can see why they wanted the Eastern Bypass created, the highway would have created tons of marketable lots out in the flat land to the east of the city where a highway currently doesn't exist. I think that we will start seeing increasing subdivision home-builder activity within 275 in the 2030s.

If I'm 3CDC, I don't know how you could go with anything other than majority Residential mixed use from here on out. Medium scale office space is not a growing need, and its almost a given that office work will not return to the same level of activity even once this pandemic ends. Residents will need to fill the commercial demand.

Uh, no it's not. It's blanketed in trees... ? Bye bye sycamores, hello Sycamore Lane!

I haven't. I may attempt when the Lick Run trail is done. Based on a quickly Google Maps peek, I'd take the top deck. Westward, take your pick, but the lower deck is only 1 lane eastbound, and I'm not willing to take a one lane narrow road with some of the crazies that drive over that thing waiting behind me.

Well, hopefully this helps keep him out of the mayoral race. He seems to have some momentum and may have been reconsidering it after saying the right things these last few weeks.

That first hill seems smaller than I expected, but the ride itself is longer than I figured it would be (given the average speed of this thing)

If we attribute a certain % of increased development along the line to the Streetcar itself, once those tax rebates we offer roll off the books, I'd consider those properties' tax revenue as attributable to the streetcar. Of course, that also means the VTICA would be decreasing as those properties' tax rebates expire as well, so it may just always be revenue neutral, which is perfectly fine given the intangible benefits. This is our best medium-term chance to get this thing up to UC. If the numbers are good in 2021 with it being free, a new mayor and council will be in office in 2022. If Biden wins in 2020, I imagine he would give the FTA decent money to be allocated for non-car improvements, giving us a window to win money in 2023-2025 and build it by 2030.

I thought I read in the Courier that SORTA had asked for that earnings tax money to go to them since it was theirs prior to the transit tax passing. Could cause a public fight and red meat for the local news and a lot of streetcar haters to suddenly become bus advocates for a hot second.

Anytime police violence happens and the BLM movement gains steam, "Abortions are the real killer of black people" comment comes out of the woodwork from one particular political party. So yes, at this point, Dusty is right in line with today's mainstream R's, no reason to endorse or even call him a member of the Democratic party. Just a glance at him on Twitter over the years shows just how lock-step he is with the R party's rhetoric.

Ok good, I was worried this was being shot down after looking through the HCB packet eariler this week. It's 15 feet taller than the buildings next to it... if that's you're concern, get over it, that's not a legitimate reason to stop this. This is exactly the type of housing that OTR is missing, I'm hoping more like this and Willkommen start popping up. The 80% of AMI housing that usually gets proposed is a joke, it needs to be around 50%, or micro-apartments to keep rents down. I'm fine with minor exceptions to the HCB guidelines if housing like this can add to the vibrancy of OTR (service workers living and working in OTR)

Yeah, I guess the way I was thinking about it is similar to the Obamacare fight in 2017. Once people felt that the ACA was in danger, support for it skyrocketed, I'm kind of hoping the same logic applies here and there are a bunch of silent supporters of the streetcar. Anecdotally, I get ribbed in my friend group for being a strong proponent of parking somewhere cheap and using the streetcar to get around the basin anytime I go downtown, and my friend group is all left-leaning. Similar story if I take a bus to an FCC game where traffic and parking are the worst.

I'm hoping this fight broadens the vocal support for the streetcar at least a little. There's always been a few local big proponents of it, but it always seems that the default impression is that this thing is a waste of money. With Emelio fighting back, at least there's a big name making a stink about the ridiculousness of stunting the streetcar and the benefits it provides, might light a fire among the many that don't care.

This is what I don't understand. Yes, Cincinnati has a conservative and corporate history and has traditionally hated transit. But why can peer cities like Kansas City and Indianapolis get these things done and we can't nowadays? It can't just be that their roads are wider. It can't just be that P&G, Great American, 5/3 and Kroger hate transit more than Salesforce and (checks Wikipedia for KC corporations) Hallmark. It can't be that we have a high % of conservatives in the county (as of 2016-2018 elections). The Cincinnati of 2002 is not the same one as today. As much as Bill Cunningham wishes it would be.

I don't think there will be much "community opposition" on Glenway and Reading, which is why I think they're doing these first. Maybe the yuppie popularity of IndyGo's Red Line and Purple Line will pave the way for Montgomery in 2035. I also doubt Hamilton faces much opposition unless Northside and College Hill become full of Hyde Park types.

https://2050.oki.org/recommended-projects/#map I took a look at the OKI 2050 plan and map. Here's what they have slated for SORTA. Seems as though Glenway and Reading are prioritized as the BRT routes (2027) and Montgomery Rd is also planned (for 2035). Also of note, an actual dedicated platform for Amtrak at Union Terminal, which I imagine coinciding with some sort of regional service at normal hours, like CIN to CHI. (2035) EDIT: Please provide feedback and let OKI know the importance of transit/bike improvements