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If those are the "asked" improvements for the Non-BRT routes, I am hopeful about the designs for the BRT routes. Signal priority would be huge, and the fact that they're thinking about TOD is great too. There are so many great opportunities for TOD on the Reading route in particular; so many empty lots north of the lateral. There already was a housing development proposed at the MidPointe Crossing area.

Good to know, I figured design had to be complete a lot sooner if they are going to hit a 2027 launch date. That likely does mean there is time to incorporate a Streetcar extension into designs and seek grant funding.

It seems the design study will be finalized "Spring 2023," so we're left to our own devices until then. In a perfect world, we'd add a "transit lane" including streetcar tracks going up the hill, but once they do add a bus lane, I imagine tearing it up again to put in tracks would be an even bigger hurdle with construction getting in the way of the new bus service. Bus-only lanes on Vine effectively kills on Vine St streetcar connections to Uptown. So the alternatives would be tunnel or around McMicken. My money is on a Streetcar extension going to Union Terminal first anyway. It's cheaper and development is moving that direction. Especially if we get 3C+D and more Indy-Chicago service.

This will be interesting to see play out. I feel like most of Cincinnati's development projects in Downtown and OTR use both Historic and LIHTC. If something isn't done to create a state program, we'll probably stop seeing the 80% median income units, that are almost always a part of these projects nowadays. I'll be happy to see the Historic Tax credits get a boost though.

I completely agree. I've been using the Transit app and just check where the streetcar is on the route. OR, we could implement all of the easy service improvements thomasbw talks about, plus add another streetcar to the rotation and not have to worry about arrival times since one will be there every 5-7 minutes.

I rode the Indy Red Line to the Colts/Eagles game a few weeks ago. Payment system was confusing (and I didn't want to miss a bus). No mention of how much a one-way trip or round-trip would have costed. I just bought $10 worth of money on a ticket and once the bus got there, there was no place in the middle of the bus (where we boarded) to have those validated. So technically i didn't even use it. It goes through Mass Ave (similar to our OTR Vine St in width and activity). No dedicated lanes and no signal priority, so we we're sitting at red lights where no other cars were waiting. It all felt very similar to our early streetcar troubles. On the way back, there was no mention that a station is closed immediately after the football games as traffic is let out, so we waited in the cold for 20 minutes until we saw buses turning before our station, so we walked 30 minutes over to the transit center and eventually caught a bus that was 30 minutes late to that stop. We've already learned some good lessons from the streetcar. I don't think we need a ton of dedicated lanes (the most expensive part), but signal priority, ticketing ease-of-use, and timeliness need to be the top 3 priorities for this.

Completely agree, but aren’t the two eastern projects getting a ped tunnel under the tracks? Or was it a road? The Factory 52 development in particular could benefit big time from connectivity. As it stands, it’s out of the way, even by car.

I'm not here to argue her talent. But she has a "massive and cold" machine behind her that not even Pearl Jam had. Will this Ticketmaster hysteria go away with no changes to the status quo? Probably. But it still puts them back in the public's cross-hairs, which is good and I appreciate it.

Like her or hate her, and question her motives all you like; she's assisting in an attempt to dismantle a monopoly. If I'm picking a side, it's hers.

It's too bad they don't own the Speedway, the building is hidden behind that ugliness. Hopefully they do well and maybe can buy it out and activate the space along Montgomery or build an expansion towards the street.

The land opened up certainly wouldn't be desirable for mixed-use Residential. And I doubt there will ever be enough office demand to develop that. If there is a serious push by the business community to get an arena built, my money is on it being there.

Yeah it really feels like ODOT is trying to just shoo us away. Aftab is stuck in the middle because he can't afford the stain of being "The Mayor that Delayed the Brent Spence Replacement," but you can tell he wants something better.

I love our city council this term. Even Liz is championing higher density as one of her main talking points.

Mandela Barnes ran this type of campaign and it didn't work for him either. He even had Obama campaign for him. The only difference is he was running against an incumbent.

Just to provide context. Ryan did outperform Ohio's partisan lean, but how much of that was the fact that he was running against a West Coast elitist, and how much was that he's a born and bred red-blooded Ohioan trying to stop the bleeding in rural areas?

The Fair Vote people better have this ready to fire over to LaRose ASAP. He'll "delay" it as long as he possibly can.

While I'd love to move to Michigan or Western PA for the better politics, I can't because of jobs and family. I imagine the people that would move because of this election is statistically insignificant. In fact, I'm somewhat proud we over-performed expectations.

This was by design, and a good idea (potentially even requested by Ryan's team). But I agree, Cleveland has been failing us this past decade, while Cincinnati and Columbus continue pulling their weight at the least.

I love how much progress we've made in catching up to KC's Streetcar. That one got nothing but good press and expansion talk, and now we're on that trajectory. At the least, the bad press has all but stopped in local news.

I agree, but I'd be curious to see what the demand is for the spec industrial space that The Port builds. It seems that they have built a few (including one at the next intersection over) that don't get filled. And the land that they advertise for custom build-outs never seems to get any takers. So at least they'll get something built here in a reasonable time frame. This parcel, for example, seems incredibly desirable on the surface: huge lot, rail access, highway access. Feels like this has been listed for years now. This area isn't "desirable" so housing prices here should be market-rate affordable. In this environment, by default, that lower price point will cause demand for these to fill up.

It's great to be getting hosing units, but why do they have to cap it at 400? There's so much space here, convert some of that reserved office to residential... The parking is egregious too, but if they wanted to keep the amount of spaces, it would be cool if they could incorporate a Park & Ride center for BRT here.

"Near Gridlock"? You could (and plenty of people do) drag race on there 24 hours a day. They're so unnecessary. Also, someone crashed into the fencing on the new park there, presumably because they were traveling an unsafe speed. I biked over there for the first time a month ago. The sounds of the beaters flying through at 60mph really kills the vibe. I heard ducks, tons of different bugs, and birds while i was there... but their sound all ended up getting drowned out by cars speeding.

I can't remember exactly, but when WVXU did a Cincinnati Edition on the redesign, there was mention of tying in the history as a canal (or the subway). So it likely looks down into the subway tunnel, or has some element showing what the canal would have looked like. https://www.wvxu.org/show/cincinnati-edition/2022-01-12/central-parkway-future-cincinnati-parks-plan

The late-night party scene has. But as a place for non-partying activities, me and my family still enjoy every bit of it. Most Sundays, we're down there going to City Flea, Coffee Emporium, Findlay Market, shops, etc. Never felt unsafe.

I concur. Thirdly, a large concrete sidewalk just kind of sucks to bike on. You hit a small bump every second and it gets annoying quickly.