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Yes please to both! What an awesome offer.

I've only been to one opening day previously BUT (aside from playoffs) this is the most full I've seen the stadium in a long time. Usually they 'sell out' with the last sections up top unsold but they were all full. Whether or not folks paid for those tickets vs using the SRO tix it probably doesn't matter much. Maybe Dolans are being pushed by the new ownership group to fill seats vs milk more money from fewer people. It was nice floating around the stadium again, here's the view from one of my stops in the tippy top shipping containers.

Opening Day from the shipping containers...

Being the state capital and having Ohio State isn't something the rest of Ohio has (there's your different problems). Also, nearly $1B more state dollars are spent in Franklin County vs the other large counties. Source: https://www.lsc.ohio.gov/assets/organizations/legislative-service-commission/files/fy-2022-state-spending-by-county.pdf

Current: 2013:

I've used these before in other cities and it's a really nice thing to have. My biggest concern is the ability to feed a U lock through by back triangle and wheel and it looks possible so that's totally a win in my book.

My boss worked for one of the engineering firms that did the HealthLine - he says a major reason for it looking like it does (mostly w/raised platforms) was to make it kind of feel like a train. Honestly signal prioritization on Euclid (maybe we'll get that by the end of Bibb's term?) should make it feel like a train. But as of right now, you can bike faster than the "BRT" in too many sections of it.

We should go full arcos if we're gonna do it.

Wow, weird to see contiguous lines. This'll be really cool to see once they get going with it. Also talk about potential efficiency - no need to wait on a GL/BL train after your RL shows up late to TC.

Any UO'ers headed to the Home Opener? I'm giving the 'unlimited plan' a go, if anything it was cheaper to buy that then secondary home opener tix hah.

Didn't realize funding and all that jazz got approved- threw me off when walking by today lol Also, probably unrelated: Also, since it's moving should this be moved to main projects page @ColDayMan/ @X?

These photos came out like an undergrad mixed media project lol And normal-ish pic. hah

Two cranes on site= double rainbow reaction to everyone on here

A few from Front Steps today

Bit of a stretch but if you zoom in you can see the SHW crane in this one, I'll be back with a non-cell camera to actually get this view again. Another one that's a super stretch (and need good camera to capture it) but you can barely make out SHW crane.

^You make a good point with all the other fiscal commitments we have as a city and county. It would be really nice (but will never happen) for surrounding counties with fans to pay their fair share. I guess you could do that through a ticket fee but not like people are going out of their way to attend games as it is. Part of living in a city, but it's still annoying to have people come in and treat it like a playground, trash the place, then go back to Medina (and then trash the city in conversation). But that's a conversation for another thread.

It's Hanna's turn: (lol this one belongs in a museum...)

The new library is pretttttty swanky. Also cool (and a shock to me riding past at 11PM) but they have an afterhours pickup locker. It's similar to an amazon box but for library materials - super cool, it's in the vestibule (hence the auto door being open in this pic..).

Go Bills! I'll see myself through a table now and let folks continue the Browns discourse.

I know they inherited a bad situation but at what point is the honeymoon over with Birdsong? When she first came on she was all over the media and (I know she was on maternity leave) but like, aside from the initial media blitz it's been crickets.

I had a crappy car I didn't trust and tried the whole no car life and it's possible but don't expect it to be efficient or make sense. At that time I dropped off the radar with east side community events (I'm in Old Brooklyn) and folks offered rides because a 30 min drive is a 1.5 hour bus ride. I've mentioned it before, but a young adult I mentor lived in Maple and got a job at Amazon in Euclid - a ~30ish minute car ride was a 1.5 hour bus ride each direction - he'd have to leave his house at 5:30AM to get to a 7AM shift - and that's assuming the bus stops (he had to take a $40 uber once because of this issue). Living in NEO without a car and having it be practical is not easy - you'd need to move into neighborhoods that cater to that 15 minute city life and frankly if you're a carless household (not by choice) very rarely can you afford those type of neighborhoods. If I recall, RTA Execs couldn't make Transit Week work for them, that's embarrassing and tone-deaf.

Embarrassing. I'm exaggerating but this is almost 10% of PA's yearly levy revenues (~$2.9M/yr). What a terrible, terrible deal for the taxpayers of CC. Updated reflecting @Whipjacka's comment. It's not as big of a deal money wise but it's still terrible.

Psh, they can't take too many people on the top secret behind the scenes tour. Right? Riiiiight?