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They re-built lake rd in Rocky River just a couple years ago. the community input when planning the rebuild was against bike lanes. you are stuck with what is there for a long time. But a long time might mean 10 years and not never. http://www.cleveland.com/rocky-river/index.ssf/2013/09/rocky_river_seeking_grant_for.html http://www.cleveland.com/lakewood/index.ssf/2014/03/lakewood_group_asks_city_state.html

There were 3 police cars outside of XYZ at 5 am this morning.

Meters are enforced from 7 am to 6 pm Monday-Friday. 50 cents an hour. 2 hour max

I will leave this here http://www.citylab.com/commute/2016/01/the-strongest-case-yet-that-excessive-parking-causes-more-driving/423663/

I am fine with it. I walk. There were never any kind of meters before. Went from 0 to high tech....is this the city "experimenting" with new meters that we might see rolled out city wide? And if you ask me the people who park in the clearly marked no parking zone in front of the rincon restaurant are even worse than the all day parkers, they actually cause 65th and Detroit to be a bigger bottleneck. They need some tow trucks over there to start yanking those people.

I noticed that there are now parking pay stations on detroit around w 65th. On street parking was always free. Was driving, so did not get to a machine to see if the first 1/2 hour was free or if they were charging mon-fri 9-5 like most metered spaces or evenings/weekends.

Here is an interesting piece of information regarding the Lean In Recovery Center. This is the residential director https://www.linkedin.com/in/chas-kennedy-6443755b Graduated high school in 2008 College in 2012 This will be his 6th job in 5 years. The longest job he held was for 1 year and 4 months. The shortest is 8 months. They all appear to be sales jobs. None of them are addiction recovery related. He shares the same last name as the President of LIRC.

hey dergon...come back from vacation all excited that F. Caruso is open..... It might be "done" but it is not open. Not sure if they are waiting on CPP to put in the new street lights, spraying the dirt with grass seed, or some sort of final inspection. but father caruso is not open for business yet. I was so disappointed. I had a tan and everything.

Paris of the upper eastern Midwest. take that Buffalo. And after 2.5 + years of construciton. The curbs look better than Poseidon's fountain at Versailles

Versailles Versailles fountain by versailles , on Flickr

curbs anybody have the instructions for embedding photos?

This will also make the "medical" marijuana market explode. I think people will be shocked and how much support that gets. Much like the casino(s) I am not happy about writing a monopoly into the constitution. But I feel the people will take this only path around our neanderthal legislature.

I found the reporting on the original bill. It has been in the last year or so where they got the DB's up and running and the enforcement has been kicking in. http://www.cleveland.com/open/index.ssf/2011/05/battle_against_prescription_dr.html

I have a buddy with a legit bad back...like 6 blown disks and 3 surgeries to date. he is 4 inches shorter than he used to be. He is on a pretty regular regime of narcotics. It has become an absolute nightmare for him to get and fill scrips. No re-fills, no mail order, a dr visit every time, has to take a drug test to prove he is taking them. You can thank the increase in street heroin to the absolute shutting down of Dr's writing scrips for pain meds et al and pharmacies having to monitor and report any/all scrips. To almost everyone for everything. Including sleeping pills, valium, xanax...etc. This is one of those unintended consequences. And a huge reason for it blowing up in the burbs.... your family doc or dentist used to give you what you needed/wanted. Now they can go to jail, so you turn to the street. The poor folk without health care never had that option and just always went for the H it was cheaper anyway. This is going to get far worse before it gets better.

walked overt to Cha at battery park on Friday...the whole roadbed is in.

any one know when punch bowl social will be opening? The website says nothing....everything I can find says august, but that was from the spring.

I think that is the building on the south west corner of 25th and lorain. catty corner to the market....not the cold storage building. The one that has Crop on the ground floor. -edit- saw the cold storage building as well.

I have found the opposite to be true. So much so, I don't even bother to look. I just look at the schedule. The route I usually take..the 26.. is frequent enough that it isn't a complete pain. BUT if i was on one of those routes that come but once an hour like the 45, i would be insane.

I do logistics software for a living...and I sat through the web site re-design. The wording was very imprecise, and nobody seemed to have the definitive answer...But from what i understand, the technology is just not there on the buses/trains. They do not constantly broadcast their location or even reasonably periodically. We do this with trucks...they are usually setup to ping once an hour and have expensive satellite technology. One of our divisions sets this up on Marine diesels for engine performance data...and subsequently uses the location data for scheduling. Another does satellite GPS for heavy earth moving equipment, anther for farm machinery. I would give the drivers an allowance($100)...build an app they download to their own smartphone...have them clock into it with their route #....pay and real time location data. I could not figure out if RTA is setup to signal something like once an hour...which renders the data unusable for this purpose. Or if the data is only transmitted when the train/bus passes some sort of transponder/fixed location.

I could be wrong, but the way i understand it...the "real time" location data isn't reliable. The "ping" from the bus or train, is not sent/received/processed in real time. If you look at the next connect app, almost all of the next buses trains are just what the schedule says, not where the bus/train really is.

Went to the planning meeting last night West shoreway/edgewater/Shoppes at Clifton. Nothing new. Roundabout will be 1 of the first things done...finished by june 2016 using 1.6 million the state gave them during the handoff. They are starting now with shoreway construction. Maintain 2 lanes of traffic during construction. Lucky's grocery should be started by the end of the year. The church is coming down....starting any day now. All I can say, is thank god for the Metroparks. They know what they are doing, and they are doing it well. And while Matt Zone is a politician... he at least understands density and urban planning.

It is also for handicapped accessibility. the restaurant will be on the second floor. The walkway replaces the need for an elevator. Elevators are not cheap.

1 problem with all of this. if you read the article... "High-tech and expensive electronic voltage support equipment will be built at the Lake Shore and Eastlake sites. That equipment, which will require a few workers, is designed to stabilize the grid and allow the company to begin importing electricity from its Ohio River power plants."

On some Cleveland streets parked cars have zero effect. People still drive however fast they want to. Lake Ave in the mornings comes to mind--I've seen a few people almost get whacked walking about between two parked cars. I think the comparison of the future 73rd to what Lake Road looks like is close... a little busy maybe, but a close approximation. There will be a morning and evening "rush". I'm not sure where the break-even street would be, but my guess would be that anyone West of 65th heading downtown will find it faster to use 73rd rather than going down 45th. The bluffs, when built out, will go to 45th down Tillman. during the rushes, people have no choice but to drive slow....lake rd is 25 MPH? KPJ can you confirm. but people will go 35 - 40 when traffic is light. 2 separate issues....lots of traffic, but slow. Or light traffic moving fast. Neither one is great for kids. Anyone east of 78? 80? 83? will go get on/off at lake/clifton. Hopefully you just don't get too much traffic other than the immediate neighborhood and points south...to Madison maybe. At some point it is easier to get on 90 at W. blvd or 85th and Lorain. I will probably use this but the people east of 73rd have to go all the way up to Detroit and then all the way down 73rd. I live at 70th so this will be shorter than getting on at 45th...but i think Dergon is correct from 65th over, it will probably be quicker/easier to go to 45th. I think you will also get most of the mobile martin (the ambulances) traffic their building is between 70 and 73. they used to swing around in front of our places on the way to the shore way. Those engines in those vans work hard....and they are driven hard, even if they aren't speeding, they are not quiet.

Yes...I was at the meetings. My favorite answer. As relayed by Zone from our Traffic Engineer (whom I believe is the same person who was demoted over the snowplowing debacle this past winter) this is a paraphrase. It is best to allow traffic to control itself..it will find it's own optimal speed. I did not say, but thought to myself....then what are we paying you for? He wasn't there or I would have actually asked the question, zone was relaying the "stock answer" the guy gives so he doesn't have to actually do any work. Makes sense from both a city of Cleveland worker perspective as well as somebody in charge of moving cars around and efficiently as possible. Forget people. Cars are much more important to a traffic engineer. The best hope is that once the shoreway is a "boulevard" it will be as quick to keep going down Detroit all the way to down town or get on the shoreway at either lake or 45th. The shoreway is a long way from Detroit at 73rd. That or I would be looking to buy a beater car (invite the neighbors to participate) to leave parked on the street. Nothing quite like parked cars for do it yourself traffic calming.