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It's classless. Also makes me question the decision-making abilities of the developer.

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Sorry you never got to experience Quaker Square mall. It was once quite awesome, especially at Christmas. Wait, was there a mall there? I was only at Quaker Square once years ago and only remember a hotel. Did I miss something? When the hotel was a Hilton the mall was thriving. It had a lot of specialty shops along with several unique bars and restaurants. During the holiday season they would go all out with vintage decorations, choirs and musicians. Then like a flash, it was gone. It went from vibrant to barely clinging to life in a matter of months. Unfortunately a quick Google search isn't showing anything to provide evidence. The early 90's is sort of like the "dark ages" in some ways...more people need to get busy with their scanners lol.

Sorry you never got to experience Quaker Square mall. It was once quite awesome, especially at Christmas.

As someone who bikes there often, I respectfully disagree that it's functional. Plus, would it have to be big and unsightly? CHeck the San Diego pic as it is clearly neither.

I drive this circle and three others just like it almost every day in San Diego. It's a terrific upgrade vs. the traffic lights that were there. Granted, it's a main drag intersected with more quiet neighborhood side streets. So not sure if it's universally applicable.

Cool idea. I'm no traffic expert, but I do know I hate this intersection in Lakewood. I've seen so many near-misses there with cars, pedestrians and bikes. Confused drivers blast through the red lights all the time. [edit: There appears to be ample room for a roundabout conversion.]

So far? Just more evidence that Haslam makes extremely poor choices in hiring subordinates.

Our elected officials continue to operate beyond any level of accountability.

It all makes sense now. IKEA is dragging their feet in Cleveland because they're angling to locate inside Tower City. Dream On -Aerosmith The Tiny Ikea of the Future, Without Meatballs or Showroom Mazes The world’s biggest furniture retailer wants younger shoppers who don’t drive. By Carol Matlack Whether in San Diego, Novosibirsk, or Tokyo, the Ikea experience is almost as standardized as its flat packs. The blue-and-yellow big box, the vast showroom maze, the Swedish meatballs in the cafeteria—this formula propelled Ikea of Sweden AB to global No. 1 in furniture retailing, with €38.3 billion ($45.7 billion) in sales and more than 400 stores in 49 countries. There are no meatballs in Ikea’s newest London outlet, part of a shopping mall in a redeveloped urban neighborhood near the 2012 Summer Olympics complex. One of two dozen small-scale stores that Ikea has opened since 2015, it measures only 900 square meters (2,550 square feet), while the typical suburban Ikea sprawls across more than 25,000 square meters. It has a few model rooms fitted out with furniture and accessories, but hardly anything can be purchased and taken home immediately. Instead, shoppers use touchscreen computers to place orders and arrange for delivery or pickup later. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-10/the-tiny-ikea-of-the-future-without-meatballs-or-showroom-mazes

Fascinating! The Most Awful Transit Center in America Could Get Unimaginably Worse Think Penn Station is bad? Let’s go into the crumbling, disaster-prone tunnels that lie beneath. January 10, 2018, 5:00 AM EST To get to New York’s Penn Station, every northbound Amtrak passenger makes the last leg of their journey, through tunnels beneath the Hudson River, in the dark. Trust me: They should be glad. One day this autumn, an Acela pulls into Newark, N.J., and a railway spokesman escorts me onto the rear engine car, where we stand and take in the view facing backward. As we descend into one of the Hudson tunnels—there are two, both 107 years old, finished in the same year the Wright brothers built their first airplane factory—a supervisor flips on the rear headlights, illuminating the ghastly tubes. Our train (unsurprisingly) is operating at reduced speed because of an electrical glitch, which just gives us more time to gawk at the damage. There are eerie, nearly fluorescent white stains on the tunnel walls that look like they were painted by a giant with a roller brush. The pale swaths are remnants of the salt water that inundated the passages five years ago, during Hurricane Sandy. Sulfates and chlorides have been eating away at the concrete ever since, exposing reinforcement bars underneath. “Keep your eyes peeled,” says Craig Schulz, the affable Amtrak spokesman, “and you’ll see some of these areas where there is literally just crumbling concrete.” As we emerge into the bowels of Penn Station, Schulz points to wooden flood doors above the tunnel entrances. They were installed during World War II to hold back the river if the tubes were torpedoed by a Nazi submarine. In the gloom, the doors look a full century older than their vintage. They seem more suited for a dungeon than a modern rail system like this one—the Northeast Corridor, which runs from Boston to Washington, D.C., serving an area that generates a fifth of U.S. gross domestic product. Before we step off the train, Schulz repeats Amtrak’s mantra: The storm-ravaged tunnels are safe, for now, but the railroad doesn’t know how long it will be able to keep them in service. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-01-10/the-most-awful-transit-center-in-america-could-get-unimaginably-worse

Way to go!! One thing I don't understand, if the RTA patrons were using the bus they couldn't be inside. But obviously if they were using the Rapid they could be inside. It seems very strange to me.

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Ha! As I remember it, those defiant plays by Bernie were the only ones that worked! Seriously. Bill Belichick's offense was antiquated NY Giants-esque garbage back then.

Bill opted to play some dude named Todd Philcox instead of Kosar. Bill had the audacity to say that Philcox gave the Browns a better chance to win. The fans were right to be pissed off because that was a stupid thing to say. Anyhow Bill and Bernie are on pretty good terms now. I don't imagine Bill would have any ill-will toward Cleveland fans. He knows he's made mistakes in Cleveland and he's publicly admitted that. **fun fact, my college roommate got into a shoving match with Todd Philcox in the Flats. Todd took offense to the brand new Cowboys "Kosar" jersey he was wearing. Later on that night, Philcox apologized and it was all was good.

With zero fanfare, Sushi Rock has replaced Roxu in Lakewood. After a few weeks of looking near empty I'm finally starting to see customers inside. I can't remember the last time a restaurant opened without any media attention whatsoever.

Too small? http://www.trbimg.com/img-59930c2e/turbine/sd-sp-chargers-stubhub-crowd-20170814

I prefer the instant street cred that a proven free agent QB provides. Plus there's too many red flags with Rosen and Darnold.

Hmm, interesting point. Cleveland's violent crime rate is nearly identical to Hartford, Newark and Paterson.

Oh yeah, that Ray Farmer who said he wouldn't draft Khalil Mack because he played in the MAC? What a genius.

These are pro athletes. If they can't handle feeling bad they should quit the sport. Fans who stop renewing tickets and buying merch are just shooting other kinds of BB's.

I believe you're correct. Look at the SD LA Chargers. The league is defensive and embarrassed over the near-complete fan disinterest in Los Angeles. But in the end they'll do nothing because of the corporate dollars. They don't need fans to actually attend the games.

The get off my lawn crowd... Or the crowd that doesn't glorify losing... There's nothing funny about 0-16, and now that the parade is being critiqued everyone is trying to play it up like this marathon of rejects is somehow a high brow satire of the Browns season... You keep calling the parade participant names yet don't say much about the Browns themselves. I guess the "high road" is to accept 1-31 as normal. No, it's to not renew tickets. Same as I did this year. If you think a billionaire is going to be "humiliated" by a crowd of cargo shorts, tribal tats, RVs, and a grown man with a pumpkin on his head... I think you're mistaken. These guys are too egotistical for that... The size of Haslam's huge ego is exactly why it'll get bruised. The amount of money and effort the guy pours into Tennessee college sports - where there is no financial incentive - is indicative that although he's particularly great at losing, he does hate seeing his teams continually fail.

Somebody from this family better get Tim Misny on the phone right away.