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We don't do nearly enough to capitalize on the Rock Hall. It would be so easy to do. It's perplexing.

The dedicated RTA bus route @25:40 is going to be interesting. That crosswalk at the market just looks increasingly dangerous for pedestrians. I imagine with a dedicated bus lane this crosswalk will get a walk/don't walk signal.

I was in town a few weeks ago with some friends and so we walked the path a bit and stopped into the Flat Iron for dinner. The bartender was very appreciative that we made it down there.

The closure of Fat Fish Blue in lieu of a cheesy Breast-aurant signaled a bad omen for TC and perhaps all of downtown. The Casino has seemingly done nothing much at all to improve adjacent retail.

The NFL's media rights alone are earning something like $100 billion USD. It's hard to argue they need to be subsidized for anything.

Interestingly the Mexican-American wing of my family was early on board the idea of "the wall" even despite Trump's dumb rhetoric. They've long since jumped off, but their reasoning was that securing the border is the only way to curb cartel exploitation. It's depressing that we don't seem to be making any progress whatsoever toward improving the process for these migrants and others.

Every Indians fan knows bug spray doesn't work on the midges. And most Yankees fans ;-)

^ It's approx. a 4-5 minute walk from Tower City to that bridge plaza/park. In my dream I'd love to see Tower City once again become a large retail center, with the bridge as an extension of small shops, kiosks, etc. that could co-exist with some level of a reborn streetcar system. Seamless activity from TC to OC in a lively pedestrian corridor, like we've all seen in old pictures.

NJ could definitely be the star of the show for a course on incredibly poor planning lol. Yet sadly the legacy lives on in the suburban sprawl plaza-fication we still see being created across the USA.

This scenario was entirely predictable. The Shoreway becoming a true boulevard would've helped prevent this by vastly improving street access to the Park - with more sidewalks and more on-street parking via the south. Yes the train tracks are a huge barrier, that won't change anytime soon unfortunately. But today there isn't really any street grid approach to the park, plus no reliable transit and so we'll just have the same bottleneck situation there.

Yup. The "main street" in my hometown was a 55 mph roadway, lined with businesses. Speed of traffic was usually 65 plus. I liken the experience to growing up in a Mad Max scenario.

Wow the Bolivar facade is looking nice, better than I remember. * why is "facade" giving me a red underline? I know that's a real word

If Dolans campaign is run by the same folks that market the Guardians I don't think he's any threat whatsoever to car salesman aka Rev. Blockchain aka Bernie Moreno.

I can't read the article but your tone sounds positive. Back in college the use of such credits was the hallmark of the "free market environmentalists" point of view. Like a lot of proposed solutions there was obviously potential for abuse within the system, but we've seen some good come out of wetlands mitigation and some other similar regs over the years.

Wow, my Vietnam vet dad does not approve using that ridiculous war as fuel to criticize these hard working folks.

I thought they were more about the physical infrastructure side of the equation. Which we need improvements for sure. But we surely need some kind of programming & coordination body to herd these cats.

Haha well it is where the Dirt Devil was created!

Sen. Cirino's response to this post is "you're right, we should give UT and OSU $460,000,000 of taxpayer money to fund our initiative!"

^ Exactly. This is where the Science Center needs to post up some outdoor interactive exhibit, like "The Science of Music" or whatever over at Voinovich to compliment the Rock Hall experience. There needs to be music and activity in that park and North Coast Harbor all the time. Heck I've seen musicians play inside the Mather and it was awesome, more of that please! With all these separate entities operating in a vacuum we're going to struggle to get anywhere.

"Dearth" is a word I don't use very often...but there is an absolute dearth of street-level retail with the exception of the big sporting events. In more lively cities you see entrepreneurial minded people posted up everywhere and selling whatever.

Maybe Voinovich?

I'll stick up for the bridge for a second. If you want to establish pedestrian flow in the near term, it makes all the sense in the world. The harbor mouth is long range, but the inner harbor attractions are all set and ready to go. Now that's not the end of it of course. To improve the overall experience we need to see the Rock Hall, Science Center and Voinovich Park acting in concert for programming or ways to better connect the spaces both physically and aesthetically. Plus we need lots of infill, think little shops, cafes, kiosks, etc. that will serve to make the whole area more self-contained, more intimate and less sparse feeling. Unfortunately we've not seen the high level of cooperation yet. The Science Center needs later hours and more outdoor activity. And even the Rock Hall renovation plan doesn't seem to address pedestrian flow along the water, or how they're really going to activate that cold dead cavernous area. So the bridge is perhaps underutilized, but it's really not the bridge's fault. North Coast Harbor should be ground zero for activity especially in the warmer months, but years and years after its renovation in 1990? we are still not getting the best out of that space.

A quick search showed no results for how these specific bollards handle road salt. Anyhow I'm sure the city learned its lesson and has done plenty of due diligence ;-) I guess we'll know soon enough.

I found it telling that they went out of their way to add irrelevant info on the unjust "adult" treatment of juveniles there, as if that somehow weighs in on any aspect of renovation. How small is too small for apartments? Aren't affordable micro units all the rage now anyhow?

The "erosion control" worries me, but heck, tentative thumbs up.