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Moving the E.120th & Euclid station is the project I'd most like to see be realised from all of these. Little Italy is a parking nightmare, but so is trying to get there on the Rapid. The current E.120th & Euclid station is so decrepit and downright scary that I never use it, and the University Circle stop is more than a mile away from Little Italy, which is a pain to walk when you've got a stomach full of linguini.

Isn't it set in like Elyria or Grafton or something?

All the stuff on the very botton left to middle is railroad tracks... Cleveland has less highway near downtown then Cincy and Columbus I know that. There is always traffic build ups when there is more then one ballgame in town, etc... This is my favorite view though! Sexy. I still wish they'd just blow that stuff up and expand with some housing, office buildings or even a giant park. The highway/railroad mass is just not attractive.

Ugh, I hate all. those. highways. Other than that Cleveland always looks fantastic from those aerial shots!

I feel completely stupid asking this question, but what's wrong with the current Cleveland Convention Center? I haven't been there since I was probably 5 or 6, but why is there a need for a new one?

These areas are the reason I'm transferring the heck out of OU.

Those are fantastic pictures! I really love how Cleveland's old intricate architecture differs so much from the rest of the state.

Well hell, ignore Broadway Commons and Cincinnati wins the "dense" card if we are ignoring blatant parking lots lol! Actually I think Cincy's spread-out sections are more glaring than either Columbus or Cleveland's. Especially to the north before that dense housing starts, yuck. Maybe it's just the way the aerial shot makes it look. They could really do a lot with that and make it look pretty nice! Columbus looks a lot better than I thought it would. I never realised how it's built right up to the river.

I really love how Cleveland's streets wind like this. It gives the illusion of a denser and easier-to-get-lost-in downtown when you're walking through them. And even shadows aside, you can definitely tell Cleveland's downtown looks more packed together and tight (if you ignore the Public Square parking lots).

I hope so. It's no fun living in the 12th most dangerous city in the country. However, I'm sure that Cleveland is still the most dangerous in the state.

Do we even need to ask? Cleveland is constantly ranked one of the most dangerous cities in the country and always the most dangerous in Ohio. But I always found it funny that one of its largest suburbs (Parma) is consistently ranked one of America's safest. what are your sources?? compared to Florida cites, Cleveland is nothing in comparison crime wise. It has been a few years since I looked at crime stats, but at the time 2002, Cleveland was not nearly as bad as many other cities its size, and better than a lot of smaller cities. http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0921299.html

Do we even need to ask? Cleveland is constantly ranked one of the most dangerous cities in the country and always the most dangerous in Ohio. But I always found it funny that one of its largest suburbs (Parma) is consistently ranked one of America's safest.

Ugh, take it somewhere else.

WTF is this thread???

Silly goose. Cleveland doesn't HAVE highways! It has grand boulevards that are like 10 lanes wide that take you to Legacy Village and that beach thingie with Nordstrom. Good for Cleveland; stay positive! You're so unfunny that you're funny. I love it.

I was kind of shocked that the Clinic would even propose this. First of all, if you have to drive to University Circle and you knew Euclid Avenue was diverted to Chester or Carnegie, why would you take Euclid in the first place? You wouldn't. So I'd bet the majority of Euclid's traffic would going to be virtually eliminated, preventing a lot of the economic growth that the ECP is trying to stimulate. Rationality and reasoning aside, closing Euclid would just be down-right blasphemous to a lot of people.

I wasn't at the performance, but I went to the Tribe game and Flannery's afterward. The combination of those two events had downtown going crazy. My friends and I sat outside to eat and there were just people and cars everywhere. I think it's one of the naturally busiest times I've ever seen downtown Cleveland. Amazing! Hey, I was sitting outside at Flannery's after the fireworks too. Downtown Friday night was very cool. Were you one of the girls doing the heavy petting with their boyfriends or the girls who couldn't get the waitress's attention? Those are the only people I remembered, I was so distracted by those amazing fireworks!

^^Isn't it "ki-yuh-HOG-uh"? I have no idea. I know people who live in Medina County and think it's "Ki-yoo-guh". I don't think this discussion could possible be more off-topic :lol:

I wasn't at the performance, but I went to the Tribe game and Flannery's afterward. The combination of those two events had downtown going crazy. My friends and I sat outside to eat and there were just people and cars everywhere. I think it's one of the naturally busiest times I've ever seen downtown Cleveland. Amazing!

^ Best news I've heard in a long time! I'm a PR major in Scripps and you can't buy publicity like this. Fantastic. Someone mad that NE Ohio is the most visible and publicised part of the state? :-D

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The arts > cigarettes, so I'mma vote YES!

Don't forget the often-overlooked Settlers Landing. So pretty!

Have you ever been to the desk and mattress place on State St. during move-in week? It's awash with parents dropping $200 on cheap desks and futons. That's what my dad did for me when I moved from James Hall to my off campus house. The point of IKEA is that it's cheap and made of particle board. It isn't built to last, but it looks good when it's new...perfect for a college kid. You can get a desk there for under $100. You probably don't know a single person at OU that has IKEA furniture because they don't want to drive over 3 hours to buy it. That's just silly. What hall did you stay in that didn't include a desk? I still think college students have no room/money for furniture, and if they ARE going to get some, they're going to Target.

Yeah, but those 10-20k dorm students need futons, rugs, lamps, end tables, towels, candles, cocktail shakers, shower caddies and whatever other accessories IKEA has. When they move out of the dorms they would be looking for desks, beds, sofas, and some of the larger ticket items. It's a big market. I routinely see parents drop hundreds of dollars at the Lennox Target without batting an eye when they drop thier kids off at school. I don't know what college kids you know, but as a student at OU I don't know anyone who has the room/money to go buying futons and end tables and all that crap (plus candles aren't allowed on college campuses). College students have the cheapest of the cheap and most of them don't have all that junk because it doesn't fit. I don't know a single person who has Ikea furniture (or much furniture at all) in their dorm room, so I doubt the student population will have anything to do with their decision.