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  1. Does traffic always back up all the way to Florence before a home game? We were coming up from Central Kentucky Sunday morning and the traffic was nasty. The phone said it was bad all the way to the stadium. We turned around at Buttermilk Pike and took 275 to 471 and it was fine. I never came that way before games when I lived in Cincinnati. OSU only backs up about a mile from the stadium when you come up 315 before a game and Ohio Stadium holds more.
  2. Probably trying to keep people from Pikeville from moving to Lexington instead.
  3. GCrites replied to Boreal's post in a topic in Ohio Politics
    Sounds like they did a great job of charging Patel before they determined if he was even alive.
  4. I wonder what the walls were for. A motorcycle junkyard doesn't have the money to wall their stuff off like that. Someone before had to have put them up.
  5. That may be true of the Catholic schools and the highly-selective "brain schools" but a lot of other private schools aren't nearly as successful at those goals. And very well could open the door to every little nondenominational church with no oversight to open up a school where they just talk about Jesus all day. Those churches don't have the diocese or the kind of oversight that the old denominations have.
  6. ^It's not brand new so it has to come down or be neglected.
  7. ^"totally BRB with plans, honest"
  8. GCrites replied to a post in a topic in City Photos - Ohio
    And half of those new businesses are bleeding their franchisees dry because their drive-thru dependent businesse models can't handle only walkup traffic and all that downtime. No huge groups of senior citizens showing up at 6am to sit there and drink coffee.
  9. GCrites replied to amped91's post in a topic in Ohio Politics
    Without immigrants to do our blue collar work there won't be any white collar work. Not even for H1-Bs.
  10. GCrites replied to amped91's post in a topic in Ohio Politics
    Vonoivich would have an -I next to his name today.
  11. So a larger-than-expected portion of the residents don't have cars then?
  12. Yeah when people ask what led to Jerry Springer being mayor you get to explain that was like 7 reforms ago.
  13. Got a flyer in the mail saying my polling place has been moved from the walkable place it had been for years to another spot where almost everyone will have to drive. I know the old building needed a lot of work but it worked fine as a polling place. It doesn't need to be demoed but the city wants to expand a parking lot.
  14. So the AFC/NFC halftime shows would be like, Creed
  15. Top teams cheat, OSU barely loses and Day gets the blame again.
  16. lEvEl Of SeRvIcE bRo
  17. GCrites replied to Boomerang_Brian's post in a topic in Ohio Politics
    The hidden product thing really sticks out to friends who had already been to dispensaries in other states before buying in Ohio.
  18. GCrites replied to ColDayMan's post in a topic in Mass Transit
    Yeah the buses will really be able to carry a lot of speed on Olentangy with signal prioritization (which LinkUS will have!)
  19. GCrites replied to ColDayMan's post in a topic in Mass Transit
    After looking how transit expansions were funded initially in our peer cities one source moves to the top and that's sales taxes. After the sales tax passes then come the federal funds. In order to see the highest possibility of passage the service area funded by the sales tax generally needs to be large rather than a smaller starter line that serves a core area. So the emphasis is on the BRT, bike, pedestrian and general funding aspects of the plan. If too much emphasis was placed on High Street (which some would argue already has too much emphasis on it as a part of town as compared to every other part) the further a voter lived from it the less likely they would be to vote for it. But nothing is being ruled out since there will be a lot of funding with the sales tax. And a lot of the rail solutions will be easier to implement once we get over this hump of "No local match, no money from the Feds because you're not dense enough" business. Cincinnati scraped together money from a bunch of different sources and faced massive resistance since going to the voters would be harder -- their sales tax was already high to build Paul Brown Stadium.
  20. Local politicians say the Brown campaign has pushed up TV ad rates a ton because the spend is a million dollars a week in Columbus.
  21. GCrites replied to ColDayMan's post in a topic in Mass Transit
    The next and final LinkUS panel discussion is scheduled for Tuesday October 22 from 5:30PM-7PM at Seventh Son Brewing on 4th.
  22. Downtown has its own zoning code that didn't change with Zone In that allows lots of density-related things that the old zoning didn't and even Zone In doesn't in a lot of places. Here is an interactive Zone In map: https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/f8ec3c7ce4b34a6aa4b7be3ffbcb9717/
  23. A lot of times for event attendance numbers you can ask the Port-A-John company. But with Blink you have a lot of people using restrooms in businesses as well which makes it harder.