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Yeah, that doesn't do enough to increase density or property tax revenue enough to make it worthwhile, especially with abatements. And even without abatements, you probably wind up with about the same number of people living there. Sounds like a Nashville trick. I actually don't see this going on much around Columbus... usually multifamily goes in when teardowns happen in Columbus proper.

I think it's the whole notion of landlords being able to get away with a lot now that there's only about 6-7 schools in Ohio that most students can go to and be able to find work afterward. Whereas it used to be all 75 or whatever.

I could barely maintain attention during it. And that's after a youth of Mr. Rogers helping me learn patience.

Similar building across the street already and has been for at least 10 years

Seriously, rebelling against Mr. Rogers created "The Warriors"? More like boredom, lead, pollution and poverty.

^Almost all new rail transit plans proposed in the '80s were expensive to build in some way. It's almost like they were trying to sabotage it.

Yeah, you can't say we need to grow more before we can have rail transit, then stop growing because we don't have it, then try to make it up in 2035. And I wouldn't be surprised if some developers in this city literally don't know that a lack of rail transit is hurting their funding.

Is zero as good to them as some? Just because a transit system doesn't resemble that of a world city doesn't mean it is nonexistent.

Many people from cities with rail transit don't look at it like that though. They see that we don't have it and immediately we are off the list to them. So we have to draw from the fewer and fewer cities left on Earth without rail transit or the Strykers that we have relied on for so long that they are almost empty.

They do have lots of sprawl, but unlike 15-25 years ago they all now have rail transit. We are SO weird for not having it.

I wonder if OSU forsees trouble recruiting international and out-of-state students in the future if rail transit is not implemented.

If he's worried about being less important now, he'll be really unimportant once the cops kill him.

The thesis panel sums up my feelings on these endless transit studies.

Oh but they do. Previously on UO (can't remember where) were maps showing these existing corridors and they are in fantastic locations. Almost everywhere important in core Columbus has rail right there already or would be on the street portion. It's a lot different that Cincinnati in that the rails aren't mostly sequestered in places like the West End, East End, the Mill Creek or trapped in the other few flat ares. Without Cranley around signal prioritization for the street portions won't be a mess. Columbus' apathy is also its power in this case. No Bob in Mason or other fire-breathing suburbanites. I mean you have rail running right now from the Convention Center just south of the Short North past Nationwide Arena, Huntington Park, the new Crew stadium, then to Grandview Yard then to just south of the Grandview strip. Unbelievable potential. It is wide gauge though. I don't think I ever had to stop an the tracks in the 5 years I lived in Grandview.

If they'd turn off the 120hz on the cheaper TVs they' wouldn't look like crap.

I don't think you need 4K to watch Andre vs. Hulk.

Hmm, Neoeclectic. Each McMansion was such a jumble of styles from 1990-2009 that I guess they had to come up with a more flattering term. I too have noticed that now the new suburban-style houses have those razor sharp lines that previous ones didn't.

Man that's a lot for a TV. Is this really you? Might want to change your password

I think everyone that was involved with Oakley in the late 2000s when I lived there felt real change was going to come more quickly.

It could, but there is no political will for a project that ambitious. However light rail with a combination of street running and dedicated ROW (underutilized existing rail corridors, not busy ones that the freight companies are extremely protective of) is doable and affordable. Yet as it stands there isn't enough political will for that even.

Speculating again, but I think the out-migration is fueled by lack of rail, but the decreased in-migration from non-Ohio Appalachia probably isn't as much. When I lived in WV, all the talk was of D.C., regular Virginia, North Carolina, basically the whole Mid-Atlantic with some South thrown in. It wasn't much Columbus as it would have been in 1980 and definitely not Cincinnati or Indy. After a while Appalachians started getting sick of the crap Ohioans were throwing at them when they came while the Mid-Atlantic states don't do that to them (Mid-Atlantic states look at WV like Vermont instead of Alabama). NC doesn't do that either... but the Deep South still can give them a hard time.

The screams all sound the same at your Local Ford dealer

I wouldn't be surprised if the sunbelt cities are getting the non-Ohio Appalachian migrants that the Midwest used to get. Also wouldn't be surprised if the lack of rail transit is starting to catch up with Columbus. And Indy. The Cincinnati streetcar hasn't been running long enough to really affect these numbers yet.

Like I've said since college... strange folk there in Amelia.