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The Cincinnati metro has zero strip joints now doesn't it?

Didn't give Tampa the boot and they have less downtown hotel rooms than Columbus. Tampa does have rail transit (TECO) but the line is underdeveloped in places.

Sounds like Columbus post-2000 or so. I never knew any Steelers fans growing up, but now...

I can't remember the proposed first day of streetcar operation. Isn't it early 2016?

Columbus has no rail transit. I guarantee that's what got us the boot, even from the GOP. Our lack or rail transit really sticks out now that everyone else has it.

There's such an oversupply of highly educated people that are indeed qualified to do that sort of teaching but the private sector hates due to their skills not being specific enough. That's how higher education can get away with it. These days, when your are young, the private sector only wants you as a salesperson or somebody who does the same highly-specialized task over and over.

It's an interesting dynamic because the movie, to the best of my knowledge, is not an 'era piece'....... yet it seems like it is supposed to take place in some small community which has been stuck in a 1980's timewarp. I can't imagine that many millenials take much notice of half the shite in that movie which is from my generation (X). The tacky clothes and styles, virtually everything inside his grandmother's home from the phone to the furniture, the walkman, trapper-keepers, the soundtrack..... nearly everything is from the 80's. You see that in the more rural areas. They aren't hell-bent on remodeling everything every four years like people in Columbus are.

Thing is, I don't expect them to go this far (speaking of Quiet Riot): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLsw668PVyY So the early '80s hair rock with regular dudes before the makeup came along and the wardrobes got out of control is more applicable even if the look doesn't wind up being the same.

I would have like to have seen that totally '80s little mall inside left alone.

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I can see that -- the possibility of a new "Glam teen" thing coming around. Sorta like how coming out of the '70s when all these classic rock dinosaurs with their giant fu-manchu mustaches and leftover hippie beards that made them look 40 when they were really 20, flouncy blouses, kimonos and bellbottoms got wiped out by the clean-shaven with product in their hair Def Leppards, Quiet Riots and Ratts that were young and actually looked it.

I would argue that the automobile is the cause. Even though cars saw their rise in the 20s, sprawl didn't really happen until the 50s because it was delayed by the Great Depression of the 30s and WWII of the 40s. All the thousands of years before required people to live within walking distance of most institutions (the market, the well, etc.) and in close proximity for protection. Prior to the car being affordable it was mostly the rich who lived outside the city on their large estates away from the hustle and bustle. The automobile had to be enables by government subsidies resulting from the "Good Roads" movement and the creation of the first property taxes for auto infrastructure in cities and for the additional sewers, water lines and streets necessary for low-density development. The rest of the world also has the automobile and some countries did indeed reshape their cities around the automobile. But most began to curtail that type of activity after the 1960s and restored their city centers for pedestrian centered activity. The difference in those countries is that driving doesn't receive nearly the subsidies that it does here. One country that is still very auto-centric is Iraq.

Rural development patterns aren't sprawl.

I don't like the idea of the rails being removed for any length of time. People will come up with too many excuses not to restore them.

The lack of sprawl in the thousands of years of humankind before massive American government subsidies for sprawl starting in the 1950s proves something if you ask me.

streetcar cult zealots corrupting our youth

These kinds of trails are automatically going to be more popular around Cincinnati as compared to flatter areas due to the lack of flatness around the city.

The average piece of farmland in central and mid-Ohio has much more profit potential than the avenge plot around Cincinnati, Appalachian Ohio or Kentucky, so you're kinda speaking from your local perspective. Water runs off of those lands very quickly or farmland in those areas sits in risky floodplains. Same thing with the land appreciation argument. Sure nobody wants to try to sell floodplain near Newtown, but farmland around Columbus can rise quickly due to all the warehouses that go up here and due to continuing growth in the metro. And the land is already flat. Flat land with little drainage problems goes for a premium. But the other thing you can do is sharecrop rather than cash rent. When you cash rent the farmer takes all the risk rather than the landowner. That provides a steady stream of income, but has much lower profit potential because it is low risk.

Then there's the old take a screenshot of their desktop, delete all their icons, then make their wallpaper the screenshot of their desktop with all the icons.

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Always? You mean since 1955 in the United States of America almost exclusively. I love how people seem to pretend that Earth didn't exist before the point that they're trying to make. Okay, during the historically relevant time period in this nation. So that's the only time in our continent's history that is important? I disagree.

In many cases both bike trails and rail can be put in the same R/W as long as there is an effective separation.

That's way up there!

I think they're on cruise control. Seems like Meijer has no problem building inside 275 but they don't have anything inside 270 anymore as far as I know so I haven't been in one lately.

Oh goody, Cranley trying to turn bicyclists and rail advocates against each other.