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My main concern is that lobbyists from the car companies, the tech companies, oil and rubber interests and highway contractors will convince lawmakers to oversubsidise the cars to the point where any other mode of locomotion will be suppressed and the sprawl machine that is already losing popularity for reasons other than auto expense will force people into sprawly development patterns that they don't even like. Anything in the name of technology -- everybody's depressed, wants to kill themselves and take out 15 others with them, let's build more soul-crushing sprawl. All this "let's add tech, people will like cars and sprawl again if we just add tech" smacks of the kind of desperation that someone or something that is becoming irrelevant does to try and be "cool" again. Like the dads who all of a sudden start shopping at the same stores their teenage children do.

Gene Smith wanted to schedule Grambling but it didn't happen. So they talked to some other HBCs and Florida A&M got scheduled.

I remember one time I was at an open mic at a tapas bar and somebody had a pizza delivered to their table from down the street. It didn't go over well.

He probably told them to spend lots of money at Westland Mall, on Brice Rd., at New Market Mall, Howard Johnson's, Borden Burger and the West Broad Drive-In.

I figure at this level nuisance lawsuits are worth $2000 and hour at the very least...

Men and women really do write very differently for the most part.

You can hear Harleys riding 3 miles away out there. I live 3 miles from downtown, but I don't hear Harleys that are riding downtown because there are plenty of structures in the way. And there's a million Harleys in any semi-rural area.

Golden Corral already knows this.

Take that computer!

We should probably spin this mall talk off into Ohio Malls News & Discussion or something.

Add Southland Mall in Columbus which is now just offices for Bob Evans and ECOT to failed malls. Everybody forgets this mall because it's in a part of town that people go to because they have to, not want to. Consumer Square east never had any enclosed mallway. It had a Cub Foods (which turned into a Kroger) and a Burlington Coat Factory as big boxes with the rest being inline such as FuncoLand. There was also a movie theater structure that stood for maybe seven years. And it had a wholesale club in an outlot which still stands. I wonder if that McDonald's is still uber-early '90s inside.

I agree. If Saks wants to go, good riddance. I too think one/two story big downtown department stores as we know them today, are useless. This store in particular just isn't very busy, and creates a huge dead zones along both 5th and vine streets Urban dweller shopping habits are vastly different than suburban ones. First off, less spending on possessions overall. Lots of money spent on nights out. Preference for smaller specialty shops of all types. Not scared of buying a wacked-out item or two. Less idle browsing, more focused shopping. "I need..." Little to no substitutions -- if you don't have the exact thing I want, I'm gone. I'll just call all the little shops in town. Lots of checking the web first to see if the store "looks OK" rather than just showing up like at the mall. That's just a few

That kind of fixation would normally be a sign of Autism.

He's probably afraid of losing the name recognition he earns from having his name on every gas pump. "Do you realize those hipsters with their bikes and streetcar won't even know who I am?"

Horsemen hated the car too since it could make horses lose their minds. There was a law somewhere at one time where the minute a driver saw a horseman on the road he immediately had to pull over and camouflage his car with brush or burlap sacks to avoid spooking the horse.

Buick does really well in China.

The fist time I heard the acronym USMNT I thought it was U.S. M&T and that it was a bank.

9/11

If the troopers don't increase the interest in urbanism, bikes and walking I don't know what does.

Oh yeah, those random pullover inspections were classic. I wonder what finally got those shut down.

Contrast that with this '70s car commercial. It says "banned" in the title, but there were still plenty of print ads that were just like this back then. I've got a car mag from '72 where a tire ad proclaims that the tires will last 500 more dates "depending on how far the girls go"

The Ohio State Highway Patrol is the most powerful lobby in the state.

I shouldn't have used the word "spendthift", that word actually means someone who spends a lot. I always forget that -- I should have used the term "thrifty" instead.

Yep, just like depression-era folks who kept their spendthrift ways throughout life.

Here it would have to be 3X higher because of all the lifted pickup trucks.