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Nationwide Blvd. tapers down quite quickly but unceremoniously here.

You know a lot of the development in the vicinity is getting kind of... old (>20 years). People were of a different mindset back then -- at least around here.

We know of course residents might blow their top over switches from school districts to county schools but the real estate industry would as well.

Or Lexington, Indy and Jacksonville. It almost seems like there was a specific time period to do it -- that period being the late '60s/early '70s when there wasn't this ridiculous urban/suburban divide. If someone did live in a suburb they still had sympathy for the city because they worked there, shopped there, went there for entertainment and still had friends and family there. They couldn't just do everything in the suburbs like they do now since they were just residential and maybe a mall. But as to how Louisville did it so late I can't say. Underfunded suburbs and the fact that Kentucky has county schools? County schools means there isn't any geographic advantage due to in-county borders regarding education.

Yeah it sucked once it started getting busy in the early 2010s. Like a lot of the traffic in the Rickenbacker vicinity, you never had to think about it but now you do. I'm still not used to it. I'm late to tons of stuff.

I'll brag that I was one of the first people through it haha. I drove past at 7 and it was closed. By 8:30 I saw a truck full of signs driving by and knew it had to be open then.

I think a lot of us were under the impression that it was going to be on the site of the old gas station/Dough Boyz but it is actually across the road at the former site of Steeplechase Elementary.

There certainly is a lot of rent-seeking in the segment right now. But nobody is rent-seeking say, $27K.

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Sounds like Stalions was allowed to run wild to all those games

Haha good point. He's the second coming of Lashutka

BTW stuff like this is why actual Leftists don't trust Ginther. We are so far ahead of him on this. This is like something Rheinhardt would do.

Maybe it will turn out like Marion. Marion has great "flow" and isn't "choked up".

Trick-or-Treat! They were rail opponents dressed up as BRT advocates! They still got their candy though

Looks like its going in where the old Hocking Valley PNC branch was.

There is a lot of red tape in Columbus. We are in the middle of a revamp on our 1950s-era zoning laws in the city and a lot of our suburbs are difficult to deal with. Now Lancaster is an example of a developer-friendly city in the metro but its population and growth rate aren't super high. Just too far away from the good Dublin/Worthington/Westerville/Polaris jobs.

Housing in Columbus is absolutely bonkers. You'd think higher interest rates would bring it down but the need outpaces the interest rate difference. And large multifamily projects have gone on hold due to rate hikes.

I turn down social things all the time because the amont of driving you have to do to be social in adulthood is exponentially higher than in say college. You have been driving all week then someone from college wants you to come see them. It's not 5 blocks anymore, now it's 3 hours of driving around in the dark by yourself after working all day.

What do you mean ant's-eye-view and tons of work in post is inappropriate for journalism?

But if a building is over 100 years old everyone oohs and ahs and takes selfies in it. Even though buildings from that time were way worse at all of this. People think everything 40-80 years old should come down and they felt like that 40-80 years ago. Even if there are legitimate concerns aired about the building (which there almost always are) if the building is old enough no one cares. Buildings 40-80 years old don't get that privilege. That's how you get entire neighborhoods leveled. We have barely any mid-century in Columbus left besides SFH and campus. The number one thing keeping bands away is proximity clauses in contracts. And they keep bands away from every city in-state and surrounding states.

2008 made birthrates go in the crapper. So if you want First-World society to end, just lift regulations.

We are all Lawrence County now.

Hmmm, wonder if it became structurally unsound.

Just to the right of the dropoff area in the Just to the right of the dropoff area. Bottom center. You can see the end of an elevated road with Jersey barrier just before the end. No cars on it.