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So they are building a parking garage not to address parking needs, but to address the perception of parking needs? Oh, Easton. This is the world in which we live. They don't even want to build the thing, but are forced to because it looks like they don't have as much surplus parking as an area full of surface lots.

I don't know if I'd want to own a bike that has trouble on anything but glass smooth pavement since there's so many things like train tracks, potholes, rough pavement and that "cobblestone" stuff that's getting popular in cities. Of course, I'm the kinda guy who mostly rides a BMX (race, not freestyle) around town.

You're showing your Ohioness by calling her Xenia instead of Xena.

Hiding air conditioners is a good idea anyway these days. Keeps meth-heads from stealing the metal.

That's right, Kasich shows up anytime somebody gets a job.

Shareholders are one thing but mutual fund managers are something completely different. Most stocks are held in mutual funds, so if some cranky outer-ring suburbanite with 10 loose shares of their own sells their shares because Duke struck a deal with the city to make the streetcar happen, so what? A mutual fund manager that's on top of things will come along and say, "Mmm, I saw that other towns have seen a lot of people move in near those rail lines like they have here near my town, New York City. Duke is posed to pick up some customers. I'm going to buy thousands of shares for my clients when I rebalance later this year."

Hopefully, I'll be able to spend the rest of my life without buying another automatic.

Ahahaha, somebody sent me this (as an MPEG) at least 5 years ago:

When you hear the Tocatta and Fogue in D Minor at the beginning, you know that you're in for some dystopian doom with Rollerball: It's iconic enough that they even used it for the '80s kid's game Crossfire:

City? Metro? What's the difference? Surely you can't expect "real estate people" to know these things.

I can barely see any evidence of the roadway it formerly served.

There were considerable environmental remediation problems associated with that site. ^ Indeed, old dry cleaners can border on Superfund sites sometimes.

Like anything nice built by the government in an urban area, there was tons of whining about this bridge by the sprawl posse. It did take a while, but it was worth it. There were other ways of getting across the Scioto when it was closed.

Anybody else get one of these in the mail? What fun; time to terrify people into spending money. http://www.liunaactionnetwork.org/site/DocServer/liuna_dm_4x6_JB_030712.pdf?docID=1101

If you really squint, it makes it look like the skywalk says "SNSNSNSN", reminding you that you just left the Short North.

Oooh, perhaps two straws might end up in the same soda glass while a Muzak version of "Earth Angel" plays.

Well, what ends up happening is that rail cleans up and destigmatizes the urban core. Over time, businesses move from the suburbs back into the city because the suburbs become uncool as compared to the city. The same way the city became uncool when the rail transit was removed the first time.

Oh, there's way more money to be made as a result of a crash than avoiding crashes. Capitalism. Only in the case of airplanes do they make an exception because people wouldn't fly if there were more place crashes.

Sounds more like a place for toddlers and tots to hang out.

That's definitely true. There aren't many people up here in Seabus that you run into on a daily basis that can talk about things that went on in town even in the '90s. Unless you're talking to someone you went to high school with.

Very difficult. During the 3C fight, no media would go to other states to see what they are doing. Even the Associated Press, an international media operation which had a Columbus-based reporter who was interested in going to other states, was denied it by his editor because they "didn't have the budget" for it. They do send reporters all over the world, so the real reason is it wasn't a priority for them to spend any money on it. Sounds like its the same deal with the Cincy Streetcar. In this void of information, the opposition can fill it up with lies and the public will believe it. I'm starting to notice that Ohio is a very isolated place politically. There's not much information that we take from the successes of other states -- we gotta do everything "our" way. I think it's a mindset left over from the '50s and '60s when Ohio was the center of the world and didn't have to care what other states did. When I was in D.C., people from Virginia and Maryland were always asking each other how things were handled in each others states.

If you can stomach more than a minute or two of MTVs "reality"-based programming, you'll barely see any cars. It's black luxury American SUVs everywhere, and its been like that for 10 years. GM has already been doing product placement all over the network. Frankly, MTV shows are just long SUV commercials. And they're saying they need to do more? How can they?

It's been done a lot nonetheless in the past, though!

Oh man, apartments over a hotel. That means picking up girls at the hotel bar and taking them up to your apartment to "show them the view".

Alright fellow Buckeye fans, here's something we hope you'll really like.