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Hey wait a second, you can't just call your bar "Dive Bar". That's for other people to determine, though what was there certainly fell into that category.

Yep, just putting up signs isn't going to slow that many cars down. The ones that do slow down will be tailgated to no end or speeders will just juke and jive their way their way through traffic. Proper urban design and traffic engineering will slow cars and stimulate entrepreneurial spirits.

No portion of the Interstate Highway System may be tolled. While I-80 is shown on maps as part of the Turnpike, they only do that to make navigation easier. Same with I-77/64 and the WV Turnpike. I-71 would have to be decommissioned through Columbus and changed over to a toll road.

I don't use Twitter now, but if I ever become homeless it might come in handy.

It will go back up again soon. The wholesale price is back up to 3.28 +/- so add 60 cents or more to come up with the retail price. Indeed true, KJP. That was yesterday's price. Today it is $3.89 at the same station.

It's been dropping in Columbus; $3.65 now.

Hyperbole equals ratings. There is no room for modesty in today's fragmented broadcasting climate with ad revenue so difficult to obtain.

I actually don't see the Brewrey District Kroger's parking lot as that much of a problem since it isn't nearly as large as the Kroger lot on say, the South Side or for a Cincy comparison, the Spring Grove lot. But the main thing that helps mitigate it's impact is that it lies behind the buildings on Front St., has a small alley leading to it on it's north end and is surrounded by buildings. It doesn't create nearly the gap in the urban fabric that is often seen with surface lots -- reminding me more of small town municipal lots that are away from the main parts of the CBD but let businesses survive in today's transportation climate. Indeed though, the new High St. Kroger just north of the Short North is a better example.

Kroger did open a fairly nice store in Columbus' Brewery District a couple years ago. I shopped there yesterday, and have been pleased with it's design. It has windows and the interior does a somewhat good job of approximating the old brick warehouse/brewery fell of the area.

I think urinals have to be used often or else they wind up stinking up the house.

I don't remember seeing toilets like that, but I didn't go #2 anywhere besides hotel rooms and that one on the Rhine.

Hmmm. I recall seeing men use urinals there but they may not have been Germans.

Oh man, one time I used this public toilet on the shores of the Rhine in Wiesbaden, Germany. It was in a small building dedicated to the toilet. After I put some coins in the slot, the door whisked open and I entered. The door slowly closed behind me as a relaxing voice in German (they do exist) gave me some instructions essentially telling me to enjoy my dump. Then the most wonderful, relaxing music began to play. The seat was perfectly shaped, it was just the right height and everything was immaculate. Americans complain about having to pay to use the restroom overseas, but you get your money's worth. Over here, you go in the men's room a lot of times and it will be filthy, you pinch your nose and say "P.U." upon entering, someone's peed on the toilet paper, and the stalls are rusty and have been ripped out of the wall by some rage-o-holic. Also they don't make refills for the soap machine built into the counter -- they leave out a filthy bar of soap, there's no paper towels plus they sell that terrible circular "Lifestyle" gum in the machines that tastes like rubber. Of course, the door lock and dryer are broken.

I'd imagine that some of these guys that are really hardcore against the streetcar are afraid of their suburban investments losing value if the streetcar and development around it becomes "too" successful.

When I was in undergraduate "general business" school 10 years ago, I sure had a lot of free time as compared to a lot of the other majors.

Not to get too off-topic, but there's another forum that I go to (also a Simple Machines) that pops up a warning when somebody else's post slides between yours and the one you were responding to. There might be a setting for that in here.

300mph? :-D

Have fun with this one, gang. Note that it's Dublin, GA, not Ohio... no Channel 13 in Columbus. More: http://www.13wmaz.com/news/story.aspx?storyid=124242

Rain's coming down pretty good right now at my shop which is about a mile from the ODOT HQ. I hope they think about what they've done while they're hydroplaning on the way home.

We are very lucky to have Nationwide here in Columbus. I think the difference between the big companies you mention in Cincinnati and Nationwide or BofA is that their products are intangible. Intangible products require a lot of promotion and tie-ins to build the brand, so their budgets for that portion of the marketing mix are much larger. Duke did pledge $6M toward the streetcar.

Is a "bad" future, or one that doesn't result in all of today's excesses? By extension, is any kind of scaled back use of machinery in everyday life is a "loss", since continuing its use is "winning"? Only a small part of our happiness comes from all these machines that we've got whirring away at all times; the lack of misery brought on by improvements in medical devices is responsible for most of that.

Just getting ready for Cincinnati Urban Neighborhood Transit.

Go grab any single copy of Popular Science from the '50s and count up what percentage of the technologies featured turned out exactly as planned.

Here's a better explanation than mine. Our gasoline prices have moved (at least temporarily) to being heavily influenced bu the price of Brent crude ($126) rather than WTI ($110): http://www.cnbc.com/id/41990167/Why_Brent_Not_US_Crude_Is_a_Better_Gauge_for_Oil_Prices

Gasoline and crude prices don't move together in lockstep. One explanation might be that the other substances produced from crude are in less demand than they were in 2008 while gasoline is in higher demand.