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Really, it's just an investment for Duke anyway. The more people use the streetcar, the more electricity it will use. I bet the payback period for Duke's "donation" is fairly short.

^I agree. There are some things that the average rider is better off not knowing.

All right! Now we can dump all of our complaints about Zanesville on Y-CityGuy! ;)

No Wrangler, Rustler or Canyon River Blues?

Asphalt, definitely. There are few, if any, permanent concrete road courses in the world.

^ I did a project on the Kieth-Albee theater in grad school. Fascinating building. It's got some of those sweet creepy old theater elements, like the big empty room that you walk through to get to the men's room. And the little theater off to the side is an interesting element.

After returning from Berlin, this pedestrian bridge makes me think of the building at Checkpoint Charlie in the '70s and '80s. "You are now leaving the Southern Sector"

^ Did they get paid at all? Minimum wage?

[quote author=gildone I know the transit systems need money, but I'm quite tired of advertising that is already beyond the saturation point. One of these days I'm going to come home, lift the lid on my commode, and see an ad that says "Drink Gatorade" or something. At least you'll be ready to piss on it!

^ See, this is the kind of stuff some companies in the corporate world are increasingly doing to completely take over employees' lives. If they are so focused on health care costs, they might have to get rid of their obese employees as well. We'll see how well that goes over.

Love fall. Sping is great on paper, but in Ohio a lot of the time it doesn't turn out like it should.

I'm not really a scooter guy (I like full-size bikes) but if I had one, I'd go for an '80s-'90s Tron scooter instead of the '60s look.

^ Charlotte is close enough to South Carolina that its sprawl does spread there.

^ Yeah, they have on in Ashville, (10 miles north of Circleville) too. They only give out prizes. According to the law, it's no different than Skee-Ball or the games they have at Chuck E. Cheese

Granted, I had just moved here, Max Headroom. hehe

You're right, that makes more sense. Those aren't legal anymore so they're gone too. Don't worry, Weirton is only an hour away!

I never knew about Tower Place until I stumbled upon it.

Typical Rolling Stone. There's no true depth in their articles, just a bunch of emotional language.

^ that's a cool bridge.

^Right, Kenwood was more like a conversion than a simple remodel.

Mall remodels almost never have a positive ROI. People want a clean, safe, well-maintained mall. Remodeling every three years does not make people spend. The only successful indoor mall remodeling I can think of is Eastland. Eastgate didn't tank, but I don't think they saw any profit from it. Most of the time, a mall melts down only a few years after it is remodeled -- Northland and Forest Fair come to mind.

Just a reminder that politics is a lie just like the movies.

To be more specific, he's referring to nitromethane-powered Top Fuelers and Funny Cars, not drag cars in general. Even though I support this project, I strongly recommend against running Nitro cars there. They are very, very loud, much louder than any other cars that would race there. You don't need Nitro cars to run a great racing program, anyway. Gasoline and alcohol drag cars will do the job nicely at this location. Besides, few people own Nitro cars because they are so incredibly expensive to build and run. Unless you've attended a Nitro-powered event, you can't fathom the amount of decibels (and, well, excitement) that they generate compared to other race cars.

I am in Florence almost daily these days and I have to say I don't like it very much. People really want to walk; you see people doing it all the time. The thing is, climbing over auto-oriented landscaping, chugging through ditches and trekking across colossal parking lots makes pedestrians look like they have no dignity -- even though they are actually very dignified because they walk anyway. One thing I've noticed about the area is that it is full of angled parking. In a lot, angle parking requires 30% more area than straight parking, making lots even more unnecessarily huge. Well, angle parking is 2% easier, so I guess it's a fair trade-off. <---sarcasm.

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