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You're going to have to explain your thoughts/reasoning behind that one.

I put the meeting on my calendar as well. Maybe there is something the BID can do.

I would like to know everyone's thoughts on an idea a co-worker and I were bouncing around. When I lived in Sydney Australia the transportation authority re-did all of the bus numbers so that they actually gave indication of the direction of travel and destination. 300 level buses were going to the west, 100 level buses were going to the north, 200 south, etc. The numbers would then get more specific and you could figure out what bus to take just by know the number system. Would a system like this work in Cleveland? Would it make public transportation easier to use for someone not familiar with the system?

How long did everyone wait for RTA yesterday in the snowstorm? I waited 3 hours for the 55X. This is why this city needs more RAIL!! Rail doesn't get effected by this weather. I believe the Rapids were only running a few minutes behind.

I think there is one issue that hasn't come up yet and how homeless/panhandling effects the development of downtown. When someone is camped out in front of your store on the sidewalk and effecting people trying to come in, I think that should be illegal...and it is currently, but no one is enforcing it. How about using newspaper boxes as personal storage lockers? Stuff like this isn't just bothersome it effects perception of whether they need to take a risk and invest in downtown.

I was in the airport on Sunday getting off a flight and heard an automated message telling me to take the Red Line from the Airport for, "Quick, Hassle-free Service." Sounds like RTA is finally getting the message about marketing.

I would agree with that, nice job of explaining.

I'm sorry, I think I need to clarify. I didn't mean it was a disaster taking the rapid from downtown to shaker, actually the ride is quite pleasant. The problem that I ran into was that RTA would send all of its trains back to the yard between 8:00-8:45 AM which left me sitting there for quite a while. I wrote a letter to RTA and they told me they were having some personal issues and that's why it was happening. It did get better after awhile but it still wasn't very fun sitting there and watching three trains go by before one that was in service would show up. As for the frequency of service in UC, I think I am just accustomed to the 7 minute 55X, which makes everything else seem so long to downtown. Sorry for the misunderstanding.

As someone who is fairly new to Cleveland, 2 years, and never visited before in my life, one of the reasons I was more attracted to the west side was the proximity to Downtown. I live in Edgewater and used to work in Shaker Square and it was the most dreaded commute I ever had. I would try to take the Rapid but since I was always going outbound when everyone was going in, it was a disaster. And I don't mean to offend anyone, but driving down Woodland from Downtown to Larchmere feels like a war zone. Now I work in Downtown and my commute is 10 minutes on the 55X. I love areas like Coventry and UC, but trying to use Public Transportation there is horrible, hopefully the EC will make things better. If they move the Rapid Station to Little Italy I think that will improve things as well.

I don't expect them to don flak jackets either or go on some sorta anti-thug rampage, but I just see a slippery slope approaching that can go two ways, both of which can end very very badly for the entire city. We keep hearing about how the city is loosing population and trying to attract young professionals with creativity. Alot of us live in the city and want to make the city better, this includes me. But if all of this keeps going on I see this YP group a)abandoning the city all together or b)fighting back in a not so peaceful way. Both of which will be disasterous. We need Jackson and Westbrook to be the leaders in making sure that isn't going to happen and help us find the solutions so that we can all live in this city peacefully. (Sorry about this rant but I've felt pretty passionatly all day)

The owner of the building has taken me on a couple tours of the place and its really amazing. He's preserving all of the interior architecture and leaving in the original windows. The only thing he's adding is some extra plumbing and electrical work. It has a long way to go but he's going for directly for-sale units rather than rentals. Some of the rooms even have the original functioning fireplaces.

I hope I don't sound like another wack job whose just looking to start a fight, but my patience is really coming to an end. I live on Lake Avenue and West Boulevard, I walk to the West Blvd. Rapid Station, I bike downtown, and live only a few blocks from this Deli. On Sunday I was riding my bike home from the Tremont Arts Festival when a couple of kids threw a basketball at me at 75th and Franklin (the same block where the CSU professors/artists were killed). They managed only to hit my tire and I kept riding, but I just kept fuming more and more on the way home. I seriously wanted to stab three 14-year-old kids. What is this saying about the current situation? We're reaching a boiling point in this area. I've always been someone who tried to understand the situation rather than be reactionary towards it and even I am starting to look for a fight. What happens next time...someone throws a baseball at someone in a car? What if that person snaps and decides three less ghetto thugs is what the world needs? Do we need the Cleveland Boondock Saints? Someone please tell me there has to be a better way before I am the one who gets a baseball thrown at my car.

Fairmount was the developer for First & Main in Hudson. Maybe its not so bad afterall? :| P.S. I'm new here...so I'll try to keep my comments fairly educated.