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“Uber’s elephant in the room is that its business model is fundamentally broken” https://www.forbes.com/sites/lensherman/2017/12/14/why-cant-uber-make-money/#6ab8eff910ec

Interesting article on heights: http://www.governing.com/columns/eco-engines/gov-urban-planning-vancouver-seattle.html

It was in the Business Courier in 2013.

Reading Rd and University(?) Ave in Cincinnati.

Pretty much how they do it in Utah: five counties and about a dozen municipalities have arts and parks taxes. But they do cover operations in addition to capital projects. I'm not sure how the board gets appointed, but there haven't been any major complaints about how funds have been awarded. http://www.co.weber.ut.us/ramp/

AIA take on GE building and The Banks, in general: http://www.architectmagazine.com/Architecture/general-electric-generic-building_o.aspx

Loading platform on Harrison: and on Gilbert: These don't appear to be the lights we're talking about.

Definitely not better: Bobby Dodd Stadium at Georgia Tech (200 North Ave NW, Atlanta, Ga.) http://binged.it/1kmrBT4

Of course, since the streetcar is "slower then a jogger", you should be able to avoid it!

"In most cases, the I-Team found the streetcar did not cause crashes. Often, people and vehicles would run or drive into the train." We had this same issue in Salt Lake. When TRAX first opened, every accident was big news until people, and reporters, realized that "Car turns in front of TRAX train" wasn't any different then "Car turns in front of truck." Also, a number of the TRAX pedestrian deaths seem to be suicides.

Finished product:

Yeah, New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Baltimore, DC, Miami, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, St. Louis, Charlotte, Dallas, Houston, Phoenix, Salt Lake City, Denver, Minneapolis, New Orleans, Atlanta, Tampa, Seattle, Portland, Sacramento, San Francisco, LA all got it wrong. We definitely shouldn't be emulating them, right? This city is a sad, sad joke. Not to rub salt in the wound, but you forgot Oklahoma City!

Pictures from HGC Construction's Facebook page of Walnut Hills renovation/addition:

I live in a city that has 4 year terms, but they're staggered; four seats this year, the other three seats in two years. This helps prevent "mood swings" where a single hot issue can affect the entire council. Works pretty well.

That's the site of Whittier elementary school, which burned down in 1958. http://www.cincinnativiews.net/schools_5.htm

I've always liked this site for migration data: http://www.irs.gov/taxstats/bustaxstats/article/0,,id=214138,00.html It tracks migration by tax return filings. One downside is it misses non-filers.

The Republican Congress passed a number of laws to "protect" private enterprise from "unfair" government competition. Regarding transit, I think the basic rule is that Metro can't bid on service that a private carrier can provide.

Then again, there's one in Centerville, Utah.

No you don't. I moved from Atlanta to DC in the late seventies, and remember being surprised how much less federal dollars were being provided to Metro compared to what Atlanta received.

Actually, its based on real exemptions, not quite real people. Unfortunately, it also leaves out many low income households since they may not file returns. But still, a nice tool. I wish they would publish zipcode-to-zipcode, and not just county-to county.

Actually, the Ogden streetcar project is moving forward again with the exit in a few months of the current mayor. It had been planned since about the time I moved out here (late 90's) to link the Frontrunner station (in KJP's post) with Weber State U and the neighboring hospital center. The mayor has been sabotaging it for years in favor of an urban gondola for his developer friends. Latest news: http://www.standard.net/stories/2011/08/20/wsu-tells-ogden-streetcar-system-desired Norm Tarbox Jr., WSU vice president of administrative services: "Back in the early 1990s, the University of Utah could not build parking lots fast enough to accommodate its influx of students, he said. Twenty years later, the university is converting its lots now that a third of day trips to the campus are accomplished by mass transit, he said."

In six years of riding the the #4 trolley bus to school, I think I actually saw that happen maybe two or three times. About once every two or three years!

The feature I most associate with Cincinnati pony kegs is that the customers remained outside. The door was often like a garage door, and inside was a raised platform (3 or 4 feet high, 12 ft square) on which there was a cash register, racks of chips and petzels, and a door leading to the cooler. And, knothole baseball depended on their sponsorship!

"Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. Lander, Wy., Buffalo, N.Y. and Syracuse, N.Y., places that routinely get pounded with 90 or more inches each winter." So 59.3 inches is "just as much" as 90 inches. And as a Utah resident the last dozen years, does the "beautiful winter scenery" include all the inversions?

The comments are really ripping the guy.