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UTA gets stimulus money for Mid-Jordan line By Matt Canham The Salt Lake Tribune Updated: 05/07/2009 06:37:18 PM MDT Washington » The federal government is pumping $91 million in economic stimulus money into the Utah Transit Authority's planned Mid-Jordan light rail line, according to Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood. http://www.sltrib.com/utahpolitics/ci_12320033 http://www.rideuta.com/files/03MidJoFEISch02fig2-06.pdf

^ Funny what a mass transit station did for White Flint.

And now for some positive press: Pleasant Ridge is one of the five green schools highlighted in this AFT publication. http://www.aft.org/topics/building-conditions/downloads/BMMB_GREENGUIDE.pdf BTW, really like that Maywood HS in LA.

Gee, I think we had primaries well before Berding was born; but Instant Run-off Voting is something that should be seriously considered. Not only would it save money but would make candidates much more responsive to the voters rather then their party. Just because a candidate is only favored by 10% of the voters doesn't mean that their concerns should be addressed. Probablya reason why so many people don't bother to vote.

And probably because the west side has a much higher percentage of rental properties.

Drug test politicians! They have to be on drugs to act the way they do.

They've recently added 1956 for Cincinnati. This really shows the UC expansion.

How did you get inside Withrow & Walnut?

It was "undergrounded" in the late fifties/early sixties and covered with the reflecting pool (pic #115.) Don't know why they left some of the old structure.

When I first moved to Washington, DC in the late 70's, there were several of these around the Metro Center area. Most people continued to cross in the traditional manner rather then wait for all the traffic to stop. DC got rid of most, if not all, of them by the mid 80's. The feeling was that the longer cycles slowed vehicular traffic without much added benefit for pedestrians. This also coincided with the Federal mandated right turn on red rules, which DC fought. Not sure how that affected things.

The light rail in Salt Lake recieved the same kind of opposition even though we were getting significant federal help due to the Olympics. Plans had to be cut back, and there was even a proposal in the state legislature to keep the Utah Transit Authority (UTA) from using the State's name! Of course, now that the system is so successful (and we're at the bottom of the Federal priority list), all the suburbs are clammering for extensions to their communities. What was key here, was having people see a success, even if smaller then originally planned.

Bingo! It was the classic "curb appeal" sales job. Get people to fall in love with it, then slowly hit them with the real costs once they're already committed. It's shenanigans like this that give the anti-spending folks ammunition to defeat the truly deserving projects.

If this wasn't so sad, it would be funny. Well, OK, it's still funny! Sidewalks= Dream! Make it so I can walk to school in Kaysville By RUTH MALAN KAYSVILLE -- Nine-year-old Braxton Hartmann has a dream. He dreams of the time when he will be able to walk or ride his bike to school. Braxton, a third-grade student, rides a bus to Snow Horse Elementary School because there are no sidewalks along Angel Street and his parents feel it isn't safe for him to ride his bike. "Cars cross over double lines," Braxton said. "I want to ride my bike or walk to school because I want to keep in shape for soccer. It is probably a lot of money for schools to use buses when we could just walk to school." So Braxton e-mailed Mayor Neka Roundy and offered to help the city raise money to provide sidewalks. Councilman Ron Stephens called Braxton an "unusual young man," saying he had a neat idea and a wonderful dream. "I was so impressed, I called him and talked about ideas and dreams. We share a dream for a sidewalk on Angel Street," Stephens said. ........ http://www.standard.net/live/news/166119/

Here's a few facts - Cincinnati doesn't have a clear vision on how to expand the streetcar nor the incorporation of commuter rail and LRT into our region. City Blights confirms edale! :)

I guess it depends on your definition of most, but the aggressive LA approach toward juveniles whose involvement in gangs is likely to be ephemeral, drives these kids into gangs when they otherwise would mature to be productive, law abiding citizens.

The Los Angeles approach seems to be the case study in how not to address the gang situation, and is probably making the problem much worse. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/13/us/13gang.html?ref=us

I don't think it ever caught on in the U.S. While there were a good number of public structures in the style, it seems most homes were in "period" styles: mock tudors, colonials, etc. Perhaps Art Deco was too European for Americans, and we wanted to isolate ourselves.

It is RIDGE Point.

"Twenty other cities": great point. This constant mentioning of Portland, and Portland only, clouds the fact that many, many cities (and even big towns) are running, building, planning, or investigating streetcars. I think it hurts the pro-streetcar argument by making it sound like a quirking pacific northwest thing rather the mainstream. Cincinnati quirky? No. Cincinnati mainstream? Well maybe!

Name the places, and the types of fixed rail systems, that brought development with no subsidy. . In the 1980's I lived between Old Town Alexandria and the future King St. station for the Washington Metrorail. I witnessed massive development in that run down, vacant lot area over that decade. These developments were not getting what most people would consider massive subsidies (if any at all.)

I don't think anyone can show me development near a streetcar that was not also caused by massive government subsidies. Dean, you just lost me there. I have lived in a number of places where development followed "a fixed rail system" without any other massive subsidy. Granted, there's some vagary with massive (how much is that?) and some argument with caused (couldn't any development in downtown be said to be caused by stadium subsidies?) Care to clarify that statement? What do you really mean?

The primary purpose of the streetcar is to serve as a pedestrian circulator downtown. The majority of those pedestrian trips will originate inside of the streetcar service area. I don't think this idea is stressed enough. I worked for years near Union Station in Washington, and would Metro to other offices, lunches, and shopping several times a week. While I Metro'd to work, even those that drove would use the Metro as a downtown circulator. Beside the people who live or work in downtown Cincinnati using the streetcar, I can see people driving downtown and parking around Fountain Square and using the streetcar to get to an "expanded" downtown. Far more then would walk to, or get back in their car at Fountain Square, and drive up to the places served by the streetcar.

^So Cleveland RTA has 57.3 million passenger trips, while Cincinnati Metro has 22 million passenger trips, which would imply significantly more transit use in Cleveland. It would be interesting to see passenger miles in addition to passenger trips.

http://www.cmw.osfc.state.oh.us/guest/photonoedit.cgi?1092284+2008-10 sigh!