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I wonder how many people get shot and mugged carpooling? If you are against light rail, streetcars and buses it makes all kinds of sense that carpooling is just as crazy. I mean look, you're going to be trapped in a small space with another person with no control over your own destiny. ANTI-AMERICAN! At least they are consistant, I'll give them credit for that.

MyTwoSense, I forgot not everyone lives in downtown Cincinnati :-D The lowest corner unit in this picture is mine.

Not so, the units facing East have balconies also.

Remember I'm on the second floor, so the other units will have even better views. This is the view from my living room, you might not get the scale here, but the ceiing here is 16' high. And from the bedroom,

Every unit has a balcony and a huge opening window. I do wish they had a few more windows that opened for cross ventilation. The place is going to blow your minds when you see it.

At the OTR 5k last Saturday the Metro had a info stand and I started gabbing with one of the gentlemen there. He stated that the servce was orginally setup to get people from the burbs to downtown but they realize the world has now changed with people living downtown working in the burbs and people in the burbs working in other areas. He said they are releasing a big survey this summer and will be looking at how best to adjust the routes. Maybe with the streetcar some of the lines won't have to penetrate into downtown as far, and be some of the expresses can deadend in the uptown area, with UC providing free rides thats the complaint I hear the most everyone working at UC has to hit downtown first adding a half hour to their rides. jmecklenborg, I can believe it, I know a couple guys are totaly against the streetcar because its not fair I already have a free ride into work.

Thats it, WYSIWYG. Once the railings are finished they are adding some red architectural features and the exterior is finished.

Property owners complained about the height of the building so the parking level was lowered throwing the proportions off. I'm not a fan of the silver siding they've used. I really like this angle.

I don't know, I think from the Central Ave and McFarland sides its starting to look really good. The 4th St facade is growing on me also. But them I'm looking at it a couple times a week so its not shocking to me as it would be to someone who sees it infrequently.

Didn't he say something like a mother of four was shot, like that should have ended the whole arguement right there. I was telling thomasbw last night, the guys that work with me and live outside the loop seemed to be mad I already have it too good with a free 8 minute ride to work while they're spending $100+ a week on gas. That seems to be the biggest gripe they have with the streetcar.

Well MyTwoSense I could help you out some, could it be they are the cheapest cabinets available? I think down the road money permitting, our kitchen will be redone.

They've released pictures of units 200 and 201. Looking good. These aren't my pictures, I would have scaled them down. Looks like we'll have to keep the tops of the cupboards clean, never thought of that before.

I would really like to see the city do this themselves and give a BIG you're number #1 to the state and county.

Coincidence? LOL

Jimmy_James, definitely, at Parker Flats every time they sold 5 units they jacked the price up at least 5k on the remaining units. Of course its all on paper but we've made a ton of imaginary money on our condo already. So some of the early buyers maybe speculators, believe me I would have bought a unit at the Edge just for that reason but Ms. 5chw4r7z vetoed it.

I think developers only need 25% presale to start on a project. You know, with the internet everyone expects instant gratification from everything now. The one area the internet hasn't changed is construction, these things take time. I'm going on three years since I've purchased at Parker Flats and I've heard from people in LA who've told me thats nothing, their son worked on a project that stretched out 5 years before people started moving in. If I hadn't already bought something I'd be patiently waiting on the Edge, its going to be awesome when its done.

Where is this conspiracy stuff coming from? Am I that wacko in thinking that its the yuppies or whatever you want to call them that will turn OTR around? Listen who has money for development? People with money. Is this really that hard to understand? Of course the streetcar isn't going to benefit Madison Rd/Erie Ave directly. But when Hyde Park and Oakley sell themselves to the world they can't sell Hyde Park Square, They are selling Fountain Square, the river and hopefully one day the banks and the streetcar.

These are the same guys piling on the streetcar. How low can they possibly go? Does Shaking The Nozzle Give You More Gas?

Why are the "money men" by default evil? The homeless people haven't done a sterling job of turning downtown around now have they? Why is it so important they stay and we make sure no-one makes a dollar on anything? The whole basis of the American way of life is making a buck. If someone can make a killing redeveloping OTR well good for them, they are after all taking a risk that other people aren't willing to take. We need to make it easier for money men to make a killing money wise in Cincinnati, not harder.

Small world KJP, thats pretty wild, what were their names? I guess depending on what they reported on, maybe they never had cause to ruffle any feathers or step on toes? I can't imagine mass transit would even be on the radar in Youngstown. Poland, Canfield and Austintown make the Westside here look relativity liberal. You're still killing me though, "getting more than one source", sort of like the one-sided reporting here? Lets meet one Fountain square and hug it out. :-D

Interesting as I knew more than a few reporters at the Youngstown Vindicator who ran into brickwalls all the time in what they wanted to write vs. what the management wanted them to say. We always got our breaking news from the Plain Dealer. I even knew knew an editor who went to bat for a writer and then ended up quiting in discuss and taking a job in another state. So I don't feel I'm talking out my ass.

About the media And they are making the same mistakes we are so its a vicious cycle. But I believe the few journalist who are sympathetic to the streetcar probably are not allowed to portray it professionally.

I understand its human nature, but I've really noticed it as a transplant, the people who complain loudest about nothing ever changing complain the loudest when things change. For instance Fountain Square, guys I work with who haven't been there in eight years complain the loudest about how its changed. It wouldn't be bad if it was constructive criticism, but it seems especially spiteful, or is it me? Someone else had mentioned this before, if it happened in Newport, everyone would use it as a shining example of how they get things done and Cincinnati doesn't.

Which is the whole point of CoolTownStudios.com, walkable, walkable, walkable

carbon Foot print via Cooltown Studios Carbon footprint per passenger mile For those of you wondering what the carbon impact is between walking, riding and driving, the folks at the Sightline Institute, a nonprofit sustainability research center, provides an answer with clarity. Some insights from the graph: - You can't get much greener than a walkable community. - It's easy to see why SUVs get such a bad rap, though a solo hybrid is no better than a 3-person SUV carpool. - It's easy to see why hybrids get such good press, though that's only when it's compared to other cars with the same number of passengers. - The best way to calculate carbon impact per car passenger is to divide the carbon impact for a solo driver by the number of passengers. - A 4-person carpool is greener than transit only if everyone else is 4-person carpooling as well. In other words, an infrastructure that allows a 4-person carpool is going to attract ten times as many solo drivers. - You can't get much greener than a walkable community. Worth repeating. Even more worth executing.