jam40jeff

Haha, yeah that was a weak metaphor.

I'd rather have 7-8 buildings of 700+ foot height than 1-2 buildings ranging from 300-450 feet adjacent to one 550+ tower. :P

I know a number of people in the outer burbs who park n ride at a rapid station on both sides of town.

I didn't realize Meijer was moving into the area? Any competitor of Giant Eagle is a friend of mine! They're opening 4 of them...none of which are in Cuyahoga County.

jam40jeff[/member] Reports are that the Waterfront portion of GCRTA's Blue/Green rail lines will return to service before the end of the day Wednesday, Thursday at the latest, so it will be fully operational for this weekend's air show. Poor track Flats East Bank station to the end of line caused two minor derailments so RTA shut down the line. Emergency crews from Delta Railroad Construction are reportedly on site replacing track. Specifically, I'm told GCRTA had a problem with an interlocking where a switch (Turnout #125) wasn't locking at the end of the line, preventing trains from crossing over to the track inbound to Tower City. The two derailments were because of bad track on one of the curves near turnout 121 which appears to be be near the Port of Cleveland. Thanks! Good news that it's temporary. RTA really ought to communicate these things better. EDIT: Just read your previous reply. That makes sense that Joe C. would rather leave the public in the dark completely than have to admit a deficiency.

Thanks. The wording sounds suspiciously like it's a permanent elimination of the waterfront line. I hope I'm wrong.

Did I miss something? What's this all about? http://www.riderta.com/service-alerts/waterfront-line-replacement

That app seems broken. I upped the time to 90 minutes and it showed the reach to be exactly the same.

What was the app that he used? I was trying to figure that out, but I'm not sure. Apparently, it's not a very good one. :P I tried another site which I've used before and it gave drastically different results: https://www.mapnificent.net/cleveland/#13/41.4585/-81.7417/1800/41.4778/-81.7089 (I estimated his location as being near Fulton and Monroe.)

I don't understand the public transit map. The guy can't be more than 10-15 min from the W. 25th rapid station, which means he can *at least* get to downtown and W. 65th in less than 30 minutes, even with a wait for a train. Not to mention the 51 or 79 buses would both get you to Public Square in much less than 30 minutes.

Yeah, I don't understand why people have a problem with this. He's *acting* general manager. They will still do the proper search for the next general manager.

Young man. The fact you incorrectly spelled "mannequin" shows your (lack of) age! See, that's how I spelled it originally... then spell correct changed it... so I googled "manaquin" and the suggested search was manikin. My mind has been f**ked TIL...manikin is actually a word and has a very similar meaning to mannequin, although they are not synonyms or different spellings of the same word. I also learned that a manakin is a type of bird.

Understood, and if they make 3% annually they've got $57,000 to spend on uniforms annually, which is nuts I assume this will be used for all sports, not just football. That's what the article indicated. Nonetheless, the best D3 programs, like Mount Union, Wisconsin Whitewater, Linfield, Wheaton, Sewanee, etc. probably recycle uniforms for each sport every 3 years. This endowment will allow Case to accelerate that. Really, only football, basketball, baseball, and softball require uniforms over $30/unit, and only football requires a high volume of them. Case is in a really good place with this. You wouldn't believe how big uniforms can be in the recruiting process. Oh, yeah, don't get me wrong, it's definitely great for them. I wonder if they can use this for things like basketball shoes.

Understood, and if they make 3% annually they've got $57,000 to spend on uniforms annually, which is nuts I assume this will be used for all sports, not just football.

Someone lives in that? LOL, that was my first thought, too.

East 18th was the burbs. Ten acre lots!

Cleveland may have (marginally) wider downtown streets than Cincinnati, but I disagree that the feel is worse. For example, Cleveland's "Main Street", Euclid Avenue, is probably as wide as Vine St. in Cincinnati, but the feel is worlds different. There is a dedicated bus lane in each direction and one through travel lane. Traffic moves very slowly and the sidewalks are wide, encouraging pedestrian activity. Even a "highway feeder" like East 9th St., which is wider than Vine St. by one lane feels less like a highway due to having 2 through lanes in each direction plus parking. The one way streets encourage people to drive faster and make the street feel less pedestrian friendly in my opinion. Also, Cleveland has nothing like Central Parkway downtown. The closest thing would be Superior Ave. in terms of width (although it's not nearly as wide), but again, Superior has been cut down to one through lane, a dedicated bus lane, and a median. Not to get off-topic but Central Parkway doesn't go through downtown, it's an edge of it, much like Ontario Street in Cleveland being just as wide and the edge of downtown. Cincinnati has nothing as wide as Superior (or even Euclid) going through downtown, though. Different downtown plans in different eras. I see what you mean on Central, but my point otherwise was that although Cleveland's streets are wider, they are two-way with less lanes in many instances so they don't feel as "anti-pedestrian" as the width would indicate in many places. As far as the curb-to-curb width of Vine vs. Euclid...that wasn't my point. My point was to walk down each and see how it feels. I know that Cincinnati has narrower downtown streets. That's why it's frustrating they aren't set up better. One way streets wider than one lane are bad for everyone but people trying to get to the highway faster. OK, back to homelessness...

Yes, the southern end of the Warehouse District is a bit of a mess due to all the parking, and that intersection is probably the worst in downtown. What is frustrating about Cincinnati is that the streets are narrower than many cities so there is potential. (The hardest thing to change is the built environment.) The one way streets need to be ditched altogether IMO and the sidewalks be upgraded/widened in many areas.

Cleveland may have (marginally) wider downtown streets than Cincinnati, but I disagree that the feel is worse. For example, Cleveland's "Main Street", Euclid Avenue, is probably as wide as Vine St. in Cincinnati, but the feel is worlds different. There is a dedicated bus lane in each direction and one through travel lane. Traffic moves very slowly and the sidewalks are wide, encouraging pedestrian activity. Even a "highway feeder" like East 9th St., which is wider than Vine St. by one lane feels less like a highway due to having 2 through lanes in each direction plus parking. The one way streets encourage people to drive faster and make the street feel less pedestrian friendly in my opinion. Also, Cleveland has nothing like Central Parkway downtown. The closest thing would be Superior Ave. in terms of width (although it's not nearly as wide), but again, Superior has been cut down to one through lane, a dedicated bus lane, and a median.

If you want to know what absolute garbage cleveland.com has become, just check out the home page. The first section that looks like it could be an article (below the advertisement at the very top) is another advertisement in (light) disguise. The third section header is for "Featured Slideshows." And don't get me started about "infinite scrolling." Ugh, so much fail.

Misread that. An already bad joke wasn't going to make any sense at all.

Don't underestimate people's desire to bash Cleveland.

I took the ACT blindfolded while the proctor beat me over the head with a baseball bat, so I only got a 36.

I'm gonna be that guy... It's "lightning in a bottle". Lightening has a completely different meaning.

https://www.ohiohighered.org/content/fy2018_operating_budget OSU received $384 million from the state, CSU $75 million. That was not claimed. The claim was that the benefits are disproportional, which is quite different (and in my opinion, should be obvious). I cannot think of why I would need to prove that an important metric of the impact of funding to a region would be to measure it per capita. Do I really need to provide per capita numbers for you? Let's assume for argument's sake that the Cleveland and Columbus metro areas (a "good enough" approximation of the population of the respective local economies) are the same size. Even so, with the numbers I gave you above, Columbus is receiving over 5 times as much funding for its large public university than Cleveland. This is obviously going to have a larger impact on the local economy. If you need a link, create a link back to the first sentence of this paragraph and reread it. http://www.crainscleveland.com/article/20180605/blogs03/163991/case-western-reserve-ohio-state-are-nih-powerhouses Regardless of the overall impact of each university, in terms of ROI of our state tax dollars, you can't beat CWRU since it is a private university. Cleveland residents are heavily funding Ohio State but Columbus residents are not heavily funding CWRU. You're human, too.