Eigth and State

"The Center Cities need to come down." -Le Corbusier

Don't forget about existing underutilized space, including 2 and 3 bedroom single family houses in the inner ring suburbs and outer suburbs that have only 1 or 2 people in them.

For comparison, when the GM plant in Norwood closed in 1987, about 4200 workers were laid off at once.

There is a new bike path under construction parallel to MLK between Cilfton Avenue and Central Parkway. It's not open yet, but it's built. It crosses Dixmuth Avenue and a driveway or two, but has very few crossings. It negotiates the hill at Central Parkway with a pair of hairpin turns. The other side of MLK has a sidewalk. I'm interested to see how this turns out.

Politics aside, the practical improvement in my opinion is to close the I-75 Covington Ramps and improve access from I-75 to the Clay Wade Bailey Bridge on the Ohio side, making the Clay Wade bridge serve as a long ramp to Covingron. If there is to be a toll plaza on I-75, it should be at the top of the hill near Kyles Lane, because there is room there and because it is at the top of the hill.

"If you want to make enemies, try to change something." - Woodrow Wilson

^In those days that Keller's did well, the Mitchel Avenue Kroger hadn't been built yet and the Corryville Kroger hadn't been remodeled. Clifton Natural Foods is still on Ludlow but you can't buy a gallon of regular cow's milk there.

Lately I've been driving a vehicle that automatically shuts off the internal combustion engine at stops. It's not my car, and I don't know how it works, but it seems like a conventional car with a feature that stops and starts the engine automatically, while keeping all of the accessories such as the radio, A/C, etc, in operation. So, pure-electric cars now have to compete with hybrids as well as high-efficiency conventional cars.

Seagulls! :laugh:

Nice. Thanks for posting.

^Funny that the Mercator projection is criticized for making Europe bigger (and by association with size making it seem more important,) yet National Geographic, while using the Fuller projection, STILL feels that Europe is important enough to warrant a detail insert. The real reason why the Mercator was invented is that it has special properties for navigation: a straight line between two points on the flat projection will give the correct astronomic bearing to follow to get from one point to another. The fact that it distorts the size to make the higher latitudes look bigger may actually be an advantage to those living in those latitudes, because, you know, other projections would require detail inserts to show all of those little countries in Europe. :-D

^Whoops, I didn't realize that the map came from National Geographic, which of course has to be the leader in cartography. Are they making a statement by using a different map projection?

I just today by chance found this fuller projection on a main stream news site. This is got to be the first time I have ever seen one of the lesser-known projections anywhere other than a map geek forum. I have to admit it threw me for a second, even though I had just been reading this thread about projections.

Who pays you for this again?

A buddy of mine drove a car from Bejing, China, to Paris, France, a distance of about 6000 miles. It took 35 days, which included 30 days of driving and 5 rest days. About 7 of those days were in Europe minus Russia. 28 days were in China, Mongolia, and Russia. That gives an idea of how big Asia is compared to Europe.