Cleburger

It's not personal. And it's not Dennis alone. We have other representatives in the Greater Cleveland area who are failing to bring home the pork.

Oh for Pete's sake. This is getting off-topic. http://www.cagw.org/reports/pig-book/2010/pork-database.html Search by representative to find every appropriations bill with Dennis!' name attached. You can click on the hyperlinks to look at different fiscal years. Now let's please get back to transportation projects specifically funded by the stimulus package. I rest my case Confiteordeo--a quick look at Dennis' pork collection shows only one transportation project on the link you provided as well. Take a drive down Clifton Blvd on a rainy night and tell us it doesn't need funding for resurfacing! It's like a 19th century wagon-track!

Do you have a reason for doubting this validity of this report or are you just Nay-Saying becaus you are Republican? Just asking... What's to doubt? The results are there--there is one project (in this particular report) in our area. ONE! My point is, where are our representatives when it comes to bringing this money to Cleveland? What has Dennis! delivered to my district? I don't subscribe to either party--I really think they are one in the same.

All of this stands to reinforce the significance and importance of the West Shoreway conversion. The Clifton/Baltic neighborhood is still hanging on to it's once-great past. I think this is Cleveland's greatest shot to connect one viable area to another, something it always seems to have trouble doing. We build pockets, but can never seem to connect them. The Shoreway conversion is a GREAT opportunity to connect Clifton/Baltic to Detroit Shoreway and hopefully also Ohio City and add onto the pockets that already exist! :clap:

A quick search of this yields only one hit for Ohio and Cleveland--the Mayfield Rd Station. Unless my PDF search function is not operating properly?

There are no panhandlers in Strongsville, Brunswick, Brecksville or Beachwood. Except for the occasional freeway exit ramp solicitor, but most of these are charged with some sort of first degree felony by the suburban police departments. ;) I think any of us active on this urban-centric site can safely say they have encountered panhandlers and do not feel threatened in the slightest. I am sad to say I know plenty of Susy Strongsvilles and Bobby Brecksvilles that do not frequent downtown because their narrow perceptions are these panhandlers pose some sort of threat. During these down economic times they are more inclined to feel this way. Agree with you punch--the panhandlers will not go away, they will only be in better surroundings should we redesign the square. The only thing that will reduce their numbers is legal action (which lacks precedent to enforce) or improving the jobs/economic outlook, which may take some of the fringe panhandlers off the street and back into gainful employment. I am for the latter--it's all about the jobs. We can polish Cleveland any way we see fit, but without new economic development the decline shall continue.

I have no evidence or time to actually check his numbers vs others. My rant is purely based on what I see around me--which is crumbling Cleveland infastructure on the near West Side. To this day at quick glance at the website Recover.gov it seems like Cleveland isn't busting at the seams with funding. I did, however, read many stories last summer of anti-stimulus congressional members ranting in public and on the floors of their respective houses while at the same time writing countless letters begging for funding. Remember--it's only pork if it's something spent outside of your district.

I wouldn't be surprised to see that more than 50% of the stimulus funding ended up in GOP controlled districts. I remember reading last summer while some Senators were arguing against it on the Senate floor their staffs were busy churning out letters requesting funding. I ask Dennis Kucinich in my district--where is our pork? My streets and sidewalks are crumbling! Meanwhile some Tea-party backed anti-stimulus guy has sound barrier walls being constructed in his Columbus suburb. Grrrrrr! :whip:

I once received a verbal dressing down from a mean ole RTA lunch lady at Tower City who wanted to verify the ages of my children riding on their child all day passes (they were aged 5 and 7 at the time). Apparently I had violated the definition of "child." When I told the employee that when I sat down on the ground :wink: to buy the passes at West Blvd, the touch screen did not indicate age groups and perhaps they should do so. She replied that it was not her problem. I threatened her to call the police on my 5 year old daughter and she finally let us pass.

There is no secret to the section process. It's not about what you know. Or how good your band is. It's about who you know. And if you ain't in bed with Jan Wenner, your chances go down.

Is there any way to rebuild Peabody's, Fagans and the Basement? :lol: An entertainment district with a casino up the street is looking better and better !

And if the we are comparing the Chicago Skyway to the Innerbelt Bridge then the Bay Bridge in Frisco must be a fair comparison also. The point here is there is a need for it--a well lit, safe, covered or uncovered bike/pedestrian path connecting Tremont to Downtown makes sense.

The new Bay Bridge being built in San Francisco also has a dedicated pedestrian/bike way. For that matter so do bridges built in the 19th century. One from Brooklyn to Manhattan comes to mind...

I don't live in Tremont, but could see all of your points just from riding in the area. A weather-protected, well-lit walk/bilkeway would do wonders for the marketability of the neighborhood to former suburbanites.

This bridge should ABSOLUTELY have pedestrian and bike access. The biggest problem with Cleveland neighborhoods is they end up as pockets of development and never really spread beyond their little "safe zones". A safe, well-lit walk/bikeway between Tremont/Duck Island/Downtown is a great way to build this connectivity. Is it too late to pressure ODOT on this?

Ahh the Democrats vs Republicans dog and pony show continues, meanwhile America's infastructure continues it's steady decline. Anyone care to take a wager on what percentage of stimulus funds end up going to the "Party of No" and their "Red" states and districts while the Dems give up the rhetoric of "cooperation" to their "Blue" state and district constituents?

Don't forget the political patronage associated with concrete sound barrier walls in the burbs. Euclid should get new ones at least every 7-10 years. ;)

Well the good news is we only have to live with this monstrosity for the next, what, 150 years? A pedestrian/bike lane would make it at least tolerable if we have to live with this sleeper freeway bridge.

Great to see this moving forward! Not sure if everyone will agree, but I have always felt that if Detroit Shoreway is key to the near West Side. If it can get going, it will connect Ohio City to the already viable (though slipping) Clifton/Edgewater area and keep things moving forward.

Thanks for the explanation KJP---makes sense. And whatever it is--I do hope it happens to re-energize one of Cleveland's great neighborhoods.

I've tried to start a new thread for this project, which is exclusive of any talks of BRT, and the moderators keep kicking it back onto this thread.

Another story hit the paper today about the Enhance Clifton project. Since this is not limited to a transport or BRT project I thought it might be deserving of it's very own thread. From Cleveland.com: Conceptual designs for the Clifton Transportation Enhancement Program sparked many suggestions at a public work session Aug. 11 where officials from the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority, Lakewood and Cleveland met with residents and other interested parties. Complete article at: http://www.cleveland.com/sunpostherald/index.ssf/2010/08/ideas_offered_for_clifton_boul.html

If you knew any of the bar owners in the late 1990's they all said Mike White sent the inspectors in to shut them down without even giving them a chance to correct code violations of varying degrees. Now, granted, places like Fagans had more than others, but the vast majority were minor infractions that could have been corrected. Wolstein was waiting in the wings for the land grab, and we should all collectively blame him for what is there now. Cleveland's viable tourist destination was systematically wiped off the map in a backroom deal designed to enrich the private/public partnership of Wolstein and White.

Yes must be for solely ADA reasons. In typical Bureaucrat fashion they will redo these, just to have them torn up again next year (hopefully) as a part of the "Enhance Clifton" streetscape project. But progress is progress, right? Now if they could just bump up the timeframe on the rest of the project to take care of the crumbling sidewalks and rutted boulevard!

So out of curiosity -- Clifton Boulevard? Chagrin Boulevard? Oh, I should have read on for that explanation. I can't speak for Chagrin, but once upon a time Clifton was a tree lined median and boulevard. That is the point of the current Enhance Clifton project: http://www.enhanceclifton.com/