Ronnie

I have not seen anything that proposes less street parking on this issue that would have a significant impact on parking. I am regularly fixing computers for MVRPC and I see a lot of things while I am there. While there are a few parking changes on major arteries like Patterson and Monument, the smaller roads like 2nd, 1st, etc. would not see hardly any changes as far as parking is concerned. And I just don't see how this could make crossing a street any harder. It is not rocket science to look both ways before crossing a street, and what crosswalk downtown is NOT controlled by a crossing signal?? This should not be an issue as long as people are obeying the crosswalk signals. It is not a problem for people to cross Main or 3rd, so I don't think crossing 2nd or 4th would be any different. The 2-way street system is in use in a few smaller cities like Dayton and is working ok. When people wonder why nobody likes to go downtown, one way streets are part of those reasons. People simply do not like to drive them. You need to consider a great majority of people in and around Dayton just DO NOT go downtown very often and when they have to, a one way street system to them is scary and confusing. They would just assume not put up with it.

Just a new pic I found on ODOT of what "malfunction junction" should look like when completed. Not very big or detailed, but nice angle.

This has been an ongoing study for a few years now and I believe may have been or is close to being finalized. Supposedly, the conversion is scheduled to coincide with the I75/R4 interchange reconstruction beginning next spring. Dayton needs to go with a two way conversion. A lot of people just simply do not want to go downtown because of the one way street grid. It's confusing, harder to get where you are going and simply just an outdated concept. Heck, even I sometimes have a brainfreeze remembering what goes where, and I have been working downtown on and off for 15 years now. :weird: I really don't agree with any of the negatives listed, especially the pollution one. I cannot see how a one way street system can have anything to do with less pollution, especially since a it can make you drive endlessly in circles trying to get where you want to be, which in my eyes would actually be creating more pollution. As far as making it easier for pedestrians to cross the street, if you cannot cross a two way street as easy as a one way street, then you shouldn't be crossing the street to begin with. I have not heard of anything as far as losing parking spaces for the conversion, but I'm sure that was considered during the study. In all honesty, if Dayton was really smart about this, they would cut off some of the sidewalk widths downtown, add angled parking and along with this 2-way conversion, we would have one hell of a downtown driving AND parking solution! :speech:

Yea, I love it too. I am working on one that has both Carew and Omni together. I'll post it when I'm done, but it will probably be a while.

I'm a nerd for making diagrams? I would have accepted geek or dork, but I made it all the way up to nerdmanship? Wow!

I've been holding this pipe in place for 3 hours. Can you take over while I go to lunch?

I never realized that the LA area had this many "minor" downtown highrise districts outside of downtown LA. About how many miles do you think the panorama spans from one end to the other?

I figured out the blurry problem, they should look better now. Carew took me about 3 days, Tocho took me about a week if I remember correctly. My Sears Tower which isn't finished has taken about 2 weeks so far. This is on about 3 hours of work each day. I plan on doing a few more. Stay tuned to see those ;-)

These are in .jpg format, so they look a little fuzzy. I would have preferred to upload these in .png format, but my image hosting site won't allow me. Anyone know any better image hosting sites (for free)?

and my personal favorite, Tocho Building in Tokyo.

TransAmerica

Key Bank (not fully finished)

Kettering Tower

I worked on these a while back, but I never posted them...not even on SSP. These are 3 to 1 ratio (1 pixel = 1 meter). I'm working on some new ones, so I thought I would let you guys get the first glimpes. :clap: Carew Tower

Yes, that is me. Thanks!

I've been so busy, I haven't had too much time these days, but I'm starting to get back to the feel of things. :clap:

I think you may be referring to my pic? I simply touched up on my QCS diagram and popped it on the cincy pic. It's not exactly meant to be to scale, just to give you an idea of the location and how it would look with the rest of downtown. It will probably be just a bit taller than that.

Yea...that would be me. I posted that on the skyscraperpage.com quite a while back due to a response that I received in an e-mail that basically stated as soon as phase 1 is completed, the Western-Southern garage is coming down and phase 2 would start (somwhere in 2006). I no longer have that e-mail, but wish I did. I'm sure it won't start by 2006, but you never know. I think they really want to build this and it will be done.

Lets just lobby Ohio to build a totally new highway. One with 5 thru lanes in each direction with a new Ohio river crossing. Then turn I-75 into a museum and the theme would be "Great Engineering Blunders of the Highway World". It can have a hotdog stand...

So what's different then?? Why the waste of time on this issue? It sounds like to me nothing is going to change that currently exist! Boy Cincinnati...you really hosed out on this one! For shame to let 1 council member dictate a smoking policy for the rest of the city because there is a family owned bar involved...

I was wondering if you guys missed me or not! Heh...I have been off my computer for awhile. Should be checking things and starting political controversy again soon enough! :wave:

I serviced a computer in that building a few weeks ago. The interior is pretty nice! I was fairly impressed!

If highway engineers would just learn how to design a damn highway without bottlenecks, lane changes or exits too close to each other, then traffic flow would improve dramatically! I mean seriously...what idiots think that converging 2 or 4 lanes of highway traffic into two lanes would not create traffic problems?? It's not just a 50's design flaw, they are still designing highways like this today! It's funny now that when driving thru downtown Dayton, you see the painted "I-75 Thru Lane"s on the roadway. Has anyone noticed that there is only one "true" thru lane on I-75 in downtown in either direction? They don't need to widen a damn thing. Dayton is not that big of a town to need a 5 or 6 lane freeway. Just straighten out the mess and get rid of the bottlenecks. That's what is the root cause of the traffic problems! And old ladies...

The main reason western Montgomery County looks so undeveloped is because Dayton was founded on the banks of the Great Miami River which is on the eastern half of the county. Add to that, the lack of an expressways on the western end of Dayton up until the Trotwood Connector was completed a few years ago. I lived in Madison Twp before it became Trotwood for 20 years and there was hardly little if any development going on. Since the connector has been finished, I have seen a lot of development starting around it. Give it a good ten years and I'm sure it will start sprawling out like everything else. My hopes is that Trotwood will eventually raze the Drexel area and build new housing there. I think that would be a good jump start for west-end development.

Is the Florence city council on drugs or what? I lived in that area for almost 2 years and this is going to be something that I don't think Florence can handle. Mall Rd is like two miles long in that stretch they are talking about. It's going to be immensly expensive and take a long time to complete. I thought Florence learned their lesson with the Freedom Baseball Stadium?