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Have you heard anything @mack34?

So mostly a national game

I think we may see a manufacturing operation. I hinted at it in my article, pointing their press release which touted NE Ohio's logistics metrics. Why do those matter for a corporate HQ??

Cabinet-maker MasterBrand to move HQ to Beachwood By Ken Prendergast / December 7, 2023 A newly independent corporation with 13,600 employees company-wide in more than 20 manufacturing facilities and offices is relocating its headquarters to Greater Cleveland — specifically, Beachwood. While a 26-year-old, three-story office building at 3300 Enterprise Parkway will be its new corporate headquarters, MasterBrand’s operations center will remain in Jasper, Indiana along with a production facility and training center. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2023/12/07/cabinet-maker-masterbrand-to-move-hq-to-beachwood/

We need a "wow" emoticon 😲 although I chose the "love" reaction!

Or, a "hmm, great idea! Now why didn't I think of that?!?" Or, "Since I didn't think of it, I'm going to devote every fiber of my being to make sure it never happens!"

Not that I'm aware of. How about a Poor Man's CUT? A young man named Karl Toth sketched this concept for me eight years ago.

Sharing my reply to a post on Facebook asking when the trains will start running ... Funding for the Service Development Plan will be made available in 2024, with the SDP including public involvement taking about a year. That will provide guidance on what route, market, service level and projects (extra tracks, stations, signal systems, locomotive/rail car availability) need to be undertaken to achieve the desired service level that the market and public sector will support. With additional planning funding in hand, those projects will then subjected to environmental screening and preliminary engineering over one to two years to determine and be eligible for needed federal construction funds. When construction funding is secured, final design, permitting and construction can begin. Final design and permitting may take another year. Construction can take one to five years followed by service start-up. The average time it takes for a transportation project in the USA to go from idea to ribbon cutting is 10 years. Since existing rights of way are to be used and little/if any property needs to be acquired, that can help shorten the timeframe to less than 10 years -- assuming all funding for each step is secured in the desired timeframe.

The map has been updated

The view from Meeshigen

Doubt that. Even Amtrak fights against public access. Here's the route.... https://www.railwayage.com/regulatory/stb-advances-12b-brightline-west-project/ Meanwhile, our neighbors are doing stuff... Senators Casey and Fetterman today announced PA will receive $144 million from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) to upgrade infrastructure along the Keystone West Corridor between Pittsburgh and Harrisburg to accommodate a second daily round trip Amtrak Pennsylvanian. The grant comes from the Federal Railroad Administration's (FRA) Federal-State Partnership for Intercity Passenger Rail Grant Program (FSP). The state also received a $500,000 Corridor ID grant to plan and develop how to expand both Pennsylvanian and Keystone services along the entire Pittsburgh to Philadelphia corridor. https://www.casey.senate.gov/news/releases/casey-fetterman-announce-144-million-to-expand-amtrak-service-between-pittsburgh-harrisburg-and-philadelphia

Cross-posted in the Cincinnati historic photos thread https://x.com/CarsRuinedCity/status/1732417239494860965?s=20 3rd and Central Streets, Cincinnati, Ohio. 25,000 people were displaced to build I-75 and the surrounding parking lots.

This will make you cry https://x.com/CarsRuinedCity/status/1732417239494860965?s=20 3rd and Central Streets, Cincinnati, Ohio. 25,000 people were displaced to build I-75 and the surrounding parking lots.

Possibly. If the plan is to invest less, it would be slower. If the plan is to invest more, it will be faster. Provide input to planning once it gets underway. Tell the planning team what's important to you.

Here's a cool map. Although if you look closely, you can see the blue lines are in lots more places than they first seem

@VintageLife Cle-Col is 136 rail miles. Planning in 2010 showed a trip time of 2:15 downtown to downtown. Less for trips to/from suburban stops. All of it productive time. Could be reduced with additional investment, such as upgrading the lightly used 58-mile segment from Galion-Columbus to 110 mph. Some additional info...

@Dougal Great idea. Let me encourage you to suggest it to Cleveland Airport officials (Policy/Corporate Affairs Manger Kevyn Shaw [email protected]) and GCRTA Property Manager James Reed [email protected]

Amtrak has also offered to fund the operating costs in the first few years as the market is developed. Very different from the last time when the state had to pay 100 percent.

1. Guess? Five years. 2. There is no realism when it comes to future. Just our will and whether we choose to use it.

It certainly doesn't hurt. But the planning budget would probably have to be increased to compare and contrast access to CUT vs the lakefront. Or consider CUT-Light... (I'll have to post graphics in the CUT thread when I get home).

Amtrak expansions to Cleveland win funding By Ken Prendergast / December 5, 2023 U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown announced today that the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) has selected four key routes in Ohio as priorities for Amtrak expansion and directed $500,000 to draw up construction-ready plans for each. Once those plans are finalized, then those routes would be eligible to apply for federal construction funding. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2023/12/05/amtrak-expansions-to-cleveland-win-funding/

Those routes are noted in the press release.

BREAKING: BROWN ANNOUNCES FIRST STEP IN EXPANDING AMTRAK IN OHIO The Federal Railroad Administration Chooses Four Ohio Routes as Priorities for Expansion; Brown Has Long Fought to Expand Amtrak Service in Ohio, Worked to Include Provisions in Infrastructure Bill to Make Expansion Possible https://www.brown.senate.gov/newsroom/press/release/sherrod-brown-announces-first-step-expanding-amtrak-ohio

Didn't know that was going on (I had to Google COP28 to see what that was!), but it explains why the city's sustainability director is there, too. But how does that explain Epstein's presence? The Clinic's? Or even Baiju Shah's? Unless they're trying to market Cleveland as a place for green economy jobs/investment and climate refugees?