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Seen among today's building permit applications. Not too much detail yet so the imagination fills in the void.... Lou's House of Love 12203 Castlewood AVE, Cleveland

I guess they need to know that someone out there cares enough to speak up. After a while, some of these workers just need to know that what they do matters.

Didn't know where else to put this. Interesting history, separating fact from fiction. I'm actually surprised how close the movie American Gangster stayed to the truth. Love that movie, BTW! Frank Lucas, The Harlem Drug Lord Who Built a Heroin Empire https://www.historydefined.net/frank-lucas/

We go to Sokol Center in Slavic Village for my son's gymnastics every Friday night. He does gymnastics inside and outside. Inside he does flips on the parallel bars. Outside we dodge the gunfire.

Seeds & Sprouts XXIX – CSU to start arena plans, Downtown garage demo, Olde Cedar’s replacement By Ken Prendergast / June 21, 2023 Cleveland State University is about to start work on plans for a new arena, a downtown parking garage will be demolished -- for a parking lot, and one of the oldest public housing projects in the USA along with the old juvenile justice center will be demolished for a mixed-income housing complex. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2023/06/21/seeds-sprouts-xxix-csu-to-start-arena-plans-downtown-garage-demo-olde-cedars-replacement/

Seeds & Sprouts XXIX – CSU to start arena plans, Downtown garage demo, Olde Cedar’s replacement By Ken Prendergast / June 21, 2023 Cleveland State University is about to start work on plans for a new arena, a downtown parking garage will be demolished -- for a parking lot, and one of the oldest public housing projects in the USA along with the old juvenile justice center will be demolished for a mixed-income housing complex. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2023/06/21/seeds-sprouts-xxix-csu-to-start-arena-plans-downtown-garage-demo-olde-cedars-replacement/

Seeds & Sprouts XXIX – CSU to start arena plans, Downtown garage demo, Olde Cedar’s replacement By Ken Prendergast / June 21, 2023 Cleveland State University is about to start work on plans for a new arena, a downtown parking garage will be demolished -- for a parking lot, and one of the oldest public housing projects in the USA along with the old juvenile justice center will be demolished for a mixed-income housing complex. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2023/06/21/seeds-sprouts-xxix-csu-to-start-arena-plans-downtown-garage-demo-olde-cedars-replacement/

Yep, that's me complainin'

That second-to-last shot is terrific, @MayDay

Bibb appoints interim director By Ken Prendergast / June 20, 2023 Less than a week after Tessa Jackson left her post as Cleveland’s economic development director, Mayor Justin Bibb has found a replacement — at least temporarily. This morning, Bibb named Terri Hamilton Brown as the city’s interim director of economic development. She was sworn in and began work today following the departure of Tessa Jackson on June 15. The city expects to open the application process for the permanent position later this week. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2023/06/20/bibb-appoints-interim-director/

Could be. We have Acela and the Northeast Regionals overlaid on top of frequent commuter rail services, but too many people say that the Northeast Corridor is a different world with its 56 million people in 500 miles. And sure, it is. But if we have their rail service per capita as the Northeast Corridor, the Great Lakes' basin's 35 million people (with the core from Milwaukee to Montreal, or 1,000 miles) should have 25 trains a day in each direction. We're actually pretty close, with the Hiawathas, Wolverines, the Lake Shore/Capitol, Empire Service, and VIA's corridor services from Windsor to Montreal. Add a half-dozen more round trips in there with better connectivity with the Canadian services and we've got something. All the more reason why we need 5-6 additional trains each way on the Lake Shore Limited route.

Well said. Unfortunately when you have grown up in this monomodal, monolithic transportation situation, you don't recognize how bad it is.

Similar attacks by US liberals on density, biking. Same false arguments too.

My car has an interactive GPS which also displays on my dash screen the current speed limit of any road that I'm on. Very seldom does it not display. I'm sure it has more gaps than I've seen, but I'd have to stare at it to notice them. Given how seldom they are, a GPS-based governor would, over time, train drivers that their car is control. And I'll bet there's a tech solution to filling in the gaps.

The geotech drilling is for the academic building proposed below-right of the word "Euclid" in this rendering...

What's the point of a 75 mph universal governor on a 25 mph street? RTA trains have overspeed controls based on where they are on the track (curves, Tower City, end of track, even temporary work zones, etc). Shouldn't everyday people have similar geographically based speed limits on their cars given our relative lack of training and many changing real-world conditions along streets?

CSU is moving forward on multiple projects simultaneously.

America has become destructively self-centered, not to mention physically unhealthy. Our car-centric lifestyles and the government largesse that sustains its interia is to blame.

Why don't we have GPS-based governors on cars? As one of the commenters noted, we already have them on e-bikes.

I showed the strikethroughs (deletions) in parenthesis but the additions that were underlined didn't show up. So this is what that section now reads as: "The Ohio rail development commission shall prepare a plan for the construction and operation of an intercity conventional or high speed passenger transportation system in this state. The system shall be constructed and operated by the commission or its designees. The plan for construction and operation shall be based on existing studies, and shall state that the system will connect any points in Ohio and nearby states as determined by the commission." Previously, when we asked ORDC to consider low-hanging fruit like the extension of Amtrak service from a neighboring state like New York, Pennsylvania or Michigan, ORDC said they couldn't do it because their enabling legislation required that they pursued 3C first. Now they don't have that excuse anymore.

My wife has been trying to get a mural about world peace, to be painted by school children on the side of a bridge retaining wall next to our son's school. She got planning commission approval a year ago. Between the changes in school staff, paperwork with the school board (not CMSD), city building department, coordinating funders and the fiscal agent, and more, no painting has yet taken place. My Ukrainian wife has sometimes been brought to tears over this process, and said she could have gotten this done in Ukraine in a matter of weeks, even in war. So I guess my message and all this is, be patient. America just takes a long time to eventually get it done. After all, I've been trying to get a daytime train service in Ohio since I was 16 years old (1983)!

I asked Bibb's press secretary Marie Zickefoose if Tessa Jackson was fired and she said no. I heard she was pushing tougher hiring requirements on developers who accept city assistance on their projects and Bibb wasn't willing to go there, likely after getting pushback from developers.

Probably best to discuss this in one of the transit threads. But that Red Line extension study didn't lead to construction because GCRTA doesn't have the capacity to fund the non federal share of major transit projects. And they couldn't get UC-area stakeholders like the Clinic interested. Today, it might still generate sufficient ridership even with downtown employment down. UC employment is up. Combined with rerouting the Blue Line to Cleveland Clinic, it might be possible to get the Clinic's interest in supporting these projects and even get a financial commitment from them to pay for the share that RTA cannot afford. In interviews, Clinic officials told me they hate building new parking decks because the cost of building and maintaining them is so high. I asked them if they supported the Red Line extension to Euclid and they said no because the Red Line doesn't come close enough to serving their campus. With a connection to an extended Blue Line, the Clinic would have rail access from multiple directions.