KJP
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You do realize this is the URBAN Ohio thread? 15 feet is spacious for a walkable, sociable community that wants to be fiscally prudent by having more valuable land per acre and less infrastructure to support per taxpayer. There are no negatives to this level of density except that it is not dense or mixed-use enough. -
Cool GIF. Restore what we've lost. Even before 1962, we had a lot more passenger rail service. In 1959, Trains magazine famously asked "Who Shot The Passenger Train?" And yet we'd love to have the service that existed in 1959.
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Not that I've seen. But I don't doubt that its construction costs have escalated. CPL budget documents show an increase in the capital budget, including the use of ARPA money, but I haven't seen how it will be used. I'll circle back to their COO next week.
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Why don't we move this conversation into the I Love Cleveland thread?
Winters aren't anywhere near as bad as they used to be. I missed a week of school in 1977 because of the cold, and that was during a streak of more than 30 days below freezing. There were also 20 days of below zero temps that winter. The next winter had the infamous Blizzard of 78. We had lots of near-record cold temps in the 1980s and the coldest day ever (-20) in 1994. We almost never go below zero anymore, and the snow no longer stays on the ground from Thanksgiving to March like it often did when I was a kid. But don't take my memories for it. I wrote about the shifting agricultural growing areas (called plant hardiness zones) in this article...... https://neo-trans.blog/2022/10/17/cleveland-benefits-from-national-migration-shift/ And who would have ever thought Cleveland’s weather would be a draw to residents? For all its faults, Cleveland’s weather never burned down thousands of acres, inundated coastal communities or threatened to dry up or salinate one of the most important things that all humans need to sustain their lives — fresh water. And Cleveland’s weather is moderating according to 30-year trends. Our winters aren’t as long, cold and snowy as they used to be. The reason is that Cleveland’s climate today is in a zone that was located across southern Ohio and Kentucky 30 years ago. That can be tracked by the northward shift of an agricultural climate zone called the Plant Hardiness Zone by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Northern Ohio was in USDA Zone 5 until a 2012 update. Now it is mostly in Zone 6 (for reference, Alaska is in Zone 1, the Tropics are in Zone 13). And the zones are moving northward at 13 miles per decade, according to a report published in 2018 by Yale University’s School of the Environment with average air temperatures in the Great Lakes region rising 3-5 degrees Fahrenheit by 2050 and 6-11 degrees Fahrenheit by 2100. Furthermore, the report notes that the arid Western plains of North America has historically met the continent’s wetter, eastern region near the 100th Meridian. This climatic boundary has shifted about 140 miles east since 1980, meaning the location of where cold, dry Canadian air collides with warm, moist Gulf of Mexico air has also moved. That has helped to push the most dangerous parts of “Tornado Alley” from an Indiana-Texas line southeastward into Dixie. And it means Ohio and especially Cleveland are less likely to see tornadoes than they did 30 years ago, and much less so when compared to the 1950s.
Library Lofts: on time despite appearances By Ken Prendergast / April 14, 2023 Last September, construction crews in Cleveland’s University Circle appeared to be close to topping off a cast-in-place concrete podium within which a new, two-story Martin Luther King Jr. Branch Library will be built and, on top of that a nine-story apartment building will rise. In the six and a half months since, one full story has been added to the podium. And, according to the project’s development team, you won’t see new stories added above it until mid-summer. By just about anyone’s book, that’s a long time getting through a story. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2023/04/14/library-lofts-on-time-despite-appearances/
Bingo! Article coming shortly.
We're going to have to wait a bit, though.
It is a typo unless they're changing the design again from the permit application that was submitted to the city (below). The building was reduced from 16 to 15 floors and the restaurant is on the 11th floor.
US wholesale inflation pressures eased sharply last month https://apnews.com/article/wholesale-inflation-prices-consumer-federal-reserve-producer-818e53575c3cbc2acfea0f1516f4425a
I should've invested in Hamilton, as I was at the cusp of doing in 2015...
Glad to see Frank Avenue extension finally happening.
Mike Panzica also confirmed this in a text message to me today, which I added to yesterday's article.
More Woodhill Homes gets funding boost By Ken Prendergast / April 13, 2023 To cover rising construction costs resulting from inflation and other pandemic-related disruptions, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has awarded $10 million to the Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority (CMHA) and the City of Cleveland for the Woodhill Homes Transformation Plan. The funding is from a Choice Neighborhoods Supplemental Funding Grant to further support the development of replacement housing in Cleveland’s Buckeye-Woodhill neighborhood. HUD awarded similar funds to 15 other current Choice Neighborhoods Implementation Grantees to address their pandemic-related disruptions as well. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2023/04/13/woodhill-homes-gets-funding-boost/
It's in the article. The article is updated for today, April 13. The second paragraph begins with "On April 13...."
Hope so. But these usually end up making things even more complicated/expensive. Remember the Paperwork Reduction Act?? FHWA Issues RFI to Improve Surface Transportation Project Environmental Review Process https://www.railwayage.com/regulatory/fhwa-issues-rfi-to-improve-surface-transportation-project-environmental-review-process/
Just updated this article with some SIGNIFICANT NEWS!!
Truck should never have pulled on to the crossing if it couldn't clear it. Sadly, this happens a lot along on this section of the Florida East Coast RR, which runs next to major roads (US1, Dixie Highway, etc) with intersecting streets crossing the FEC RR right next to those parallel roads. So people stop their vehicles (last year, another truck carrying luxury cars was wiped out) on the tracks as traffic backs up at the road intersections and are trapped by that traffic, so they can't pull forward or back up. There has been an educational campaign to get motorists to not pull forward onto tracks if they can't clear them in stopped traffic. It's helped, but the real solution is to grade-separate the busiest crossings and close the others. Each grade separation costs $10 million to $20 million and there are dozens of dangerous crossings.
RL Banks & Assoc did the station write-up for the 3C enviro report. This is what they had about Columbus.....
Look for a station on the red line (likely start-up routing for 3C). It avoids making back-up moves and significant additional capital costs. Maybe someday 3C might be routed to one of the yellow routings to avoid as much freight as possible and operate at up to 110-125 mph. But that would only happen if we're seeing 6-10 round trips per day and a lot more political support and resources available. Also, I've attached some images from the 2011 3C environmental document.
Sometimes. I live 10 houses from the tracks and on the fifth floor, so I have a clear view (and sound direction) of the trains. I noted three trains this morning. Another went through during breakfast. NS can run as many or as few trains as it wants on this line. There are is only one local shipper between Cleveland and Avon Lake -- Dependable floor products on Linda Avenue in Rocky River.
