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And they wonder how the stereotype keeps on keepin' on....

Shame can be a powerful source of motivation. (Thankfully, I'm too nice of a person to say "and you should know that, ColDayMan"). Shhhh. Besides, I just wanted to know what "between" meant.

You mean on West 9th

I was going to post that link in my initial e-mail and also saw it was no longer active. Wow.

By recognizing that Columbus should have at least as much rail transit as Cleveland has. And so should Cincinnati, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Buffalo, Indianapolis....

From the 12/11/06 Toledo Blade: PHOTO: Earth-moving equipment works in the park’s northern end. ( THE BLADE/DAVE ZAPOTOSKY ) MAP PHOTO: Metroparks representative John Jaeger points to the boundaries of the land that will become wetlands in Pearson Park. ( THE BLADE/DAVE ZAPOTOSKY ) Pearson Park steps into the future Development begins on wetlands area By TOM HENRY BLADE STAFF WRITER For now, it’s 306 acres of flat nothing. But the frozen land that bulldozers are pushing around for another week or two at Starr Avenue and Lallendorf Road in Oregon will begin to take shape next year as the northern half of Pearson Metropark. It’s a project John Jaeger, Toledo Area Metroparks natural resources director, said will take years, if not decades, to unfold. Mr. Jaeger is excited about the expansion for a number of reasons, not the least of which is that it’ll double the acreage of one of the region’s most popular parks. He said 58,000 trees will be planted — a victory of sorts, given all the ash trees taken down in Pearson because of the emerald ash borer. Countless other native plants, down to cattails and sedges, are expected to emerge from land that had been tiled and drained for years. The hope is that great blue herons and other large, majestic birds, will return, along with a diverse mix of small creatures, such as frogs, toads, salamanders, and other amphibians, Mr. Jaeger said. “We’re in it for the long term. This is probably 75 to 100 years down the road,” he said of the site’s potential. More at http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061211/NEWS17/61211003/-1/NEWS

Seems there's a huge number of them for all of downtown, different parts of downtown, individual properties and new developments located downtown. I thought it would be interesting to try and list them in this thread, and offer suggestions for existing sites, and for sites that maybe should exist. Amazingly, this web address is available: http://www.downtowncleveland.com/ Here's a start of a roster: http://www.clevelandcityliving.com/ http://www.east4thstreet.com/ http://www.historicgateway.org/ http://www.warehousedistrict.org/ http://www.clevelandflats.org/ http://www.towercitycenter.com/ http://www.theavenuedistrict.com/ http://www.thebingham.com/ http://www.cloakfactory.com/ http://www.stonebridgewaterfront.com/ http://euclidtransit.org/ http://www.csuohio.edu/campusmasterplan/areaguidelines-varsity.html http://www.galleriaaterieview.com/

If you haven't already, consider attending one of the Central Ohio Rail Breakfasts, led by 1KCO, or the Red Door meetings of All Aboard Ohio at the Red Door tavern in Grandview. Contact All Aboard Ohio's office at (614) 228-6005 for details.

There many factors involved. But the key problems are dramatically rising costs of highway maintenance and construction due to more expensive types of highway projects being sought today, sudden and recent increases in steel and fuel prices, and inflation-induced cost increases over the years. Further, federal gas taxes haven't been raised since the early 1990s, and traffic volumes/gas tax revenues aren't increasing as fast as they did in the 1960s-1980s, thus revenues aren't keeping up with the rising costs. An underlying, but very important issue is that there is a diminishing return on highway capacity enhancements. The initial construction of a highway creates the greatest return on investment (especially if there is no other parallel interstate highway nearby, such as what happened in the 1950s and 1960s). Traffic volumes were greatly increased and so were the gas tax revenues. The next stage of capacity expansion often resulted in paving a highway's median, such as what was done on I-77 in Cleveland from I-480 north to I-490. But there was a diminishing return on that. When I-77 was built, the right of way went from 0 to 4 lanes. When the median was filled in, I-77 went from 4 lanes to 6 -- a diminished return, but the only inexpensive way to add capacity (by paving the median). To add more lanes means going outside the right of way, and that's what had to be done at the north end of I-77. It typically means lots of property acquisitions, building demolitions, earthmoving, bridge work, retaining walls, etc. And these are usually happening in urban areas, where land is more expensive. So not only is the return on investment diminished even further from earlier capacity additions, but the cost tends to be far greater. The result is that the growth in traffic volume slows, as do gas tax revenues from it, compared to past years. Yet highway construction and maintenance costs are growing faster than in the past. And that's not even taking into account rising steel and fuel prices.

Until they get a rail line built, Columbus can stay jealous of us. And keep this stat in mind: Cleveland has the largest rail transit system (34 route miles) between Chicago/St. Louis and the East Coast cities. We are also the only one in the same region which has its airport served by rail transit.

I have the Corner Alley's hours in my notes at the office, and will appear in an article I wrote for Sun this week. But I'll give it a try from memory.... Opens daily at 11:30 a.m. Closes at 1 a.m. Monday through Wednesday, 2:30 a.m. Thursday through Saturday, and midnight on Sunday. We'll see if I'm right!

If I remember right, I thought you were too!

“The bottom line is that as the frequencies grow by addition the choices grow by multiplication—and so does the ridership.” A great quote!

Tremendous news! Expanded service and its success in Ohio can happen, too, but please support All Aboard Ohio in whatever way you can -- by joining, donating, writing letters to elected officials, newspapers, etc. See www.allaboardohio.org __________________ From www.elpc.com The numbers are in: new Amtrak trains in Illinois are succeeding! On October 30, 2006, Amtrak began running two additional trains each day to St. Louis and one additional train each day to Carbondale and to Quincy. Comparing November 2006 ridership data with November 2005 ridership data shows just how popular this new service is: Chicago - St. Louis (5 trains per day) ridership up 91% Chicago - Carbondale (3 trains per day) ridership up 61% Chicago - Quincy (2 trains per day) ridership up 35% Not only is ridership up dramatically on all three corridors, but the difference in growth between these corridors demonstrates the importance of trip choice in attracting riders. The more trains are offered, the higher the growth, since the more trains there are, the more likely that one will be departing and returning at times desired by the traveler. ###

Super photos. Have you ever thought of doing a Cleveland calendar, posters, etc.? Quality stuff.

That's one office building...

That's OK, I've never met a "normal" person in my life! I have met plenty of these people however (and I'm in there somewhere too)....... :strong: :sleep: :behind: :jo: :banger: :-P :? :ass: :weird: :finger: :bang2: :speech: :cool2: :evil: :mrgreen: :shoot: :whip: :drunk: :finger2:

Not 88%? :-D Thanks for the info guys.

Are you kidding? That's hilarious! Leave it to the NY Daily News to entertain as well as inform. I guess the Euros have a hard time tagging trains going by at 180 mph so they come here. Their culture may be 20 years behind the U.S.'s, but their transportation system is at least 20 years ahead of ours.

The Shaia family hasn't sold it yet, but is negotiating to sell it -- with conditions. Since negotiations are continuing, I've resisted writing an article about it, and I don't have all the details yet. But after a phone conversation today with someone who is very close to the situation, I can tell you that Lighthouse Landing is not dead. Furthermore, the placement of one, possibly two office buildings may be different than what's being discussed above. The one is likely to be inside the Waterfront Line's hairpin curve. The other one I'm not sure about, but it sounds like it would be closer to West 9th Street on land that Wolstein doesn't yet own. Now you know as much as I do about this, so you can see why I'm not ready to write anything about this yet.

See the thread at: http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php?topic=10517.0 Information gets more detailed as the thread goes on.

Got this at the office.... ____________________ For Immediate Release Contact: Mike Dovilla December 11, 2006 (216) 280-8720 Statement of Mike Dovilla on Dennis Kucinich’s Announcement of Presidential Candidacy CLEVELAND, OHIO – Mike Dovilla, the 2006 Republican nominee for Congress in Ohio’s 10th District, today issued the following statement on Dennis Kucinich’s announcement of candidacy for president of the United States: “It’s too bad that during this year’s Congressional campaign, Dennis Kucinich did not have the decency to be honest with the people of Ohio’s 10th District, repeatedly asserting he had ‘no plans’ to run for president. Only five weeks after Dennis won a sixth term to which he has not even been sworn in, Greater Clevelanders again must face the music. For two more years, we will have an absentee Congressman as Dennis runs around the nation to indulge his insatiable ego and advance his personal, extremist agenda in another futile run for the White House. “Unlike Dennis, I will continue to serve my hometown and its people by building a successful business, volunteering in the community, and staying engaged in the political process – all in Northeast Ohio. I am confident Cleveland’s brightest days are ahead.” For more information on Mike Dovilla, please visit www.mikedovilla.com. ###

It's official. Kucinich will announce he will run for president at noon tomorrow in the second-floor council committee room at City Hall.

I don't usually read/post in the political section cuz I don't care for politicians, but.... It looks like Dennis Kucinich will run for president again, and is scheduled to make his announcement either today or tomorrow at Cleveland City Hall. Last time he ran, his opponents criticized him for ignoring his district, but conceding that he probably couldn't run for president without getting re-elected to Congress. He, of course, was re-elected again last month. But does anyone find it odd that he has already announced his next run for president -- before he has even started his next term in Congress??

Actually, Wimwar got my reference. I hope that answers Sooner's question, too.