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ColDayMan is tired of being the only one. Only the lonely. Hey, you wanted another song....

"Roar by the shore" was actually the tag line for the Cleveland Grand Prix at Burke Lakefront Airport. I prefer Frank Deford's description: "The Fury on Lake Erie" Let's see how many more of these we can come up with before ColDayMan coughs up a smurf.

Yes, Doc Hebens is the spot for the clinic office. I've still not seen a rendering of this building. For $1.8 million, I wouldn't expect much tho.

So did anyone get any pictures of this urban meccaphoria?

It would makes sense. Just as it would to have to raise money for one larger museum, rather more money for two separate museums. But I guess these guys never got that whole "economies of scale" part in their econ 101 classes back in the day.

Got it stuck in the pickel jar again?

Visit Gary, Ind. No wait, visit Cicero. No wait, visit Youngstown. Er, maybe Warren. Or Flint. Or East Cleveland. Or Detroit. I'm sure I'm forgetting a few more. So many urban masoleums. Greatest country on Earth.

But I like just the one song.

Damn!

Actually, I think I'm playing a record no one cared to listen to in the first place.

Groundbreaking for this long-sought (at least a decade) project will take place later this month. http://www.innovativefinance.org/news_innovations/02212003_rhode_island_s.asp Rhode Island's T.F. Green Airport Approved for TIFIA Loan by Federal Highway Adminstration, Innovative Finance Quarterly, Winter 2003 On November 8, 2002, a $58 million direct TIFIA loan was approved for the Rhode Island Economic Development Corporation’s (RIEDC) new $215 million intermodal facility at T.F. Green Airport in Warwick, RI. This is the first project to be selected for TIFIA credit assistance in FY 2003. The intermodal facility will be constructed as a public/private partnership among the Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT), the Rhode Island Airport Corporation (RIAC), which is a semi-autonomous subsidiary of RIEDC, and the nine rental car companies serving airport customers. RIEDC will serve as issuer for the project’s senior debt and as borrower for the subordinate TIFIA loan. More at link above:

From NARP... http://www.narprail.org/cms/index.php/hotline/more/hotline_457/ The long-anticipated groundbreaking for Providence’s T.F. Green Airport Intermodal Rail Station will be July 17 at 1:00 p.m. The project will include a parking garage, moving sidewalk to connect to the airport terminal, and additional track work to streamline passenger and freight operations. A key hurdle was overcome earlier this year when agreements were signed with six rental car companies to move their operations to the garage.

I thought it was a wonderful work of fiction. How does owning a car cost less than buying bus or train tickets? How could they possibly say with a straight face that highways were not responsible for urban sprawl, when the range of travel with a fixed period of time (such as from home to work in 30 minutes) suddenly was expanded greatly by traveling at up to 60 mph on a highway vs. maybe 20 on city streets? And they suggest that it was big-city mayors who pushed through a provision at the last-minute in the 1956 legislation to have highways come into the cities? This is an outright lie and an attempt to rewrite of history. It was the highway lobby that quietly pushed through the provision unbeknownst to many big-city mayors and even to President Eisenhower himself. If the Thoreau Institute were writing this about a person instead of an object, I would say that this person either owed Thoreau money, the person had dirty pictures of Thoreau, or Thoreau simply is obsessively enamored with this person to the point of psychosis.

I posted those links so that folks would see this is not an emotional issue, but one based on hard data. Everyone wants to see traffic reduced, and reducing roadway capacity has been proven to be an effective way to do that (combined with smarter land use, and providing alternatives to driving).

Then it's just a matter of beauty in the eye of the beholder? I think those huge steel mills are some of the most awe-inspiring creations of man. It causes me great pain to see them fade away from the Cuyahoga Valley, and almost completely disappear in the Mahoning Valley. I guess we as a nation could always keep building an economy on delivering pizzas to each other, rather than show our engineering, manufacturing, marketing and systems integration prowess as we had before. Those mills were such striking signs of our nation's economic power that Hitler and Tojo wanted them destroyed militarily. Their more peaceful successors instead used economics to destroy them, just as we were complicit in making ourselves vulnerable to this new world war, er, order. Instead, we'll use those mill sites to sell goods made in other nations -- the things we used to make in this nation. Then, after work making minimum wage, we can ride our bicycles down the Towpath Trail to a nice secluded spot where our grandfathers once labored, and fought with his union brothers for decent pay so he could join the ranks of the middle class. Now there are fewer of us in the middle class, and more in poverty. But we can all feel better after hugging a tree in the Cuyahoga Valley...

That has to be one of the worst pieces of shit I've ever read by those idiots. Sometimes I wonder why the hell I still live in this selfish, suicidal nation.

When all costs are tallied (legal, property, wetlands mitigation etc) the total cost is actually closer to $30 million.

If you remove a highway, I think you will find that there will be less traffic. Look at what happened in traffic-clogged San Francisco after the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake claimed the Embarcadero Freeway (I-880). It was never rebuilt, despite protests that its traffic would overwhelm area streets. That never happened because people changed their travel habits by walking, taking transit, telecommuting or simply traveling less. The Bay Area has since been undertaking a major transit enhancement plan, reducing the supply of free parking, promoting more pedestrian and biking facilities and not building any more highways. There have also been case studies of induced demand for more driving resulting from the construction of highways and, conversely, of reducing driving by reducing highway capacity. Do a search at the Victoria Transport Policy Institute (www.vtpi.org), the Surface Transportation Policy Project (www.transact.org), Center for Neighborhood Technology (www.cnt.org), Smart Growth America (www.smartgrowthamerica.com) and many others for articles, research and other stuff on this issue. I know it's scary sometimes kicking or controlling an addiction, but the fear is the worst thing we have to endure.

Atlanta is going to be a "Peak Oil Ghetto" in the not-to-distant future if they don't do a 180-degree turn soon in their land use and transportation planning. Indeed, it may already be too late for them.

Mark your calendars.... http://www.cityclub.org/content/speakers/SpeakerDetail.aspx?spkID=5361 The City Club of Cleveland Wednesday, July 19, 2006 12:00 PM ReDeveloping Cleveland: Revitalizing Housing - Bottom-Line Building John J. Carney, Paul Volpe, and Nathan Zaremba ReDeveloping Cleveland: Revitalizing Housing is a four-part series that focuses on the challenges and solutions to revitalizing housing in Cleveland. Its programs discuss the city’s overall housing strategy, Cleveland’s market-based housing, affordable housing, and how revitalizing housing in Cleveland might improve other sectors of economic and community development. Bottom-Line Building will attempt to answer the following questions: What have some of our leading builders, architects and developers learned in pursuing their urban projects? What design elements appeal to potential Cleveland buyers? How are successful deals put together? Are tax abatements necessary? What is the prognosis for the future of market-based housing in Cleveland? Panelists are: John J. Carney, managing partner, Carney & Carney; Paul Volpe, president, City Architecture; and Nathan Zaremba, president & CEO, Zaremba Construction. Keith Brown, president of Progressive Urban Real Estate, will serve as moderator. Other Programs include Cleveland's Housing Strategy (June 28), Affordable Housing (August 9), and Thinking outside the House (August 30). Special Program: $15 Member $25 Non Member $280 Corporate Table of 8 $200 Non Profit Table of 8 Reservations Toll-Free at 888-223-6786 or locally at 216-621-0082

Cool pics. I see Stonebridge Phase V is going to have hardwood floors. And, in my humble, totally unbiased opinion, :-D I believe all of Clifton through Lakewood is very beautiful.

Whose waterway would you put steelmaking next to?

Yes, they're called price supports. And sometimes farmers are paid to not grow crops. The whole system is goofy.

I noticed their stale website too when I visited it about a week ago. They may offer an excuse, but it shouldn't wash with anyone. Does that mean they were looking for jobs here? If so, why is that not good?

Bowling Green armory brings single bid of $150,000 Toledo Blade, 7/7/06 About 20 people showed up yesterday morning to see what might become of the old Ohio National Guard armory, but just one bidder came forward to try to buy the downtown landmark. The Hanneman family, which owns the Deck-Hanneman Funeral Home next door to the vacant armory, offered $150,000 for the East Wooster Street property. State officials said they should know by the middle of next week whether the bid was acceptable to the Ohio adjutant general. The property had been appraised at $280,000, then offered for sale at that price to the city and to Wood County, neither of whom was interested. Mayor John Quinn, who attended the auction, said the lack of parking space and the enormous cost of renovation were among the reasons City Council did not want to purchase the building.