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That's for the first of these.... https://neo-trans.blog/2024/02/05/flats-luxury-finally-coming-home/

Browns got any heart left? Or are they just gonna take this abuse?

What is happening here and why?

Which letters? P-P-G? 🤪

I was in Cancun in 2022 and should've checked it out! But I didn't even know about it. I still don't like that it doesn't serve city centers, but the Mexican military is building extensions like crazy and maybe they'll provide through-city routes at some point.

Daryl is probably correct

I was going to wait until morning to hit the "publish" button, but since cle-dot-com posted it now, so will I.... Three sites ID’d for Downtown public toilets By Ken Prendergast / October 16, 2024 Public bathrooms are exactly what many civic and business people say Downtown Cleveland needs. But where they should be located has been a difficult question to answer. It’s one of the reasons why it has taken three years to advance three proposed locations for four of these public potties for consideration to the City Planning Commission’s Design Review Committee this Friday. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2024/10/16/three-sites-idd-for-downtown-public-toilets/

Councilwoman Spencer reports that CPD arrested three boys, ages 14, 16 and 17 for breaking into 14 cars in Detroit-Shoreway. There also have been a slew of car break-ins in Tremont, but it isn't known yet if these losers were the culprits.

Some of my favorite photos of downtown and the port activity were taken from the #55 bus crossing the Main Avenue Bridge.

That would require them (council and precinct committee members) to admit their own failure and to relinquish what little power they have left. They seem to feel that if they still live in a nice house and hold power over the ashes that surround them, that's better than nothing.

According to my wife who works for USCRI, 54 Ukrainians as "refugees" is probably a good figure since the refugee process would have had to have started before the full ruzzian invasion in Feb. 2022. The parole process is different and represents many, many more people. USCRI Cleveland alone has handled 500+ just in the past year, my wife says. And other organizations in Cleveland have handled hundreds more Ukrainian cases, probably in excess of 1,000 this year.

Plus the East 18th extension.

I can't believe I'm actually addressing this "tech" but the propulsion is just one of many questions. How does it handle turnouts? Diamonds? Activate flashers/gates at grade crossings? Handle lateral wind forces from opposing trains or in tunnels/close quarters? ADA level boarding/platform gaps? Sabotage? How will its speed be any greater through curves than conventional trains?

Yes, that's correct. Now, during rush hours, there may actually be something called a traffic slow-down downtown but in a much more orderly manner via two intersections. The alternative was a high-speed dodge-em amid the ramps of West 3rd-East 9th after you just prayed that nobody would be there to try a short-merge into your car before they impaled themselves into a jersey barrier at 50 mph.

Indeed. People my age and older should be dancing in the streets because they've just witnessed Cleveland do something that other progressive cities have done before and we wished we were them for much of our lives. Maybe we don't know how to handle it. It's like the Cavs winning the championship and crying out of self-pity because we were denied similar joys for the prior 52 years. But because of the prior 52 years, you should be enjoying that championship all that much more. The 52 years is over. And here, the prior decades of not being able to seal a deal on the lakefront are over, too. Dance, fools!

We all hold up Toronto as the epitome -- but every time a mayoral administration puts together a new transit plan, the next administration scraps it for their own, and then the next one redoes it. Transit projects that were first proposed decades ago are finally moving forward but in watered-down hybrid versions of their former incarnations. Point is, silly stuff happens everywhere, including in the cities we hold up as models. The past is done. A huge victory was achieved today. Let's look ahead.

Just because this is a lakefront project doesn't mean this is part of an already decades long process. What we had seen in the past was a series of ideas that seldom gained any serious traction. The 1980s-90s development of North Coast Harbor is one that actually did something. This one Has the potential to do more because it's off to a strong start. And Senator Brown said the multi modal hub was funded but I think that's only partially correct. It seems a piece of the hub was funded. The rest may be electioneering.

Major infrastructure projects much like mega real estate projects seldom get all of their funding from one pot. Instead, they are multi layered and get built-in phases over time. Unlike mega real estate projects, many times not everything gets built in a big infrastructure vision like this. So you go after the parts that must get built first. And that's what the city is doing here. You cannot build the land bridge because the Shoreway is in the way. You cannot easily build the multimodal hub because the landbridge doesn't exist. Ditto for much of the waterfront enhancements. So they're building what they can and must build before they do anything else. Admittedly there is a lot to unpack here but it's fascinating to do.

I had never heard that before either.

I also added this to the end of the article....

If you read the article 10 minutes ago, read it again. Lots more has been added!

Cleveland gets $60M to redo Shoreway as boulevard By Ken Prendergast / October 16, 2024 Although it’s not the full $260 million federal grant that city of Cleveland officials had hoped to get for its lakefront vision, the $59.7 million it won today from U.S. Department of Transportation will knock down the first lakefront domino. Once knocked down, other aspects in the city’s plans can be funded and built. MORE: https://neo-trans.blog/2024/10/16/cleveland-gets-60m-to-redo-shoreway-as-boulevard/

Boom!

Huh, I seemed to recall quoting and naming Council President Griffin...

Nope. See my article above.