Mr Sparkle

Type of hopping has no impact on ABV (but it does affect IBU's)

The 50c per mile includes depreciation

Woman Sues Google for Bad Directions http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20100531/tc_pcworld/womansuesgoogleforbaddirections She was walking down the MIDDLE of the highway---THE MIDDLE!!!! ...Edit - she was struck crossing the road in the early dawn hours, it was dark and she assumed there was a sidewalk on the other side http://searchengineland.com/attorney-in-google-maps-lawsuit-43349 However, the lawyers expect Google to review their street view imagery for walks, every one of them -

I think the fact that its inside the beltway (I-275) is irrelevant. Ours is so big it doesn't really compare. I'm sure other areas have Indian Hill type places,founded in the 20's just outside the inner ring (Streetcar) subdivisions, and just inside the 1950's Auto Suburbs

Peds -- IMHO that is a safer ped x-ing than a normal 4 way intersection with turn lanes. Here, you look left to cross to the island, then right to cross from the island to the side. On a 4 way intersection you have to look left for thru traffic, and ahead for right turn on red traffic. Peds aren't allowed on Bypass 4 so its a moot point

I am sure there are Indian Hill type suburbs in almost every city

Milford Parkway was to connect to a relocated US 50 that was to run from the current SR450 i/c SW towards the US50 freeway at Red Bank Road, south of Mariemont and Terrace Park, and north of Newtown

The one @747 and Austin Pike will be a continuous flow intersection, where left turns are made in advance of the intersection: This is a graphic of a superstreet:

Inre EC: The project between I-71 and US 50 on Red Bank Road will create interchanges at Madison/Duck Creek and also Erie Avenue. If you dig into the environmental documentation for the Eastern Corridor Project, its states specifically that it will NOT be an Interstate (aka no I-74); it will be a form of a modified expressway. The extra R/W that John was referring to @ Madison was in fact the old road that ran due north, connecting to old Red Bank at Duck Creek. The Red Bank 4 lane road veers slightly east to make its way to I-71. The projects are moving ahead as attested by this linked TRAC document, and attached image excerpt http://www.dot.state.oh.us/trac/Documents/2010%20Draft%20TRAC%20List%20(March%2024,%202010)%20with%20Signature.pdf (Feel free to move this to the EC thread)

That is a common misconception about the west side, that it is isolated, it is very convenient to pill hill and downtown. I think the West Side suffers mostly from perception issues, that it is a backwater berg closer to Indiana than Cincinnati. Plop an Hyde Parker on Glenmore Ave and near Mercy and they would swear they were on Erie Ave, some grand old houses you mentioned. Not being the glitzy address that the East Side is keeps rents and house prices low, and the west sider's liked that. But, no one would argue that Price Hill's been shit upon, and that has a ripple affect proceeding west.

I believe the southern SR4/Bypass 4 has extra R/W for an interchange. You can see it in the field on the NW corner of the intersection. I believe the bypass was to continue to the south as a 4-lane road to I-275. The proposed signals will all be 2-phase signals which are highly efficient in moving traffic. It may seem counter-intuitive, but 3 2-phase signals of a 30 sec cycle length is more efficient than a traditional 8 phase signal (left turn phase for each approach), that signal cycle could be well over 240 seconds.

....maybe some originality has PC'd out...seriously could "Blazing Saddles" be made today?

...overuse of the work "like" in conversations. And no excuse to write in the same context you would use it in conversation.

@ Rob --- sorry, I should have read closer. Dan should have called you an Intolerant old person tho ;-)

But they could potentiality be damaged by kicking them over like dominoes. no? what if they had something of value in a carrier? If there is a continual issue with bike parkers, isn't the more prudent thing to do is educate or contact the park authority in charge of the recreation path?

^inre kicking the bikes over...isn't that criminal damaging? two wrongs don't make a right

Lets ban the phrase "Talking Points" on UO

It's Facebook!!!

FYI, current ODOT bids include price adjustments for fuel, steel and asphalt binders So the prices can go up (and down) post award. For example, steel price adjustment: http://www.dot.state.oh.us/Divisions/ConstructionMgt/Specification%20Files/PN525_04162010%20for%202010.pdf

ODOT Financial Statement (2008 latest available) http://www.dot.state.oh.us/Divisions/Finance/Annual%20Reports/2008%20Annual%20Statement.pdf ODOT gets 1.057 B of the 28c State Fuel Tax (p4) Almost nothing of vehicle registration fees ($1M) Truck fees and gas use tax ($100M) ODOT business plan FY 10-11 (required reading for all those that want to comment on transportation policy in Ohio) http://www.dot.state.oh.us/policy/2010-2011BusinessPlan/Documents/ODOT2010-2011BusinessPlan-WEB.pdf P37 lists revenue (on an aggregate basis) and expenditures.

Actually, it will be very close to my backyard

Lifted right out of the James Howard Kunstler playbook! Nasty! Of course those same Americans would rather not be talked down to by highbrow East Coast intellectual snobs either...

Signapore is a very repressive society

They can't say that on the outside of the envelope "Census Survey enclosed -- do not Pitch" ???

I was basically up all night tending to a pukey 15 month old....so why did I Google for this and watched this morning @ work ---when I thought the clock was ticking on when I was going to get the virus myself ---- I am a glutton for punishment A wafer thin mint