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It looks like the RTA Police will be doing the enforcement of the bus only lane. This morning I watched as a RTA patrol car followed a group of cars down the right lane. After about six streets of no one turning right, on went his flashers. As I drove by I could see him motioning to the driver to pull up and turn right at the next street so he would not be blocking traffic.

Just an observation, look at how full those lots were. Obviously we had lots of jobs in downtown at this time.

Don't want road salt, get www.solarroadways.com! Sorry to get off topic.

Saturday service for the 55 returns on December 13th. Hourly starting at 6am until 8pm.

Can downtown Cleveland's residential growth bring more retail attention to center city? CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Apartments in downtown Cleveland are 95 percent full. The office market is lumbering along, helped by the recent spate of workplace-to-living-space revamps of older buildings. Retail downtown, though, is a brainteaser. http://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2014/11/can_downtown_clevelands_reside.html#incart_river

^Unfortunately, merging right puts them in a RIGHT TURN ONLY lane. No one is following the lane markers at W 117 where the two car lanes shift to the right. It's a mess every morning. I'm surprised I haven't seen more accidents. Once the construction is complete it will be a moot point.

^I was driving Eastbound on Clifton around 7:30am and watched a Lakewood Police cruiser follow several cars past several streets in the right lane. I'm guessing they won't start enforcing the bus lane, right turn only signage until after the section from W. 117 to the Shoreway is completed.

Behind the wall are the tennis courts. If the dome is going to be the same type as over the soccer field, then it will start just inside the fencing of the court area. The only question will be the location of the airlock doors and the mechanicals.

^It's a seasonal dome. In other words, it will only be up during the winter months, just like the dome over the soccer field.

I finally had a chance to stand in a new shelter on Clifton this morning. Some observations, white paint and bright lights attract plenty of bugs. Lots of mosquitoes hanging out waiting for a warm blooded body. There are still some finishing touches to be done. It looks like an emergency phone and the "next bus" display are waiting to be installed. I also think there will be a web camera inside the shelter based on the location of an unfinshed hole in the ceiling. I think RTA needs to take a ride down Clifton and make sure the bus stop signs are correctly located. I've been dropped off at a sign that no longer has a concrete pad (Edwards Westbound) and also dropped to the treelawn short of the new concrete pad (Cranford Westbound). Lastly, how were the locations of the new shelters determined? Granted this is just my little slice of Lakewood, but I don't understand why the stop at Edwards Eastbound was removed. Now the choices are Granger or Westlake, still not very far, but not at a traffic light. Additionally, the distance from Westlake to Summit is half the distance between Granger and Westlake. If the goal was to reduce the number of stops, why not leave the Edwards stop and not do Granger and Westlake. What's done is done, I'm just curious about the reasoning.

Your kidding? Is RTA really that sloppy? Well, someone is sloppy. I doubt that RTA staff apply the graphics or design the ads. Maybe the advertising company thinks that riders pay attention to the ceiling as the enter a bus so they gave instructions that were followed by the installer? Somebody should be getting a refund!!!

Just wondering, for those of you that ride RTA buses, have you ever looked at the advertising on the ceiling of the bus? I'm not referring to the angled ads directly above the seats. There is advertising directly above the aisle on the ceiling and on every bus I've ridden it seems to have been installed incorrectly. If you want to read the ad, you need to be facing from the front of the bus to the rear. It seems to me they should have installed the graphics so that as you ride and are facing the front of the bus, you can read the advertisement. Or maybe I'm missing something...

Cleveland State University is having a block party Friday, September 19th to kick off the 50th Anniversary year.http://www.csuohio.edu/50/blockparty.html

I'm pretty sure he was referencing the fact that people believed they had reached India when landing in North America. Thus calling the Native Americans "Indians" was geographically incorrect. He's not saying that there were no Native Americans/Indians in Cleveland. Well I feel really stupid. About an hour after I posted this missive, I'm reminded by my better half why Native Americans were referred to as Indians. I will now shut up and go back to my ignorant existence.

ColDayMan said, "I'm with the crowd. The name "Indians" isn't offensive (just geographically incorrect). Chief Wahoo is a racist caricature:" Why do you say it is geographically incorrect? Unless the history books have been re-written, Indian tribes were all across North America. I'm fine with keeping the name and I don't see a down side to retiring Chief Wahoo. They will eventually develop an iconic logo that sells the brand well and is not deemed offensive.

Yes ... unfortunately! .....and KJP! LMAO Me too!

The current funding on Indiegogo is $2,012,402. Double their goal!

Did you even watch the original video on this enterprise? It seems to me that they have put a lot of thought and testing into each aspect of the roadway. It also is apparent that they will be continuing to test and improve upon the design. By the time this goes on a well-traveled road, I'm sure it will be just as durable as asphalt or concrete. If it made "tons" more sense to put solar panels on roofs, then why isn't it happening right now? Why not use durable surfaces that are already connected with no extraneous maintenance challenges (height to access)? Using roofs where there is no consistency to shape and structural capability, not to mention the potential for architectural blunders, does not make sense to me. Roadways, sidewalks and parking lots are all pretty standard and when you can create standardization, you can drive down costs both in production and maintenance.

http://www.rinkworks.com/said/predictions.shtml "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Need I say more...

Without any real research, I would venture to say that the square footage of rooftops on publicly held buildings is significantly less than the square footage of public roadways. Plus, all those roadways are already connected, unlike the rooftops. I agree with ProkNo5, getting a small corporate business or town center as a test will give this technology a more rigorous trial. Look how long it took other technologies to become ubiquitous.

Wouldn't it be cheaper to just put panels above the roads? The panels wouldn't have to be as sturdy (but some kindof frame would be) and in bad weather they'd keep a lot of the rain/snow off the road. It might be cheaper, but it wouldn't do anything for reducing the carbon footprint that results from the traditional way of making a road. Also, any frame created would suffer the same fate as any other roadside post. One good accident and you would totally disable that stretch of road. Keeping the wiring underground and constructing the solar panels to be 'plug-n-play' would minimize an accidents impact. I just think this is a really cool idea that makes me wish I had an engineering degree. The number of jobs this could create is huge!

They had a goal of $1 million in funding by May 31st. They reached that goal today!

What does everyone think of this? http://www.solarroadways.com/intro.shtml

Another retail space is opening up. The University Lofts Bookstore at 2020 Euclid Ave. will be closed in late May or early June. This is the one run by Barnes & Noble College Stores. They also run the stores at CWRU and Tri-C.

^It's a Barnes & Noble College store. They also run the store at CWRU and the Tri-C campuses. Barnes & Noble has not been directly affiliated with CSU since 2006.