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Here's the same thing without turning the elevation into a blue blob. Sometimes blobs scare people.

I am rarely wrong.

Can someone link any kind of concept plan for this one and also the I-71 MLK interchange proposal? I've googled but can't find much.

This should be about right:

^ I'm talking about the Eastern Corridor project in Cincinnati. Sorry, I should have added that in there.

^ Wow, complete opposite of my parents. I was the first in my biological family to go to college. My parents grew up priveleged on the east side of Cincinnati and have completely mismanaged their money. They saved no money for their childrens' education, they are constantly in debt, have no retirement, and spent my brothers' college funds that my grandfather set aside for them on their own bills. When it was time for me to co-op in the DAAP program, I did them all in Chicago with not even a dime from my parents. At one point I had to go to a check-and-go in the middle of the co-op term because I was so broke. This is in contrast to most of my DAAP friends whose parents gave them a couple grand when they co-oped out of town "just to be safe." Now, one of my brothers has dropped out of school and the other one is struggling to pay his rent and is looking for a job even though he has a full load as an anthropology major at UC. Moral of the story: Life comes at you fast. Plan ahead.

Interesting. They want to use Bombardier DMU's in the Eastern Corridor as well. They were part of my thesis at UC. I wasn't aware they could go much faster than approaching 100MPH, and that their fuel efficiency starts to drop after that? Can you confirm/deny? They are pretty sweet looking though. Definitely workable for the first couple service levels of this route.

The only thing separating Mt Adams from the streetcar is I-71. People could just walk right down to it. It's only 5 blocks. And a million stairs. Telegraph Hill in San Fran is topographically cut off from the Embarcadero, but it's easy to get to because there's nothing in your way but a pretty green hill, that has stairs. http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=37.802153,-122.403563&spn=0,359.996516&t=h&z=19&lci=transit&layer=c&cbll=37.80217,-122.402975&panoid=w1WGRub37CUQFHqn774zvw&cbp=12,261.61,,0,-5.05

Orlando is close, but i don't think they have passed Cincinnati yet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_of_United_States_Metropolitan_Statistical_Areas I was using CSA, not MSA. http://www.census.gov/popest/metro/tables/2008/CBSA-EST2008-02.xls Either way, I wouldn't be surprised if Orlando starts leveling off. Florida is a mess.

All the more reason why it must be audited. Well, yeah. I hope that's obvious to people. LOL

This is a curious thing, because the influential factors on this are all over the map. When the economy tanks, oil tanks, so mobility for Americans actually goes up a little. For a while. Nobody has any idea what a prolonged repression (recession + depression lol) will do to living patterns.

Paul has been itching to crack op the fed for years, decades even. It will be interesting to see how this all plays out. It's fascinating that most people do not know that the federal reserve is not a government organization.

Don't worry, Cincinnati is far from alone. Orlando's highways are almost perpetually at a standstill, especially I-4. They just passed Cincinnati in metro population and are sitting on Dayton-sized infrastructure. And no way to pay for more, especially now. The central nexus of Orlando highways has an interchange lane that is one lane wide. This backs up traffic for 6 miles in both directions. Atlanta is a mess. Always. Even with rail. MARTA in Atlanta is like trying to save a man with a triple bypass when every artery in his body just exploded. Chicago? Hahaha. YOU drive on the Kennedy any time before 2 in the morning. And they have more rail than anyone but New York. If it's not breaking down or plunging off the tracks. It's not just Cincinnati that is a mess. America is a mess. We need three things to happen at once: Denser, better planned communities; rail infrastructure; the money to pay for it all.

Sorry. Cylons are cooler.

I believe that at least 3 of the people in this photo were drunk in my apartment in Lincoln Park once.

Can we fast-forward through winter please? I want all of this to be open AND warm outside. Why are they closing the suspension bridge? I hadn't heard that.

^Dude, that affirmation just changed my whole world.

^Americans, with the freedom to speak freely. And the freedom to sucker.

^Nice! I've always thought I could see Carew when southbound on 75 just before it dips down towards the 275 interchange. But I'm probably just seeing UC Medical or something.

I would also vote against having such a rating option. It has been shown on a lot of different forums that people start using it as a barometer of how often they agree with a poster's sentiment, rather than the quality of the information.

A proposed residential stack on top of a garage that was built in 2002. http://cincinnati.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/stories/2009/10/26/story5.html

^ What is the speed threshold at which they need to rebuild the track? Any? Also would these be high-speed diesel, or electrified lines?

^ Don't worry, I am not as dumb as I look! I have been to Europe several times, and ridden both the ICE and TGV extensively, although not in the last 10 years. It is wonderful. Part of my post was to goad you into a defense, since you are so knowledgeable on the subject. Still, one has to remember that Europe is not small and the large nations are much larger than our states. Every supporting metric is larger. The Ohio Hub build-out is an incredibly dense allocation of capital infrastructure under my map, your map, anyone's map. I'm not even going to go into how the cities themselves aren't set up to maximize rail travel demand. It can always change over time. Also, 60-100 MPH is not, in my opinion nor apparently the opinion of whoever made the Wikipedia map, "high speed." It doesn't compete with auto travel. Moral of my rant, I suppose: This isn't a "bold new adventure." This is a retrofit. In my perhaps undereducated opinion, they should focus on making the 3C segment as fast as possible, in the shortest time horizon as possible.

I've been watching how the political wave has grown around High Speed rail, with smaller and smaller cities now wanting a piece of the action. Since everyone references Europe on this issue, I whipped up a map that imposes the USA over Europe's high-speed network. (Network image from Wikipedia) As you can see, even Europe's system is not very complete, even on the regional level. Now take a look at the Ohio Hub build-out: There is nowhere in Europe that has that kind of high-speed rail density. I'm all in favor of the 3C line, BUT, if Europe is any precedent at all, I'm not sure if we can afford to link every metro in Ohio with 200 MPH trains. Some cities are going to have to have a reality check.

3CDC is not a public entity. Let's all agree to concede facts, especially when they are well-supported. Threads that go on because people just want to get the last word just tease everyone else.