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Georgia master developer picks Alabama general contractor? Hmmm. Let's just push Cincinnati into Kentucky and then nobody's feelings will get hurt! :-D

Because Race and Walnut both run South Oops. I meant Vine/Walnut. I posted that before I had coffee. :drunk: I do understand there are good reasons why, I just don't remember them and couldn't find them in a search of the thread. Only the Main and Walnut street bridges over Ft. Washington Way have a sacrificial concrete slab that can be removed and new track can be added without rebuilding the entire bridge. Thanks very much!

Because Race and Walnut both run South Oops. I meant Vine/Walnut. I posted that before I had coffee. :drunk: I do understand there are good reasons why, I just don't remember them and couldn't find them in a search of the thread.

Can someone give me a quick recap of why the alignment is Main/Walnut and not Race/Walnut?

^ That's pretty cool. UDA is a pretty big deal. My old company in Florida is an excellent firm, and we took UDA washouts. Yes. They wash people out after a trial period.

There is an interesting argument in urban planning these days that says local tax policy could discourage sprawl by taxing land and not improvements, which is the reverse of what we do today. So under that scenario, the nuisance property owners would be very much compelled by the tax structure to have something profitable on their property, rather than let it sit vacant or blighted. This kind of tax policy might have the added effect of discouraging far-flung suburban locales from chasing development for income. It is being proven that this kind of habit just propels a wavefront of new development out of town.

Environmental consciousness is absolutely the last reason suburban Americans would move into denser areas. I am a pessimist but I tend to believe that humans are psychologically incapable of reigning in our own activity. We grow. We replicate. We find new ways of increasing our convenience and decreasing our own energy expenditure. It's just in our blueprint. We will burn oil until we can burn hydrogen just as easily. Good news: There are a hundred other reasons why people move into denser communities, some of them compatible with saving the environment, some of them totally unrelated: Cultural vibrancy, shorter commute, to be part of a particular community, aging, etc...

Add to this the fact that each additional lane of highway beyond the first two adds a geometrically decreasing amount of capacity. I.E., 3 2-lane parallel surface streets carry more than a 6-lane surface street. As for Ybor...yeah, go ride it. It's a tourist gimmick. It's a wonderful way to get from the Marriott Channelside to Ybor while you're wasted. Not that I'd know anything about that. I have faith that Cincinnati's will be more viable becuase it will connect two very large employment centers.

Yes, nothing is built yet, but that's reason to speed up not slow down. Cincinnati has had a bad habit of striking while the iron is cold, and that needs to stop. Cincinnati strikes? I thought we just raised the hammer repeatedly...

This thread would not be complete without thanking Dylan Leblanc and Skyscraperpage.com, where a lot of us met and found our first active urban discussion board. Kudos to you guys who have worked so hard to keep this site up.

To be fair, lots of high-speed networks were preceded by lower speeds because the technology wasn't there yet.

I have also heard that as well. If you look at the original 2002 light rail plan, the first line that would have been constructed was a streetcar running from Uptown to Downtown, with light rail being built after the streetcar line was completed. Eh? I thought the first piece was the minimum operable segment from downtown to blue ash?

This is correct. It will be a spur that connects to their existing LRT system, although that too is being expanded. This was the very last project I worked on the day I got laid off. LOL!

In my opinion, the trick will be for these cities in Ohio to embrace the casinos as civic assets. Basically, we should demand Monaco, NOT Orlando. VS

I am impressed Cincinnati.

I wish I knew how Issue 9 was going to turn out. I am very, very close to saying that it doesn't have a chance in hell of failing. And I've been reserving my pessimism (or realism) through the entire process, but it's election day so it's time to get real. But it's sooo convoluted. Here's to hoping the hair-trigger "No" voters just vote that way, and in the process give Cincinnati some transit!

I think they are probably right in saying that's the hottest development zone in Cincinnati. Does anyone have any updated site plan information? All I've ever found is from Hixson and it...needs some work. http://www.hixson-inc.com/retail/MixedUse/rookwood.html

This has so many parallels to Ohio Issue 2. (The agriculture ammendment.) A no wrapped in a yes. Purposefully attempting to complicate the system as a strategy for your agenda. A well-meaning progressive idea that was hijacked by manipulative conservative interest groups. Sad.

These morons could have use the cross walk. Especially the woman in teh second picture. Why stand in the turning lane of a busy street on a damn cell phone? A mid-block crossing with no accessible crosswalk nearby is not considered jaywalking. But the girl in the second pic is DEFINITELY breaking the law. So is the dude in the third pic. But then if I lived in Detroit I don't think pedestrian laws would be the first thing on my mind...

It's looking amazing! This kind of thing really helps one visualize a bustling Vine, with places like this going for blocks.

Nice pictures Dirty. I wish the front had more articulation, like the side. It's looking rather flat. The curtain wall is nice enough, but would really look cool with some more ins-and-outs.

Where do you live these days Ronnie? I'm in Cincinnati visiting, and I've just been modifying my routes so I can drive by the site instead of looking for pictures...It's quite novel since I'm usually 980 miles away.

Haven't people been busting their asses around here lately to METICULOUSLY remove content that isn't ours? Looks like the newspaper is doing the same thing. NOT.

Nasty. I love it.

That is interesting. There are completely different architectural depictions of what one could call corporate/economic power, and political/government power. That got me thinking, what is the tallest government owned building in the country? According to http://www.ctbuh.org/Portals/0/Tallest/CTBUH_TallestClockGovernmentPalace.pdf, The Philadelphia City Hall building is the Tallest government-owned building. Although.... that site doesn't specify if it includes building owned by the gov and used by private parties. I know offhand the Rhodes state office tower in Columbus is taller than Philadelphia City Hall.