August 4, 200618 yr Ugh, I hate all. those. highways. Other than that Cleveland always looks fantastic from those aerial shots!
August 4, 200618 yr Ugh, I hate all. those. highways. Other than that Cleveland always looks fantastic from those aerial shots! All the stuff on the very botton left to middle is railroad tracks... Cleveland has less highway near downtown then Cincy and Columbus I know that. There is always traffic build ups when there is more then one ballgame in town, etc... This is my favorite view though!
August 4, 200618 yr Ugh, I hate all. those. highways. Other than that Cleveland always looks fantastic from those aerial shots! All the stuff on the very botton left to middle is railroad tracks... Cleveland has less highway near downtown then Cincy and Columbus I know that. There is always traffic build ups when there is more then one ballgame in town, etc... This is my favorite view though! Sexy. I still wish they'd just blow that stuff up and expand with some housing, office buildings or even a giant park. The highway/railroad mass is just not attractive.
August 4, 200618 yr Ugh, I hate all. those. highways. Other than that Cleveland always looks fantastic from those aerial shots! All the stuff on the very botton left to middle is railroad tracks... Cleveland has less highway near downtown then Cincy and Columbus I know that. There is always traffic build ups when there is more then one ballgame in town, etc... This is my favorite view though! Actually, Cleveland probably has more highways than Cincinnati (with the Shoreway, I-90/71, I-77, and I-490). "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
August 4, 200618 yr Ugh, I hate all. those. highways. Other than that Cleveland always looks fantastic from those aerial shots! All the stuff on the very botton left to middle is railroad tracks... Cleveland has less highway near downtown then Cincy and Columbus I know that. There is always traffic build ups when there is more then one ballgame in town, etc... This is my favorite view though! Actually, Cleveland probably has more highways than Cincinnati (with the Shoreway, I-90/71, I-77, and I-490). Cincinnati's certainly look pretty awful, though - and with expanded 2nd street and 3rd street to either side of Fort Washington Way, it makes that entire swath look awful from above. Although when you're on the surface level, they've done a really good job of connecting the CBD to the riverfront - the sidewalks are very large on both sides, FWW is recessed below, many, many crossings, etc...you don't feel nearly as cut off as you do from the Charles River in Boston or something. And once they cap the highway - woo hoo!
August 4, 200618 yr See the Innerbelt thread for some of my maps on how to relocate the Spaghetti Junction of I-90/I-77/Ontario/East 9th and to cover the combined Rapid Transit lines through the former Norfolk Southern intermodal yard. It sickens me every time I see that massive piece of landscape next to downtown not devoted to the kinds of uses that make downtowns truly wonderful places. "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
August 4, 200618 yr the spaghetti junction south of downtown cleveland and those east and west of downtown cinci are a real c*ckblock. whatcha gonna do tho? ugh.
August 4, 200618 yr See the Innerbelt thread for some of my maps on how to relocate the Spaghetti Junction of I-90/I-77/Ontario/East 9th and to cover the combined Rapid Transit lines through the former Norfolk Southern intermodal yard. http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php?topic=3697 (thread) (key items) http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php?topic=3697.msg67216#msg67216 http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php?topic=3697.msg98704#msg98704 Below in red are the areas in the photo in question -- highways and ramps -- and this shot did not even catch a good portion of the the ramps to the northeast. This is a swath of land the size pretty much the size of the WHD that IMO should be just as real an opportunity for large scale development as Stark's Pest.
August 4, 200618 yr It continues to shock me how picturesque and how underutilized the banks of the river remain. I know CMHA is working on their innovative riverfront park plan, but after 210 years, a riverfront park is still innovative? Are we nuts? We should be swamped with riverfront parks, peppered with mixed use developments! And how about a nice houseboat-based development? http://www.houseboatmagazine.com/?pageID=3. Sorry, I get a little caught up.
August 4, 200618 yr Here's the image I pushed most recently. I still think it's workable and not too late to pursue (especially with the federal Highway Trust Fund account balance about to circle the drain)... "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
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