omeara4pheonix

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[–] omeara4pheonix 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

God I hope they can stay in Northside, they are my favorite place to walk to

[–] omeara4pheonix 2 points 7 months ago

That's how flights to Chicago normally end up working.

[–] omeara4pheonix 1 points 8 months ago

Boo this man! Coke doesn't offer anything better than their Pepsi counterparts, except for coke zero. I'd rather them switch to RC.

[–] omeara4pheonix 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

This doesn't go far enough. More of these smaller streets need to be converted to pedestrian/bus only roads. Leave the major routes to the cars, funnel them straight to high capacity garages.

[–] omeara4pheonix 1 points 9 months ago

Personally, I think the BRT was the right move (even if they kneecapped it's usefulness as a commuter line by not extending the reading line up to GE). A quick and cheap way to make our transit exponentially faster and serve people better. I'm hopeful it can get through the bus stigma, and if it proves popular those routes will be prime candidates for light rail conversion. Expansion of the streetcar though? It still just feels like a novelty unless it actually goes somewhere. Make it connect park and ride stations to destinations across the city. Give it it's own right of way or at the very least absolute signal priority (except for emergency services). Elevate it, or run it subgrade where necessary to keep its speed up. Having ridden the current iteration a ton, it seems like the ride from camp washington to the banks would take around 45 minutes, which is not even competitive with the bus.

[–] omeara4pheonix 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Most of the routes seem ridiculous to me. Uptown is the obvious choice for ridership due to UC. The NKY routes would have high ridership, but the actual path they have laid out makes no sense. All the other ones are a play for neighborhood improvement not ridership. Though the camp washington one could get a ton of ridership if it was extended to the Northside Transit center, this would tap into a huge park and ride resource, and the highest traffic bus stop in the city.

It seems like every other Transit plan in the city, it's built around a few peoples preferences rather than looking at our transit system wholisticly.

[–] omeara4pheonix 0 points 9 months ago

The only people that want apple to open up iMessage are apple fanbois that are too cheap to buy an iPhone. Everyone else just wants apple to support rcs. It's a better standard anyway.

[–] omeara4pheonix 3 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Humble monk has DND at 1 every Sunday. I believe it is dropin friendly.

[–] omeara4pheonix 2 points 10 months ago

4th and central more or less

[–] omeara4pheonix -1 points 10 months ago

Another so called "economics think-tank" that thinks [consumer price]-[raw material cost]=[profit]. They are just ingnoring all of the other variables in equation. P&G (their biggest example) laid off a huge percentage of their workforce during the pandemic and increased the price of the products. Now they are nearly back at 100% of their workforce but everyone is being paid more. It ends up being a wash for consumers at that point. That's not even including cost of energy, cost of machine maintenance, and all of the other little things that have increased over the last few years. Nonsense.

[–] omeara4pheonix 2 points 10 months ago

Why are we making two sports districts? It's already bad enough that the FC stadium isn't on the river.

[–] omeara4pheonix 2 points 10 months ago

To add to what curve already recommended: Sleepy bee for breakfast, and street food galore at the Findlay market. The streetcar is free so she can ride it as much as she pleases. I also like Moxy and collective espresso for coffee shops in the downtown/otr area.

 

Looks pretty good IMO. It was fun picking out all the Cincinnati and Middletown locations. Especially the ones in my own neighborhood of Northside.

Pepper pod was one of the more obvious ones.

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CSR Sale (www.cincinnati-oh.gov)
 

So, I have been a solid no on this issue since I heard about it. Even more so after the whole NS debacle in New Palestine. But i think it's good fodder for discussion, and I'm open to the Yes arguments.

The way I see it, the yes argument is purely based on the offering price. 80 years worth of the current rent would be in the city's pocket as soon as the sale goes through. 25 years worth of the proposed higher rent if the lease is renegotiated. That money could go a long way into modernizing our infrastructure. But that's it, it couldn't be used to add new infrastructure, only to augment what currently exists. So using it to jumpstart a rapid transit system would be a no go, unless it's purely based on busses and current roads.

The no argument for me is three fold, 1. A strong distrust of NS as a company, especially after new Palestine. 2. The potential loss of revenue if we can convince NS to agree to the higher rent and/or end their exclusivity and allow more carriers to use the rail. This route could cover a big hole in Amtraks expansion plan, potentially linking Cincinnati to Chattanooga, and subsequently Atlanta by passenger rail again. Which give us federal funding opportunities. And 3. It's the only public rail left in the country.

What are you-all's thoughts?

 

IMO, the commandos had a better name and branding. But we will see if they pick up an old team name or go with something new.

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