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Re: OPINION – To Grow or Not to Grow? Hyde Park Square vote crucial test for Cincinnati’s Future

Matt Jacob — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 00:17:38 -0000

I'm glad they stuck with the additional parking + height versus watering it down a story over 5 feet of height. This should be an easy YES vote for council members that support city growth.

This development has the potential to turn HPS around and make it vibrant again. The hotel & parking garage are anchors that most NBDs would dream of and will serve the Square for a generation. History will look favorably on getting this built

Re: OPINION – To Grow or Not to Grow? Hyde Park Square vote crucial test for Cincinnati’s Future

T Brian Boland — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 18:22:01 -0000

Our cities can't be like bugs trapped in amber that never change. This project is a good one that fits in with the look and feel of the square, and council should approve it.

Re: Don’t we all need sidewalks?

Eric Ridenour — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 11:50:22 -0000

It's pretty common for this to be a city policy across the country. The best way I can think of to improve it would be added hard time intervals and ticketing for failure to do so like NYC but this would get a lot of pushback and lazy able-bodied people asking rhetoricals about the elderly and disabled.
One thing might be have the city or parks clear public stairways and pedestrian overpasses. Sometimes the overpasses will get salted but it's not much of a priority. Those can get pretty hairy after a good snow.

Re: Don’t we all need sidewalks?

wklis — Sat, 23 Nov 2024 19:13:52 -0000

Sidewalks were originally installed so that the people would not have to walk through the horse manure and urine that covered the streets. Which also stained the long dresses the women wore at the time.

Re: Taking Action in Cincinnati

Matt Jacob — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 09:27:09 -0000

Glad to see this guerilla urbanism - having citizens taking it into their own hands to make our city better without asking for permission. It's our city and it will be as great as we make it

Re: What happened to the Liberty Street road diet?

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Re: future congestion

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Re: A Standing Ovation for Newport’s New Premiere Music Venue

Heartwontbeat — Sat, 10 Dec 2022 18:21:11 -0000

Re: Downtown Signal Study Stuck in Political Traffic

Supah_Nopah — Sat, 10 Dec 2022 18:20:43 -0000

Re: What happened to the Liberty Street road diet?

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Re: CNU’s 2018 Transportation Summit: A New Traffic Model for Brent Spence Project

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Re: New Brent Spence Bridge Approach

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Re: Website Restored, What’d We Miss?

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Re: Induced_Demand

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Re: Website Restored, What’d We Miss?

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Re: CNU’s 2018 Transportation Summit: A New Traffic Model for Brent Spence Project

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Re: Venture Aims to Bring Passive Houses to Cincinnati

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Re: Columbus is not the biggest city in Ohio, and Indy’s not bigger than Boston

Joshua Richard Smith — Sat, 18 Jun 2022 04:42:03 -0000

Iknow this is 7 years old, but How could you leave Minneapolis out of this discussion lol

Re: What’s the full story behind Cincinnati’s 50-year population decline?

Michael Allen Potter — Sun, 05 Dec 2021 12:16:31 -0000

What is a "peer" city?

Re: A Standing Ovation for Newport’s New Premiere Music Venue

Matthew W. Hall — Sat, 12 Jun 2021 00:03:16 -0000

No one will want to live in earshot of this.

Re: Columbus is not the biggest city in Ohio, and Indy’s not bigger than Boston

Scott Langevin — Fri, 18 Dec 2020 10:49:01 -0000

Population density is an odd metric but if you go by metropolitan statistical area, which is a more telling metric, Cincinnati is the largest city in Ohio, followed by Columbus, then Cleveland

Re: Redefined Over-the-Rhine Intersection Prioritizes Pedestrians

Matt Jacob — Tue, 30 Jun 2020 11:54:32 -0000

Totally on board for making Elder (from Vine to McMicken) a two-way and then getting rid of the right turn at Vine/McMicken. That existing traffic island is out of place right now and already makes driving straight eastbound on McMicken difficult through the intersection because it is misaligned.

Not sure that an extra bumpout on McMicken at Frintz is wise. Traffic flow already backs up down westbound McMicken because parked cars don't allow the right-only lane (onto northbound Vine) to be used for a long enough stretch. In my mind there should probably be no parking from Frintz to Vine on McMicken's north side. Loosing those parking spaces won't be popular though.

In general, I like the bike lane idea through this area, but again I think there will be pushback on losing on-street parking as the trade off.

Some of the renderings show a traffic island on West McMicken and a bumpout on East McMicken that I'm not sure would make sense.

Capping Findlay St seems to make sense, but I think that turning buses will take issue with it. Not sure if closing off the streetcar stub's ability to go elsewhere is smart either. Elder between Vine/Race makes sense to go two-way as well, but probably needs a harder looks due to the streetcar stub as well. Not sure I see the need for Race turning two-way north of Elder or Findlay.

Re: Redefined Over-the-Rhine Intersection Prioritizes Pedestrians

Matthew W. Hall — Fri, 22 May 2020 13:55:03 -0000

Closing the convenience store and park allowed us to see what this intersection could be like without the constant crowd of people darting across the streets in all directions and filling the sidewalks with garbage. Now, we can see what it might become and how it might be valuable for many instead of the few. What was once seen as a dumping ground, can now be attract many people for many reasons from many directions.

Re: Redefined Over-the-Rhine Intersection Prioritizes Pedestrians

RyanLammi — Wed, 20 May 2020 11:16:26 -0000

I love the idea of capping off Findlay Street, ending the slip lane from northbound Vine to eastbound McMicken, and rerouting traffic to Elder. The only issue I have with this design, is that to get from the University of Cincinnati area to West McMicken, you would see way more people making the right turn onto McMicken to save a couple of blocks of driving.

The streetcars also currently stop in front of the maintenance facility along Race, so if you had a two way street, and the streetcar was stopped in front of the facility, you would have the potential for cars trying to drive into opposing traffic to get around a stopped streetcar. This could be avoided by stopping the two-way Race Street at Findlay, and forcing cars to take Elm the rest of the way to McMicken, or a change in streetcar policies to have them stop on Henry Street, which is closed to public traffic.

EDIT: This also assumes we'll never want to use the streetcar spurs on Findlay and Elder. This may be the case, but we would have to be certain before we close off Findlay and put two way traffic on Elder.