This "fix" and the traffic "fix" proposed for University Circle.  And, the "Opportunity Corridor Fix..."  Like we need a hole in the head.

I agree. Once again public resources go where the Power people

want it to go, no matter that other needs are more crucial.

For those of you in 2010 researching this potential boondoggle, here's the title of the article:

Plans in works to straighten out twisted Van Aken intersection

Plan tries to work out the twists and turns

Thursday, April 24, 2008 Laura Johnston Plain Dealer Reporter

When we are in a economic downturn and a foreclosure crisis and a national security crisis, it is time to polish and resole the shoes we have not buy new ones. Before you know it we'll have elastic bands keeping our shoes on and that'll be a shame because we didn't resole them or polish them when we might have. It'll be time to resurrect the Civilian Conservation Corps and the Work Progress Administration before we know it.

Road work - we've got it backward. In Cleveland Heights the section of Lee Road that runs from the parks to the Cedar lee Business District is being resurfaced - finally! Hopefully they will include some traffic calming measures as drivers approach and leave the area near Fairfax School. (Don't hold your breath.) Now it would have made much more sense to do this before CH taxpayers spent $11 million on a "signature bridge" to nowhere. Granted the bridge structure after a lot of ballyhoo and objecting from the 90+ architects in Cleveland Heights for the fortress like thing that was originally proposed has been realized as a lovely piece of public art. However, who uses it? Maybe Steve Wood, Library Director whose office is on the other side of the street from the library. Maybe someone from Heights Parent Center if they need a book or periodical, some kids who want to be up there looking at traffic cause it's cool, but since there is no Dobama with patrons using overflow parking during evening events, no significant activity in the old YMCA building, we have to wonder why we paid for this lovely bridge. During the arguments, we heard that because a child was killed by an automobile on Lee Road in the area, we had to have the bridge. So my argument was that that point meant that we should calm the traffic on this major speedway next to a school. (Lee Road is the highway between Cleveland and East Cleveland - I know I live right by it.) But if they had put the traffic calming in and then reassess  the need for a bridge, we might have saved $11 million. Oh well, it's too late to consider that now.

I have to applaud Studio Techne and the architect (Dru McKeown) who had the brilliant idea for this beautiful structure for stepping into a pile of %#@t a mile high deep and wide and coming out smelling like a rose, but first things first. First slow the traffic then build a bridge if you can prove that it is required.

Let's fix the potholes and give those folk in University Circle a map before we build anymore "fixes". I can't believ that these highly paid physicians whom we trust with our helahcare can't find a way to get from the airport to University Circle or the Clinc (duh - take the train to Tower City and the Euclid Corridor to the Clinic or CWRU - what else - grab a cab).

Let's get the RTA to ride the wind and support a wifi corridor to bridge the digital divide. Let's see more Transit Oriented Development from them before we make more nonsense in the suburbs. There are good ideas in the heads of visionaries in NEO. Why aren't we listening?

 

 

But who would park in the five story parking garage being built at the clinic, susan?  If the doctors and employees took public transit, would there be empty spaces in the parking garage?  Ride public transportation.  You must be joking.  We are not a cosmopoliton city where ALL people ride public transit.  Our overpriced transit system growing more expensive each day is only for the poor and downtrodden.  Does anyone else question the latest ads on the buses which refer to our #1  status in the nation and the tag line is "no, really".  What is up with that?  Even the transit system doesn't believe they should be rated #1. !?!  What is it with Cleveland and this constant put down of ourselves.  If you got the number 1 rating in the nation, wear it and wear it proudly.  Enough with the put downs already.

 

What bright PR firm came up with that ad campaign?  I wonder.  I've got some ideas but no real information.

Yes, let's make it as simple as possible for the way folks are accustomed to reading these discussions. I do like the 50 comments per page and the threaded list expanded. When GCBL went to collapsing the comments, I about went nuts having to click back and forth. They returned the option of seeing the comment list expanded.

I like the crazy quilt approach.  As I will readily admit, my thoughts are scattered, so this random format works for me.  Expect the unexpected and all.

The only thing I miss with REALNEO is a sitemap.  That's not a Drupal feature is it?