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Old 09-28-2013, 04:34 PM
 
Location: Mason, OH
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Yes, I will just take a number from the second line of the article, 968,000 jobs in the metro area. I noticed while they quoted density of jobs, etc. they carefully avoided giving any totals. I believe there is a definite reason for this. I doubt whether downtown and uptown can come up with 100,000 jobs combined, so they represent less than 10% of the total. Density per square mile in the high-rise section of the CBD is great, but it does not warrant crowning them as controlling the economic power of the region. But it is a damn good reason why Cincinnatians have not voted for rail rapid transit.
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Old 09-29-2013, 08:25 AM
 
Location: Cincinnati
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Yes, I will just take a number from the second line of the article, 968,000 jobs in the metro area. I noticed while they quoted density of jobs, etc. they carefully avoided giving any totals.
Riiiight. Must be a conspiracy.
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Old 09-29-2013, 08:35 AM
 
Location: Mason, OH
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Riiiight. Must be a conspiracy.
Maybe just intentionally misleading. High number densities per unit of area sounds a lot more impressive than the actual total number of jobs?
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Old 09-29-2013, 08:52 AM
 
Location: Cincinnati
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Maybe just intentionally misleading.
Sure, that makes sense. Urban Cincy, and Cincinnati's budget director are intentionally misleading. What are they trying to cover? Mason's dominance? Oh, I forgot. I live in the Mason Greater Metropolitan Area. Man, I ain’t got time for this. I'm out.
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Old 09-29-2013, 09:00 AM
 
Location: Mason, OH
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Sure, that makes sense. Urban Cincy, and Cincinnati's budget director are intentionally misleading. What are they trying to cover? Mason's dominance? Oh, I forgot. I live in the Mason Greater Metropolitan Area. Man, I ain’t got time for this. I'm out.
Urban Cincy is what the name implies, a vehicle to promote the urban area. Same goes for the City's budget director. So they are simply using figures with the highest impact. Can't blame them for that.
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Old 09-30-2013, 04:11 PM
 
Location: Cincinnati, OH
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I just noticed this thread, but I'll comment anyway.

I think a good start for light rail would be along rt. 50. Plenty of open space and not many intersections to go through.
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Old 09-30-2013, 04:14 PM
 
Location: Cincinnati
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Urban Cincy is what the name implies, a vehicle to promote the urban area. Same goes for the City's budget director. So they are simply using figures with the highest impact. Can't blame them for that.
Instead of discussing the facts presented in the article you have set up a very obvious straw-man.
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Old 07-08-2014, 10:34 AM
 
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Riiiight. Must be a conspiracy.
Love it
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Old 07-08-2014, 04:45 PM
 
Location: Mason, OH
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Love it
So how do you propose light rail be kick-started in Cincy? It has been languishing in no mans land for how long now, a decade or two? A citizens group is highly promoting the conversion of the Wasson Line to a bike trail. That would effectively remove it from the rail scene. At least the land would be put to use, which is better than the rail people have managed.
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Old 07-08-2014, 05:50 PM
 
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So how do you propose light rail be kick-started in Cincy? It has been languishing in no mans land for how long now, a decade or two? A citizens group is highly promoting the conversion of the Wasson Line to a bike trail. That would effectively remove it from the rail scene. At least the land would be put to use, which is better than the rail people have managed.
This is untrue, most people in neighborhoods served by Wasson Way seem to prefer that both bike and rail remain available to the corridor and at wassonway.org they say they also support light rail along the line in the future. Most everybody involved seems to like the recommended bike trail design from KZF that costs a bit more but is built mostly alongside the tracks and keeps the option for a future coinciding rail line still available.
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