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Old 10-21-2020, 04:15 PM
 
Location: La Jolla
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Cleveland Hopkins has one major advantage over Columbus and most U.S. airports. The Red Line rail rapid has a terminal right next to its luggage pick-up. For the $2.50 fare, you can go to Tower City in the heart of downtown, a massive complex with Cleveland's casino and two hotels, one a Ritz. Tower City is connected to Rocket Mortgage Field House (NBA, AHL) by an enclosed walkway. So you can go from the airport to the casino or RMFH without ever stepping outside. The pedestrian walkway also serves Progressive Field (MLB). For NFL games, the RTA Waterfront rail line runs from Tower City to First Energy Stadium.

The Red Line, for the same $2.50 fare also would take passengers from the airport to University Circle and Little Italy, 16 miles away. Case Western University has a Red Line station. Imagine if there was a rail rapid from the Columbus airport to Ohio State!!!

https://www.universitycircle.org/

This excellent mass transit functionality rarely is considered when evaluating Cleveland Hopkins.
This is almost certainly why Cleveland hosted the RNC and Columbus didn't. People can deny the efficacy of interurban rail all they want, but having airport to downtown connections is a huge factor into why someone will ever even decide to visit your city.

If you're dropping into an unfamiliar city for a few days, having to rent a car is a burden, as is $48 Lyft fares from the airport to your hotel.
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Old 10-21-2020, 05:42 PM
 
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This is almost certainly why Cleveland hosted the RNC and Columbus didn't. People can deny the efficacy of interurban rail all they want, but having airport to downtown connections is a huge factor into why someone will ever even decide to visit your city.

If you're dropping into an unfamiliar city for a few days, having to rent a car is a burden, as is $48 Lyft fares from the airport to your hotel.
Lmao no it's not. The majority of Americans are not rail enthusiasts like you are. If I want to visit a place for leisure, I'm not going to just decide to not go if the city doesn't have an airport to downtown rail, especially when things like Uber/Lyft exist. Cities like Nashville, Tampa, and San Antonio seem to be doing fine in tourism despite lacking this.

For people that can afford to travel for leisure, a $30 Uber (which is around what most of them are) is not a burden.
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Old 10-21-2020, 09:37 PM
 
Location: La Jolla
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Lmao no it's not. The majority of Americans are not rail enthusiasts like you are. If I want to visit a place for leisure, I'm not going to just decide to not go if the city doesn't have an airport to downtown rail, especially when things like Uber/Lyft exist. Cities like Nashville, Tampa, and San Antonio seem to be doing fine in tourism despite lacking this.

For people that can afford to travel for leisure, a $30 Uber (which is around what most of them are) is not a burden.
I guess from inside the bubble of Columbus, Ohio anyone using mass transit is a "rail enthusiast"

Also "traveling for leisure" isn't some kind of exclusive activity for the jet-set. That's why you occasionally see airfares for less than $50 between major cities. For a lot of people when you add up airfare, hotel/AirBnb/entertainment, yes the burden of paying 20X what a rail trip from the airport to downtown costs using rideshare would indeed make or break a trip plan.

As far as the RNC, you can read all about it here:


https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...-to-cleveland/
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Old 10-21-2020, 10:08 PM
 
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I guess from inside the bubble of Columbus, Ohio anyone using mass transit is a "rail enthusiast"

Also "traveling for leisure" isn't some kind of exclusive activity for the jet-set. That's why you occasionally see airfares for less than $50 between major cities. For a lot of people when you add up airfare, hotel/AirBnb/entertainment, yes the burden of paying 20X what a rail trip from the airport to downtown costs using rideshare would indeed make or break a trip plan.

As far as the RNC, you can read all about it here:


https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...-to-cleveland/
I'm not saying anyone that anyone that uses mass transit is an enthusiast. I'm just saying anyone that writes about it as much as I've seen you do is a rail enthusiast compared to the general population. It's not a bad thing, I just think you're overestimating how much the average person cares about it when visiting a city.

Sure, there are flights less than $50 but you know those are not the norm and certainly not what the average person spends on a flight. So you're arguing that someone can afford a flight, lodging, entertainment, food, etc... but having to pay for an Uber ride will make them reconsider their travel plans? I'm talking like a $30 Uber, which is how much some spend on a meal. If one is so burdened financially by this, then they should not be considering travelling in the first place, sorry

Also, The RNC 2012 was held in Tampa, which I don't believe has light rail at all, so I don't see the point.
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Old 10-21-2020, 11:17 PM
 
Location: La Jolla
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Sure, there are flights less than $50 but you know those are not the norm and certainly not what the average person spends on a flight. So you're arguing that someone can afford a flight, lodging, entertainment, food, etc... but having to pay for an Uber ride will make them reconsider their travel plans? I'm talking like a $30 Uber, which is how much some spend on a meal. If one is so burdened financially by this, then they should not be considering travelling in the first place, sorry

Also, The RNC 2012 was held in Tampa, which I don't believe has light rail at all, so I don't see the point.
Yes, that is exactly what I'm arguing and I've cancelled plans plenty of times for exactly this reason. I just returned from a trip to Los Angeles last week which was planned around the fact that the AirBnb was a mile from a Metro rail station.


I can find roundtrip airfare to Seattle for less than $200 usually. I like staying in expensive parts of town when I visit. If there wasn't a Link train at the airport and I was stuck taking rideshare everywhere, I might not be able afford the kind of accommodations I want which would cause me to cancel the whole trip. So its not about "not being able to afford travel" its about doing it the way I want. When I travel to Pittsburgh taking their great Airport Flyer service means paying $2.75 to get downtown as opposed to paying $40-50. Its a big deal.

Also, Cleveland got the RNC in 2016 when Columbus thought they were a contender (because of having better mass transit). So that is the point there, Tampa 2012 is complete non-sequitur.


https://thehill.com/policy/transport...convention-bid
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