Info about The Banks and surrounding area, please (Cincinnati, Orange: neighborhood, luxury)

[progmac]

agreed, the wire situation is ridiculous. this is something a good city council could take care of quickly.

[Wilson513]

Originally Posted by progmac

agreed, the wire situation is ridiculous. this is something a good city council could take care of quickly.

The lack of guidance from the City on this is breathtaking. I have seen my own street, Sycamore Street, opened for a gas line upgrade more than 10 blocks long as a part of a system upgrade, closed up, only to be re-opened a couple of years later by MSD for a sewer line. And, the electric lines aare all still up in the air in a big mess. The City could require that all utilities be placed underground as a condition to opening up blocks long trenches in the street. Its just they they don't care because they are too stupid to realize that an OTR without spaghetti in the air will be a far more attractive and safe neighborhood. Morons!

[abr7rmj]

Oakley Square is a particular problem. With all the construction and road-ripping they've done on Madison, would it kill them to bury some lines?

[kjbrill]

The overhead wire situation in the most visible new development in the City is inexcusable. We are not talking about retrofit or any other excuse. I would never have conceived underground utilitites would not have been required.

[abr7rmj]

Originally Posted by kjbrill

The overhead wire situation in the most visible new development in the City is inexcusable. We are not talking about retrofit or any other excuse. I would never have conceived underground utilitites would not have been required.

It's not really an overhead wire situation like you see in Pleasant Ridge or Oakley. It's mostly confined to the traffic lights and the intersections. That, hopefully, is a temporary situation while the rest of the neighborhood gets built out. There is certainly no spaghetti bowl of wires in The Banks.

That being said ... the current situation is completely unacceptable. It's ugly and needs to be fixed yesterday.

[Wilson513]

Originally Posted by abr7rmj

I noticed this right away as soon as The Banks started to open and commented on it earlier. What's the point of hundreds of millions of dollars worth of development when the traffic lights are bouncing on ugly wires and dangling in the wind like Main Street in Enid, Okla.

Put the traffic lights on solid metal poles, bury all overhead wires in downtown and OTR (most are buried downtown anyway), and then for god's sake start burying the wires in Oakley, Pleasant Ridge and elsewhere. Oakley is a particular wire eyesore.

Interestingly, Main Street in Enid OK (there it is "Maine" Street) looks exaclty as our City Morons should have our downtown streets look here. No spaghetti, no traffic signals dangling from the end of a wire, hanging on a cable draped across the street:

[abr7rmj]

Nice shot of Enid! Admittedly, I've never been there. I just pulled it out of thin air. But yes, those are exactly the kind of streetlights and wire-free views that we should have in Cincy. And, in fairness, most of downtown and OTR do have buried wires and lights on permanent poles. It's The Banks and much of the rest of the city that have the unsightly wires.

[Matthew Hall]

Will the second phase between freedom museum and the bengals stadium get underway any time soon?

[abr7rmj]

Originally Posted by Matthew Hall

Will the second phase between freedom museum and the bengals stadium get underway any time soon?

The parking garage/support structures are currently under construction west of the FC toward Paul Brown Stadium. But I think they will want to finish the first phase before starting on the second. The first phase still has an empty pad for an office building (not close to being built) and a multi-story hotel (letter of intent is close to being signed, probably will start construction next year).

[abr7rmj]

Looks like Johnny Rockets is getting ready to open at The Banks ...

Johnny Rockets at Banks to open Oct. 27. - Business Courier