Ryan Crane

@PatrolSquadron Bad leadership too

@rccincinnati Democracy!

Why did they make the streets car a loop, one block apart, it's kind of a waste. All that extra track could have gone up to Clifton.

@prostreetcar @PatrolSquadron Why do they just "circulate?"

@PatrolSquadron Low-cost proposals to give the streetcar signal priority, a travel lane on Walnut and better parking enforcement have circulated in City Hall for several years. That said, other than on some rare event days, few people can walk from 12th to The Banks faster than the streetcar.

This guy claims he can walk faster than Cincinnati's streetcar, which completes the trip from The Banks to Rhinegeist in 18 minutes. No way he walks that in 18 minutes. Now imagine doing it with kids, in heels, with a baby stroller of if you're disabled or a visitor.

@nic_carter According to experts, Newsom has lost between $180B and $280B in fraud during his time as governor—equivalent to the GDP of many middle-income nations.

@annakhachiyan @KtunaxaAmerika People dont like to talk about Borderline Personality Organization cause theyre not up on the actual psychodynamics (primitive defense mechanisms vs "symptom" clusters or personality traits)

@KtunaxaAmerika Borderline disorders include BPD and NPD

What we call borderline isn’t “fear of abandonment” or “fear of intimacy” or whatever flattering but meaningless therapy buzzwords people love to throw around, it’s a cluster of symptoms that basically amount to a failure to progress beyond childhood emotional development but that’s increasingly everyone now

@orthodoxmason @AustinTunnell The "architect" used to be the master mason

How many architects today can walk out of their office straight onto a job site to directly inform and design process and details? Proud of @AustinTunnell and the work he does. He brings his head, heart, and hands together to make good things happen!

If I had the time to flesh this all out, I'd do a book on how American cities manage virtually everything at the wrong scale, and this accounts for about 80% of our routine issues. Policy wonks want to policy wonk everything; designers like me see everything as a design problem. But what I've become convinced of is we have a basic management problem. I find this to be really difficult to communicate, so bear with me (which would be the point of writing something out, right?) Smaller cities and towns have their limitations, but their local governments are intimately familiar with issues in town, know their constituents closely and are generally very accessible. As cities grow larger, the population of districts also grows. Sometimes to very large numbers. My district in my city has over 80,000 people in it - represented essentially by 2 people. Bear in mind there are entire towns of half that size with a City Council of 5-12 people. So there's that aspect - the political side. Then there's the day to day management side. As cities grow, they grow like corporations used to grow - vertically and siloed. It becomes harder and harder for lay people to know who to call, who does what, etc etc. I've seen a number of workarounds tried, with good managers and not so good ones. But fundamentally I see a systems problem - people just get farther and farther away from constituents and needs. One result is many very localized issues just don't get dealt with well at all. Everyone in the process seems to default to solving problems at the scale of the whole city, when in fact most issues are hyper-local. That hyper-local scale gets problem-solvers in the form of BIDs, CIDs, Place-management organizations, like mine. And these groups often do a great job - because again they operate at a fine scale and are accessible. But parts of the community without those groups, just generally don't get their issues solved. This is but one part of a much longer thought train, but over and over again I've seen how we have countless issues because of lack of management at the right scale - a more localized one. And those issues then metastasize and become much bigger fights. Much of this is rooted in the very 20th century idea that consolidation of governments and annexations would lead to management efficiencies. Because that was the mentality of much of society at the time. Might've sounded good in a textbook or a seminar, but it just hasn't worked. My gut tells me so much of cities would work 1000% better if we had smaller-scale, localized governance and management. I feel like people instinctively know this or sense it, but we can't figure out how to communicate it well or solve for it.

@CincinnatiOtto It's because you're paying to use the land and attached infrastructure

I get it. No one loves paying taxes but this did not come out of nowhere. Local governments let valuations surge and treated it as a windfall instead of adjusting. This is where silly concepts like taxing “windfall profits” and “taxing unrealized gains” really screws the average person. This is not left or right as much as representation failure at every level: state, county and municipal. Property tax is the most stable and transparent tax we have but when it is allowed to surge with short-term market dynamics, people will push back if not well represented. Ohio gives voters a direct path to the ballot for a reason. When elected officials ignore pressure long enough this is the result. Even if this fails now the trend is clear. An aging population with fixed incomes cannot absorb rising property taxes indefinitely.

@PatrolSquadron Suburbanites are cowards

If every suburban tough guy on here, actually wasn't a cuck, hiding in their suburbs we wouldn't need this It would only take 2.5% of the suburban population, moving into the city limits, and politics are flipped But you won't do this anon, just want to talk tough from Mason

@CharlestonArchi Also talking their own book. If i only have one product to sell, then I'm gonna tell you its the only thing that will work

It's an article of faith.

@TimothyBoland1 Buffered bike lanes better

Victory Parkway in front of XU. Here's an AI image of a change that increases student safety, slows traffic and is nicer for everyone. We already have this exact setup in other locations we can benchmark, so why should it take years for a change like this to happen?

@U_arctos There's some similarities in how the city funds sidewalk maintenance, but in most instances the sidewalks are not deliberately vandalized at the property owners expense

@U_arctos I think theres a reasonable argument to be made that, if the city is mandating the property be maintained in a certain way, and the maintenance issue is the result of vandalism (crime), the city is essentially creating an unfunded mandate on property owners to clean graffiti

am i understanding this right? these property owners are upset because they expect the city to maintain their private property for them?

Hey whats going on with the Brent Spence Bridge? Isn't a judge supposed to make a decision about something or other from a couple years ago?

@benjamintink Alley with parking in the back?

Might have a project *pending due diligence* on the edge of an Eichler neighborhood. Go full infill, Eichler copycat?

@1000yearhouse @BDoge84171 @CharlestonArchi @ACBACharleston I'm right here

@rccincinnati @BDoge84171 @CharlestonArchi @ACBACharleston Something’s fishy with this account.

DO NOT ATTEND @ACBACharleston for architecture. Strongly recommend against. They replaced their classically trained head with A) a modernist B) completely illiterate in classical design. Recommend retracting applications at once and going elsewhere.

@1000yearhouse @BDoge84171 @CharlestonArchi @ACBACharleston Yeah I think most PAs hire professionally trained architects who can pretty safely be assumed to be "modernist" in orientation. So, ACBA just hired someone who might be presumed to have a similarly "corrupt agenda"...

@rccincinnati @BDoge84171 @CharlestonArchi @ACBACharleston Just kinda a place holder for the thing you guys refer to as the “antithesis” of the original vision as was a bit dramatically worded.

@1000yearhouse @BDoge84171 @CharlestonArchi @ACBACharleston Now you're the one who has to define your terms...what is a "corrupt agenda?"

@rccincinnati @BDoge84171 @CharlestonArchi @ACBACharleston Don’t HPC’s essentially start out with corrupt agendas tho?

This, as they say, slaps

@1000yearhouse @BDoge84171 @CharlestonArchi @ACBACharleston Cincinnati Preservation Association, probably basically any historical preservation society in your town

@BDoge84171 @CharlestonArchi @ACBACharleston These are generalities. Def wouldn’t bring HOA’s into this mix. Can you provide examples, the mission statements you speak of and how what’s happening now is opposite to that mission statement?