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A walk to observe the streetcar reboot of OTR from a sidewalk perspective.
Its amazing how much you can miss driving, watching where you're going your vision narrows down to a small tunnel. Riding a bike, you notice even more but that tunnel vision has only widened slightly. No, you have to walk it to really see what is.
For instance, wood cobbles peaking out from broken asphalt in Wilkymacky Alley.

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The streetcar will wrap around two sides of this lot, it won't stay a parking lot long.
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A senior center will occupy this building, no need for them to beg a ride anywhere with a stop across the street.
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Many buildings have these cool courtyards. Reminds me of when we walked around Paris.
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Another lot, the Findlay Gardens, this won't stay empty long either.
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Looks like people other than downtowners are already benefiting from the streetcar.
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It amazed me how seemingly the entire OTR loop of the streetcar is under construction at the moment. Maybe it will be running by the All Star Game.
Also can someone tell me where the streetcar stop is for Findlay Market? It appears Cincy Bell put a new manhole cover right in the middle of it.
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The main entrance to Rhinegeist Brewery, steps from the streetcar stop. Just a few drunken steps.
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This building is going to go to make way for the substation. No worries, thats not the original facade, nothing historic is lost.
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5 comments:

  1. a reference to a mid-century avant-garde intellectual urbanist-before-there-were-urbanists movement?

    nice.

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  2. a reference to a mid-century avant garde urbanist-before-there-were-urbanists intellectual movement?

    nice.

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  3. wait! they're ripping out the gardens?! that would be an absolute shame!

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  4. There are no plans, but an empty lot on a busy corner with a streetcar shooting past? I don't see it staying that way long.

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  5. Hopefully it would just be relocated. I'm all for urbanization but I also really enjoy food, and locally grown sustainable food, at that. The more urban our environment gets, the more we forget what it takes to get our food to our plate. Having that little plot in such a prominent spot serves as a good reminder that it takes a lot of space and energy to supply food for all these people.

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