Make Grand Grand
- AlkaliAxel
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Re: Make Grand Grand
I thought this was as much about re-doing the whole streetscape than it was about bike lanes..?
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Re: Make Grand Grand
For $4 million dollars you would sure think so...AlkaliAxel wrote: ↑Mon Aug 08, 2022 4:55 pm I thought this was as much about re-doing the whole streetscape than it was about bike lanes..?
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Re: Make Grand Grand
Brian Platt says they are gonna do the landscaping
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Re: Make Grand Grand
Those pucks they put down to "stop" sideshows are all popped up from one snow plow event. What a stupid waste of time and effort those were.
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Re: Make Grand Grand
There's still a few down there. And to their credit I haven't heard as many events down there recently.KCPowercat wrote: ↑Sun Jan 08, 2023 4:09 pm Those pucks they put down to "stop" sideshows are all popped up from one snow plow event. What a stupid waste of time and effort those were.
Probably more because of the weather than anything else
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Yeah there are still some. You can see exactly where the plows don't go.
I can't believe that didn't dawn on anybody putting those down.
I can't believe that didn't dawn on anybody putting those down.
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City staff said they were very cheap. They ordered 10,000 of them.
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Must have been free with our bollard purchase. Half ass through and through
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Tiny little medians being torn out already and the forms look like a much more substantial replacement median similar to that at 9th and Broadway
- Jblanco
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Re: Make Grand Grand
5th Street in Cincinnati. The street lights, streetscape, transit stop and amenites are fantastic.
KC can't even come close and looks podunk compared with this.
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KC can't even come close and looks podunk compared with this.
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Let's please not "strive" for that. It's incrementally better than Grand. Maybe.Jblanco wrote: ↑Thu May 18, 2023 5:47 pm 5th Street in Cincinnati. The street lights, streetscape, transit stop and amenites are fantastic.
KC can't even come close and looks podunk compared with this.
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you used the word incrementally wrong. that is light years beyond anything in downtown KCKCPowercat wrote: ↑Thu May 18, 2023 6:05 pmLet's please not "strive" for that. It's incrementally better than Grand. Maybe.Jblanco wrote: ↑Thu May 18, 2023 5:47 pm 5th Street in Cincinnati. The street lights, streetscape, transit stop and amenites are fantastic.
KC can't even come close and looks podunk compared with this.
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https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJJKIMI2v96 ... RgaBMdaeOJ
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Not seeing it. Seems pretty meh. Either way we need to aim for higher than that.mister816 wrote: ↑Thu May 18, 2023 6:25 pmyou used the word incrementally wrong. that is light years beyond anything in downtown KCKCPowercat wrote: ↑Thu May 18, 2023 6:05 pmLet's please not "strive" for that. It's incrementally better than Grand. Maybe.Jblanco wrote: ↑Thu May 18, 2023 5:47 pm 5th Street in Cincinnati. The street lights, streetscape, transit stop and amenites are fantastic.
KC can't even come close and looks podunk compared with this.
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- grovester
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Re: Make Grand Grand
Looks exactly like KC.
- TheLastGentleman
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I’m not seeing a huge difference either. The plaza at 1:08 looked kinda nice but that’s not really a “street” improvement
- FangKC
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Re: Make Grand Grand
I think what they have done with High Street in Columbus, Ohio, would be a good example. I would add more planted medians in places where they can be accommodated. Nationwide Boulevard there is also nice.
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Re: Make Grand Grand
Perhaps we should change the name of this thread to Make Grand Slam.
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Re: Make Grand Grand
Make Grand Bland