Make Grand Grand

Issues concerning Downtown as described by the Downtown Council. River to 31st Street, I-35 to Bruce R. Watkins.
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I thought this was as much about re-doing the whole streetscape than it was about bike lanes..?
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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..?
For $4 million dollars you would sure think so...
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Brian Platt says they are gonna do the landscaping

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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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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.
There's still a few down there. And to their credit I haven't heard as many events down there recently.

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.
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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
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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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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.

(starts @ 30 seconds)
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJJKIMI2v96 ... RgaBMdaeOJ
Let's please not "strive" for that. It's incrementally better than Grand. Maybe.
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KCPowercat wrote: Thu May 18, 2023 6:05 pm
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.

(starts @ 30 seconds)
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJJKIMI2v96 ... RgaBMdaeOJ
Let's please not "strive" for that. It's incrementally better than Grand. Maybe.
you used the word incrementally wrong. that is light years beyond anything in downtown KC
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mister816 wrote: Thu May 18, 2023 6:25 pm
KCPowercat wrote: Thu May 18, 2023 6:05 pm
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.

(starts @ 30 seconds)
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJJKIMI2v96 ... RgaBMdaeOJ
Let's please not "strive" for that. It's incrementally better than Grand. Maybe.
you used the word incrementally wrong. that is light years beyond anything in downtown KC
Not seeing it. Seems pretty meh. Either way we need to aim for higher than that.
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Looks exactly like KC.
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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
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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.

https://www.google.com/maps/@39.9826043 ... 384!8i8192

https://www.google.com/maps/@39.9681107 ... 384!8i8192
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Perhaps we should change the name of this thread to Make Grand Slam.
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Make Grand Bland
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