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- Fri Apr 27, 2012 4:40 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: $700 million I-80/29 reconstruction project
- Replies: 298
- Views: 108338
You also have to remember that it's not six contiguous lanes in each direction like I-80 eastbound between 42nd and I-480, but two systems consisting of three lanes each - one for I-80 and one for I-29. It's more like I-80 around the I-L-Q exits. If you count all those lanes, it's actually 13. In t...
- Sat Apr 07, 2012 1:03 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: $700 million I-80/29 reconstruction project
- Replies: 298
- Views: 108338
- Sat Nov 19, 2011 9:27 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: $700 million I-80/29 reconstruction project
- Replies: 298
- Views: 108338
- Sun Nov 13, 2011 9:31 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: $700 million I-80/29 reconstruction project
- Replies: 298
- Views: 108338
The bridge is to be 10 lanes I thought? Â That's what Iowa DOT has on their schematics of the project: http://www.iowadot.gov/cbinterstate/Segment1.asp.
- Wed Nov 02, 2011 7:29 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: City's transport plan to get update
- Replies: 276
- Views: 36916
- Sun Oct 23, 2011 1:15 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: City's transport plan to get update
- Replies: 276
- Views: 36916
There is any number of countries out there that are far superior to the US in innumerable ways. Right now the question I'm grappling with is, do I stay here and try to help sift through the wreckage of our current train-wreck existence, or do I go to a country whose citizens get life? Can we put a ...
- Mon Sep 26, 2011 8:22 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: City's transport plan to get update
- Replies: 276
- Views: 36916
Yeah, I guess I don't see the point you're trying to make, omaja. Yes, that's still a small percentage of the overall population and is the result of many factors that far outweigh pure mode choice---i.e. the horrible transportation planning habits of about the last quarter of America's existence. ...
- Sun Sep 25, 2011 4:36 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: City's transport plan to get update
- Replies: 276
- Views: 36916
- Sat Sep 24, 2011 5:03 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: City's transport plan to get update
- Replies: 276
- Views: 36916
- Tue Sep 20, 2011 6:45 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: City's transport plan to get update
- Replies: 276
- Views: 36916
- Tue Aug 09, 2011 8:10 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Megabus - New IA Service - Omaha next?
- Replies: 51
- Views: 15377
- Sat Jul 30, 2011 5:08 pm
- Forum: Urban Omaha Development
- Topic: The Highline (Northern Natural Gas Building)
- Replies: 197
- Views: 47025
- Fri Jun 24, 2011 5:51 pm
- Forum: Sports
- Topic: Stanley Cup
- Replies: 23
- Views: 2257
Not at all. Â I don't think you can really compare the Boston-New York relationship to many others (maybe Dallas-Houston or LA-San Francisco?). Â I'm not excusing the way Boston fans sometimes behave, just offering an explanation for it. Â When you see Boston fans lashing out at New York in an unrel...
- Fri Jun 24, 2011 5:04 am
- Forum: Sports
- Topic: Stanley Cup
- Replies: 23
- Views: 2257
I think it's safe to say that Boston is America's best sports city. Sorry New Yorkers. With probably the worst fans, Philly excepted. What's funny is they will still have a little brother complex when it comes to New York. A significantly more frugal, cleaner, better educated little brother, mind y...
- Thu Jun 23, 2011 9:48 pm
- Forum: Statistics
- Topic: Kiplinger: 10 Great Cities for New College Grads
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2832
Any list that has Baltimore as number one should automatically lose its credibility. Â One of the most dangerous cities in America being the best city for new college grads? Â I don't think so. Â All of the other choices seem to make a lot of sense though. Â Omaha seems like the odd man out, though.
- Thu Jun 23, 2011 2:34 pm
- Forum: Urban Omaha Development
- Topic: Omaha Civic Auditorium Discussion
- Replies: 459
- Views: 62560
Ironically, if you look at Google Maps, you'd think Creighton already owns the Civic. Â It is the same brown color they use to denote places of education whereas the Qwest Center is the usual gray. Â Maybe Google knows something we don't. Â :;):
- Thu Jun 23, 2011 8:37 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Omaha Streetcar Discussion
- Replies: 3551
- Views: 496298
It had better be a hybridized streetcar-light rail system. Â If they are just planning a short stub network for Downtown/Midtown, it will fall short of its potential. Â There needs to be seamless connectivity with West Omaha and Bellevue at the very least. Not like this study won't be followed up by...
- Thu Jun 16, 2011 9:24 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Omaha Downtown/Midtown Transit Alternatives Analysis
- Replies: 32
- Views: 5713
I'm merely arguing that they perform less than ideally. A monopoly is the most ideal way to maximize profits and yet we see transit authorities in dire financial straights almost in perpetuity. Why? Not so much because they are monopolies but because of the antiquated work rules, belligerent unio...
- Thu Jun 16, 2011 1:00 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Omaha Downtown/Midtown Transit Alternatives Analysis
- Replies: 32
- Views: 5713
The benefits of having multiple providers duplicating service, providing options and competing with one another are pretty slim when we're talking about local public transportation. Â They can't really compete on amenities (like air and long-distance rail travel can) and margins will be razor thin w...
- Thu Jun 16, 2011 9:06 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Omaha Downtown/Midtown Transit Alternatives Analysis
- Replies: 32
- Views: 5713
- Wed Jun 15, 2011 10:09 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Omaha Downtown/Midtown Transit Alternatives Analysis
- Replies: 32
- Views: 5713
As for underserved areas, what ends up happening is that users in busier areas pay more to subsidize users in less profitable areas. Quite frankly, that is just wishful thinking unless the government mandates it. A private company will not maintain underperforming or loss-making routes simply beca...
- Wed Jun 15, 2011 8:18 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Should cars be taxed by the mile?
- Replies: 85
- Views: 9894
My whole point is that, when arguing in the realm of Public Good, you can't argue for public funding of a semi-excludable object (the WDE) while arguing against it for a non-excludeable object (a street car). I mean, obviously you CAN argue that, but what I'm trying to say is there is a logical dis...
- Sat Jun 11, 2011 10:22 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Omaha Downtown/Midtown Transit Alternatives Analysis
- Replies: 32
- Views: 5713
The best way to deal with transit is to free it up. Rather than a city owned/chartered/whatever bus company, allow the market to determine the extent to which buses, or trains (highly unlikely here), or street cars are needed. The problem with public transit systems is that, like any other centra...
- Sat Jun 11, 2011 10:17 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Frontier, Nonstops to LAX, Omaha a focus city, etc.
- Replies: 21
- Views: 4695
- Mon Jun 06, 2011 12:41 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Highway Funding Debate
- Replies: 98
- Views: 11743
Forget Phoenix/Tucson proper... I-10 has at least as much commercial traffic as I-80... the vpd counts between our two metros are comparable... No, it does not. Â The total volumes may be comparable, but I-80 moves far more commercial traffic than I-10 by virtue of its routing through the middle of...
- Sat Jun 04, 2011 10:09 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Highway Funding Debate
- Replies: 98
- Views: 11743
ADOT estimates that I-10 traffic between the two metros will exceed 200,000 vpd by 2013. 200,000... and they're still debating whether to build a bypass to handle the traffic. The sections of I-10 that see 100,000+ AADT around Phoenix are significantly wider (6-14 total lanes including HOV). A fou...
- Fri Jun 03, 2011 10:41 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Highway Funding Debate
- Replies: 98
- Views: 11743
Ok, Omaja, now you are playing it blind in both directions. First you claim that the only reason the expand to six lanes is to relieve the overwhelming heavy vehicle traffic. This notion isn't touched on at all in the World Herald article and mostly irrelevant outside of trucking company lobbyist...
- Thu Jun 02, 2011 11:23 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Highway Funding Debate
- Replies: 98
- Views: 11743
It's eye opening that I-10 between Phoenix and Tucson... several times larger than the combined areas of Omaha/Lincoln (I'll bet Tucson is quickly nearing the combined populations of our two cities alone!)... still get by with two lanes of interstate between them! It IS a waste of money. I think ...
- Wed Jun 01, 2011 10:03 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Highway Funding Debate
- Replies: 98
- Views: 11743
- Wed Jun 01, 2011 6:15 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Highway Funding Debate
- Replies: 98
- Views: 11743
- Mon May 30, 2011 2:35 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Highway Funding Debate
- Replies: 98
- Views: 11743
I wonder -- with as much as the world has changed since this massive endeavor started -- if state and local transportation planners regret that they put all their eggs (eggs being millions upon millions of dollars) into this one basket. Think of how much this has cost and all the meaningful, sustai...
- Fri May 20, 2011 1:07 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Highway 370 (Gretna to I-80)
- Replies: 25
- Views: 4161
- Fri May 20, 2011 7:09 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Highway 370 (Gretna to I-80)
- Replies: 25
- Views: 4161
Maybe all those people you know would decide to live closer in if the traffic and congestion of their commute on 370 became too much headache to deal with. :;): I hope you don't get upset if you get your wish eventually and it ends up pricing current residents out of their homes/apartments, forcin...
- Thu May 19, 2011 1:45 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Highway 370 (Gretna to I-80)
- Replies: 25
- Views: 4161
The entire stretch from Gretna averaged over 11,000 vehicles per day in 2008. Â Four years later, I wouldn't be shocked if that number had jumped to 20,000+ per day in some places. Â And for a mostly two-lane road, that is quite a bit of traffic. Â Most major four-lane streets in Omaha see 30,000-60...
- Mon May 16, 2011 11:09 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Omaha's Metro Transit ranked 33rd among top 100...
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2159
Why does this surprise either of you.... NY, DC, Boston, Chicago, San Fran, Denver, Portland.... I bet you can't name 26 more. LA, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Salt Lake City could be added to that list as well. But in reality, it's the top six: NYC, DC, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia and San Franci...
- Thu May 12, 2011 4:24 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Parkageddon 2011
- Replies: 47
- Views: 7027
I am sure this photo will make some people upset. No, it just makes local media look all the more like idiots considering there is ample parking to support any large event Omaha might consider hosting. Here's Boston right after 5: That even looks lighter than normal. Â Looks like you missed one of ...
- Tue May 10, 2011 6:48 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Highway Funding Debate
- Replies: 98
- Views: 11743
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVdsqc0NmUc[/youtube] Here's a cool video of the stretch of freeway in question. Â Doesn't look like they've done much of anything to it since the 1970s except re-stripe the left shoulder to provide for a fifth general purpose lane. Â No real room to expand, e...
- Tue May 10, 2011 6:36 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Parkageddon 2011
- Replies: 47
- Views: 7027
- Tue May 10, 2011 10:20 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Parkageddon 2011
- Replies: 47
- Views: 7027
Sounds a bit like the people who were bitter about Rosenblatt closing are still on a tirade to devalue the new stadium. Â There is probably more parking within a five-minute walking radius of North Downtown than there is within a mile or two of Rosenblatt. Â Rosenblatt was in an infinitely inferior ...
- Mon May 09, 2011 3:42 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Highway Funding Debate
- Replies: 98
- Views: 11743