Neigeville2
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4 minutes ago, donNdonelson2 said:
Creating street activation is practically impossible, other than adding small kiosks to the exterior.
That whole section of DT is like that. If there were a lot of street traffic little kiosks would work for selling things like crepes and tacos, but it's hard to imagine anything that size that would serve to lure new people to the area which seems pretty barren a lot of the time. I'm not downtown during weekdays so maybe it's different then.
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28 minutes ago, donNdonelson2 said:
TPAC, for a venue of its age, is quite serviceable. It could, however, benefit from some updates and I’m hoping that some expansion of service and support spaces is forthcoming with the move of the museum. The Star dressing room got a much needed facelift when Dolly Parton was “in the House” for the mounting of the tour of her 9 to 5 stage musical.
Is there any way to knock some holes in the exterior walls for some street activation? It's such a hostile fortress at the street level. And the balcony in Jackson hall is a nightmare, climbing over people to reach your seat. I almost fell on someone last time.
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I'm fine with Wego and I think the purple buses are lively and eye-catching. It would be harder to see a black and gold bus coming. It's good to see a bus from far away, it makes the wait seem shorter and people get their passes and money ready.
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17 hours ago, markhollin said:
I love the way building to the curb makes the streets look narrower and more hilly. I used to perceive Sobro as kind of flat and now it's starting to look like San Francisco. We are a hilly city.-
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I've driven well over a million miles in my life, unfortunately, and it never fails to amaze me that there are people who don't find driving incredibly boring, tedious and aggravating, but then I know people who like to wash dishes, mow lawns, and all kinds of other boring stupid chores. To each his own, as long as you're not poisoning my air or wrecking my climate.
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I love that red terracotta ornamentation. There's not a lot of it around, it seems to be a product of a certain time frame, but I wish it would come back. I like it much better than the white glazed terracotta that you see in Chicago.
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Our population continues to become more urban and our cities aren't really that far apart within their regions (People on this board like to talk about how 50% of the US population is within 600 miles of Nashville), we just have a big empty space in the plains and mountains (although really, trains built the West back in the day). It would take a lot of improvement to make train travel suitable between the coasts, other than for recreation, but Amtrak currently has five profitable lines and three of them are in California, so it's not just the northeast.
Per Wikipedia, high speed rail beats air travel, (including getting to and from the airport and going thru security) on trips under 430 miles, which would get us to Memphis, Chattanooga, Knoxville, Atlanta, St Louis, Indianapolis, Charlotte, Columbus OH and probably more I'm not thinking of, and it is very competitive for places it can reach in under 4 1/2 hours, which would get you from here to Chicago, New Orleans, Cleveland and other places. It beats car travel anywhere. The cities in the Great Lakes area aren't very far apart either, Milwaukee-Chicago-Gary-Detroit-Erie-Toledo-Buffalo.
Of course the biggest problem is the difficulty of getting infrastructure funding, eminent domain, years long environmental review processes and fighting off brain-eating NIMBY hordes, and the political influence of the Airlines (Amtrak ate their lunch with the Acela causing Southwest to cancel their service between DC and NYC and they are not fans) not to mention getting each state on board during these fractious times, but as a practical rather than a political matter, it's completely feasible.
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10 hours ago, BnaBreaker said:The automobile as a concept is not the problem. As long as we can eventually learn how to cut fossil fuels out of the equation for good, and learn that cars should be part of a larger transportation strategy rather than THE strategy, and learn that designing our cities around making driving easier rather than around functionality or efficiency is not a good idea, then the car very much has a solid and cemented place in our future. I think it's the fetishization of the automobile that has gotten us into trouble. It should be seen as a tool, but instead it is seen by many as a 'way of life' or a 'symbol of freedom.'
I blame the GI Generation. Glad they beat the Nazis, but there was an attitude post WWII that the old world was swept away, you can see it in the architecture which is totally divorced from all prior tradition, and they bought into the idea that cars and planes were the only forms of transport that we needed. There were crazy proposals to knock down Paris and replace it with high rises and expressways, fill in the canals in Amsterdam with concrete so cars could drive on them, etc. except we actually did it, subsidizing sprawl and knocking down old neighborhoods.
They thought passenger rail was dead and freight rail was a dying technology so they just gave the tracks to the freight companies. Now train technology has advanced so far that a huge and growing percentage of freight is carried on miles-long trains, and if we had kept the tracks, we could be riding here to Memphis in under an hour. (Italians are commuting to jobs in Milan from as far as Rome). Automobiles have reached their limit with three-hour commutes and are becoming a burdensome legacy. Dumb choices and one that increased personal debt massively as well. Good work on those Nazis, though.
The answer isn't to get rid of cars and put all our eggs in a different basket, of course. But some balance and variety of choices would be nice.
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My biggest hope is that under the influence of Amazon, our bus system will become more like Seattle's . Seattle has figured out that people will ride buses in droves if the service is frequent and convenient enough.
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1 hour ago, BnaBreaker said:I seem to recall there being ample public input by way of multiple public meetings, which is where the infamous "those people" lady got to speak her piece.
I went to one of those meetings, there were 100's of people. This went on for months, and opponents were still saying this came out of nowhere with no public input.
Monday morning quarterbacking is easy, the fact is right now any transit proposal that catches the attention of certain factions will be shot down with any tactics necessary. We of course need to build up bus service first, but under the rejected plan light rail wouldn't begin until a decade out. To the average person it meant, they're going to spend billions of dollars tomorrow and build a system appropriate to a much larger city." We will be that larger city sooner than you think.
I sincerely believe most people have no concept of time (this is one reason most people are broke). I once gave someone a young pine tree I found in my yard and a couple of years later he told me he'd had to cut it down because he'd planted it a foot from his house and it was now huge. I said, "Why did you plant it so close, you know what a pine tree is, right?" and he said "Yeah, but I didn't know it would grow that fast." In his mind its size say, ten years from now was no concern because ten years from now is not real. I've heard people (not temporary residents) say "We were going to plant an apple tree (or walnut or whatever) but then we found out you don't get apples for 3 years." How soon will they get apples from not planting the tree? The ultimate scope of the transit plan should not be revealed to the average idiot.
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24 minutes ago, Dale said:
My surmise it that Nashville is “Go big or go home” which I could see going down big again.
Well I guess you weren't paying attention, but the reason we went big is that when we went small that went down in flames, thanks to the Koch brothers and Lee Beaman. Fortunately Beaman has crawled back under his rock and is presumably back to bullying women and videotaping himself with prostitutes instead of telling Nashville how to please him, but we still have a state legislature intent on overriding the vast majority of Nashville voters so I doubt Nashville can do anything so daring as to actually build a bus lane without paternalistic interference from those who know so much better than us how to manage our city.
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On 11/6/2018 at 8:00 PM, Dale said:
Pretty cool low-budget strategy for Omaha ...
This is just the same as the AMP. Like the AMP proposal it has dedicated lanes and signal priority, which is apparently far beyond what is possible for Nashville.
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On 11/4/2018 at 5:20 AM, markhollin said:
50 Lindlsey Ave. (3 stories, 6 units) update. Brickwork complete.
Looking NE from Lindsley Ave., 1/2 block east of Academy Place:
Looking west along Lindsley Ave., 1/2 block west of Hermitage Ave:
Only landscaping can save a building like that. They need to get some ivy groving up those walls as soon as possible.
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4 hours ago, titanhog said:
Personally...even though I don't care for standing in line, I like to know they've checked me off and I've actually stood at the machine and pushed all the buttons and know when I leave there, there's a good chance my vote will be counted. I'm a little leery of mailing in a ballot and knowing for sure it got there, was properly processed and is counted. I do, however, like the ease.
I'm hopeful there will come a day where there is some type of technological advance that allows each of us to easily vote from home, knowing without a doubt that we're counted and secure. (yes...may be too much to ask...but would surely increase the number of Americans who would vote).
In Oregon you can get a text automatically when your ballot is counted.
The thing about fraud, is with individual paper ballots it would have to be done on a massive scale to make any difference. Electronically, the possibility for fraud is very real, especially since our elections are managed by partisan officeholders (the secretary of state of each state,) In a couple of states this year, the secretary of state is running for governor, a ridiculous conflict of interest that can only inspire distrust.
The British also have an excellent paper ballot system where the ballots are kept at the polling station in sight of everyone in the center of the room, and when the polls close, the pollwatchers (one from each party is always present) sit at a table and count the ballots together. They always know the outcome of every election within a couple of hours.
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We're used to seeing fancy features used in wealthy places like NYC and Paris in our renders and then getting cost engineered into a short box, but this...this looks like it might really happen. I feel like it takes us to a new level.
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2 hours ago, AronG said:
Yeah NYC is one of the lower crime cities (per capita) in the US.
I agree that the subway is somewhat of an embarrassment though. It's like one of the key ingredients that makes the city possible, and there's so much money and so many smart people there, but if you compare it to a city like London or Paris it's just bad in every possible way. It's dirty, but it's also less reliable, less safe (mechanically), less accessible, the technology is ancient and decrepit, there aren't enough stations, the trains don't run nearly often enough, and everything costs an order of magnitude more. I've read several analysis about why it is that way, and it's definitely a confluence of dysfunctional factors. I think at some level it boils down to the fact that, as a country, the evolution of our governance/contracting mechanisms and engineering pool has been focused on building world class road projects, with rail as a secondary focus. Until we really commit to investing in urban transportation the way the rest of the developed world does, we're gonna keep paying more than everybody else for second class results (https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2018/01/why-its-so-expensive-to-build-urban-rail-in-the-us/551408/).
All true, but my sense is that those factors seem to come together in NYC in the worst way. San Francisco for example has a pretty great transit system, and they've had to spend billions on BART doing things like replacing all the 50 year old electronics the system was designed around (no replacement parts available anymore), and replacing all the old cars which are now holding twice the number of peak time riders as they were designed for, and they just do it and don't make a fuss about it, all while building the extension to San Jose which has to cost a pretty penny as well. And they're talking about building a second tunnel across the bay--the current one carries twice as many people at rush hour as the Oakland Bay Bridge.
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Just now, smeagolsfree said:
Get rid of the plants and it might be fine but its hard to tell what the building looks like with all the ugly greenery.
You're so wrong. Needs more/bigger plants.
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39 minutes ago, Dale said:
It’s NYC. Welcome to the Third World.
Don't you mean welcome to the center of international capitalism? There are over 400,000 people in NYC with incomes over $1,000,000 per year. And about 1/2 the population lives at or near the poverty line. It's where we're all headed.
A big part of the subway's problem is that the city doesn't control it, it is entirely under control of the state government which doesn't care and only sees NYC as a source of revenue.
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2 hours ago, rjgo said:
Yeah and it's really ugly too. I live in the Gossett and am not too convinced this will feel as great as it looks in the renderings. The frontage on 12th avenue feels really dark and dingy under that elevated parking and the other side (where the rendering is showing a biergarten) is in a really dirty alley and doesn't feel as wide open as the rendering suggests. I'm hoping they prove me wrong and are able to clean up the surroundings of this building and make it feel great, but I wish they would just knock it down and build something much nicer.
They also have yet to start on the Pins Mechanical Bowling they have going in the warehouse across the alley. How long ago was that announced?
I really like that parking structure and enjoy driving under it so I'm glad they're keeping it. This area could have a nice gritty feel when all is done, although the 3rd render above looks like a strip mall.
Parts of Germantown are so sanitized now I'm starting to hate it.
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19 hours ago, nashvillwill said:
When exactly was commerce widened? I’ve forgot much more about “old Nashville” than I remember.
Bredesen did it. Not sure the exact dates.
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1 hour ago, AronG said:
I think they're just making proposals over and over trying to get people (especially the bar owners) to consider for a minute what we could have if we let go of a few of the car lanes for a few blocks. Working against the status quo's a b*tch though. In any other city lower Broadway would have 40 foot sidewalks with trees, sidewalk seating, etc. by now. If they ever get over the hump, everyone's going to love it, including the honky tonks.
This resistance to closing lanes is especially strange when you consider Lower Broad's not a road that connects anything to anything as it dead ends on 1st. Too bad there's no way to direct the traffic to Commerce which will always be too wide for a downtown street. Commerce should never have been widened, it has been dead since despite being between Broadway and Church, two incredibly active streets.
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The worst is, when you come in on 8th that ugly backside blocks what was once a lovely view of downtown.
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1 hour ago, markhollin said:
The historic Litterer Laboratories Building at 631 2nd Ave. South, which was originally built in 1895 and added onto in 1917, is going to become the home of Blythe-Templeton Academy. It is a co-ed college prep school based out of Washington DC. It will occupy about 19,000 sq. ft. of the 25,863 sq. ft., 4 story brick structure.
More at theNashville Post here:
https://www.nashvillepost.com/business/education/article/21028196/historic-downtown-building-eyed-for-private-school
This may be my favorite building in Nashville.
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Overnight, scooters bring a dose of reality to thinking on urban transportation. Now build some protected bike lanes!
While companies are still investing in the technology necessary for cars to drive on their own, a growing understanding has emerged that cities full of robot cars remain years away. Now, the technorati are looking to scooters and bike share companies as the way to change municipal transportation and reshape cities through “micro-mobility.”
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Dream Hotel (former Climax and Utopia) and Printers Alley Redevelopment
in Nashville
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^"The Nam" seems like an inauspicious name for a restaurant.