Right - but that improved traction benefit is minimal in most of the locations I’m talking about, especially considering the high cost. Seems like most of the country is either in a “no way we need them” zone, a “only very rarely would we need them”, or “hell yes, we need them” zone.

I’ve never bought them myself, but…

That wouldn’t have affected people last night, though...

Call me when they put down 2 inches of salt for every inch of snow like they do in my lot. :)

It’s a miracle my last two cars are still on the road at 19 and 18 years old, respectively, after I subjected them to these lots.

Very few people in the US seem to know about snow tires.

In defense of some, they are a waste in many areas of the country. Here in Cincinnati, we get a fair amount of snow, but generally the roads are only bad for a few hours each time it snows. After a day, its rare that the streets aren’t nearly perfectly clear. I’d…

And how many of these fools wish they had done the sensible thing and just taken mass transit?

Hell, Detroit has had a no-plow rule for side streets for decades. Doesn’t matter how much snow, they won’t touch it.

Yep - that’s why I said they’re nice for those of us who rarely have to back up a trailer.

I still have nightmares sometimes from the time I had to push a Uhaul trailer a quarter mile back down a narrow dead-end street lined with cars (only one lane open) and no place I could turn around... even fundamentally knowing…

While we all know the VW video is fake, these trailer assist programs are actually pretty darned nice for those of us who rarely have to push a trailer backwards...

What’s truly pathetic are the right wing arguments that Russia is doing more against ISIS than the US. Virtually none of the Russian airstrikes have come in regions under ISIS control. The US still represents the overwhelming majority of all airstrikes against ISIS positions.

I really liked this bike rider.

Until I saw him riding like an idiot on the road...

So you fund a system to provide minimal service, then when a minimal number of people ride it, you claim that you have to shrink service because you aren’t getting revenue because no one wants to ride it.

Sorry, but this IS very similar to “if you build it, they will come” - IF you provide a service of a critical…

My first thought was “none”... cars aren’t investments.

On second thought, if you can find a car that runs for about $400-500, your odds might be decent. There’s a bottom value for just about any car that runs, and that’s about it. Why? Because it’s basically scrap value. Odds are pretty good that you’ll be able to…

Right - the streetcar is completely separate from the problem of mass transit in this area run by SORTA, the actual transit authority - and while they have been improving their fleet, they’ve been shrinking service because they’re underfunded.

The Metro Moves campaign looked to dramatically increase funding and improve…

The streetcar wasn’t the brainchild of the SORTA board.

It is inefficient because people want it to fail. How hard is it to understand that this is what happens when the directors of the actual transit organization are opposed to mass transit and strangle its funding? It leaves the system struggling to fund routes and far from achieving the critical mass it needs to…

You’re missing the point - the entire proposed system design would have included Metro realigning virtually all of its bus service to provide cross-town routes and connections to the light rail. We’re not talking about an additional service with no changes to what was offered already - we’re talking a complete system…

The abandoned rail lines and existing usable rights of way follow I-71 and I-75 and the Norwood lateral. How is that not going where people live?

No - the solution is to tax people LESS - by building a transportation infrastructure that costs significantly LESS than continuing to expand roads.

And again, you’re missing…

The cost estimates were almost identical to what it will cost to replace Brent Spence. When you use existing right of ways and abandoned lines, the cost is much lower. Cincinnati is spread out, but also with pretty consistent traffic patterns and very heavily trafficked corridors. You provide frequent convient transit…

And that freight can be moved more efficiently in other manners. We have an overdependence on road transit for freight because it is massively subsidized, a benefit not given to other methods of transport.

Mass transit does receive subsidies. No doubt about it. But it remains FAR more efficient on a per seat mile basis…

Functionally obsolete is not the same as structurally deficient.

The concrete that has fallen was from a much newer section of the ramps approaching the bridge - hardly an indicator of the overall bridge condition.

As for taxes, yes, we pay gas taxes. But those taxes barely add up to HALF of what this country spends on…