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City budgets and your calls · Chuck Douglas

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  Speaker 1: Jack Douglas in the Power Hour.
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  Speaker 2: This is six to ten WTV and my number eight
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  Speaker 2: two one nine eight eight six eight two one WTV
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  Speaker 2: and the city's budget just it has me worried. That's
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  Speaker 2: a lot of money. It's a long commitment for for
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  Speaker 2: you know, potentially outgoing mayor. We've still got a full
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  Speaker 2: year of his plan if this has passed, what council
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  Speaker 2: has passed it, if he does not win in November
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  Speaker 2: of twenty seven, and that's not a likely occurrence, quite frankly,
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  Speaker 2: because Franklin County GOP, it's are they still check and
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  Speaker 2: see a look online, see if they're still open. They
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  Speaker 2: may be close, you know, running unopposed. There's a pretty
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  Speaker 2: good chance he becomes mayor again. But just in the
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  Speaker 2: unlikely event he doesn't, we still have a year a
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  Speaker 2: billion dollars left to.
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  Speaker 1: Spend on his game plan.
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  Speaker 2: Of this budget, eight million dollars being used to improve
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  Speaker 2: these dangerous intersections that are always on the list every
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  Speaker 2: blasted year, the same intersections, it seems, are on the
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  Speaker 2: list or of majority.
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  Speaker 1: I want to know what.
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  Speaker 2: They're going to do, because I've seen what they do
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  Speaker 2: in the name of traffic calming and safety.
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  Speaker 1: And it's largely stupid, as.
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  Speaker 2: Was by the way, that ridiculous graffiti bridge.
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  Speaker 1: That's another Prince reference, isn't it.
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  Speaker 2: That ridiculous graffiti bridge over there at seventy and Solvent
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  Speaker 2: Avenue between Franklinton and the Hilltop.
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  Speaker 1: It's just stu.
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  Speaker 2: You're going down there, especially at night, and it's got
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  Speaker 2: these glowing color changing led light tubes and all this
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  Speaker 2: Multicut look like a damn spaceship is landed on the
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  Speaker 2: road in front of you. I have no idea what
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  Speaker 2: that was supposed to accomplish, except to call attention to
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  Speaker 2: the fact that look at everything around this bridge and
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  Speaker 2: notice what crappy condition it's in. That's how the city
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  Speaker 2: spends money. Man doesn't work for me. Maybe I'm just
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  Speaker 2: an old curmudget. I don't know A two nine eight
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  Speaker 2: eight six eight two n WTV and John, you're on
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  Speaker 2: six to ten doua.
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  Speaker 3: ETVN Hey, Chuck, how you doing?
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  Speaker 1: Grousey, grumpy and gripie, how are you?
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  Speaker 3: I'm great, and I'm glad to hear your grumpy, grouchy
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  Speaker 3: and all that good stuff.
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  Speaker 1: You're great. At least you got the phonetics right.
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  Speaker 3: I'm glad to hear that absolutely what I needed from you.
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  Speaker 3: Run Run, run, I.
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  Speaker 1: Don't run from anything, man, I face everything.
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  Speaker 3: No, run for office.
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  Speaker 1: No, I don't want to leave the air.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I don't want you to leave the area either.
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  Speaker 3: You can do both. Apparently, Dumper or Ginster or whatever
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  Speaker 3: the hell you want to call him can do whatever
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  Speaker 3: he wants to do, so I'm sure.
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  Speaker 1: You can not as a candidate.
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  Speaker 2: If I were to announced myself as a candidate for
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  Speaker 2: a public office, I would have to remove myself from
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  Speaker 2: the air until after the election.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't.
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  Speaker 2: I've got more to accomplish this way than I ever could.
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  Speaker 2: You know, people say, first of all, why don't you
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  Speaker 2: remember of city, your council. Okay, now there's nine people
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  Speaker 2: down there, eight of them going to disagree with everything
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  Speaker 2: I say. So that's pointless. You know, running for mayor
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  Speaker 2: that trust me, that machine. They will spend millions upon
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  Speaker 2: millions of millions of dollars to make sure the Democrats
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  Speaker 2: do not lose that seat. Like a mayor of a
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  Speaker 2: conservative mayor or a Republican mayor with an all Democrat council,
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  Speaker 2: all you're going to get is an uphill battle for
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  Speaker 2: four years. You'll get nothing accomplished. You'll go down in
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  Speaker 2: flames looking like a terrible mayor nil until the county
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  Speaker 2: party can get a slate of people out there to run.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, if there's four council seats coming up, we
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  Speaker 2: need eight people in the primaries. Man, we we've got
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  Speaker 2: to go after and capture a lot of stuff all
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  Speaker 2: at once, because one piece of a time is just
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  Speaker 2: like throwing a piece of steak in a Piranha pool.
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  Speaker 3: Right, I agree, one hundred percent. But also I wanted
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  Speaker 3: to touch base real quick too with the uh the
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  Speaker 3: gentleman that uh, well, the man that walked into the
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  Speaker 3: building and shot everybody up. I'm getting tired of hearing
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  Speaker 3: people saying we think he was, we think he was.
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  Speaker 3: You have no idea what he was thinking. He had
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  Speaker 3: scrambled eggs for brains.
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  Speaker 2: Well, come on, Ceenn thought he was possibly a white guy.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I'm looking at Lenny Kravitz carrying an AR fifteen.
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  Speaker 2: They thought it was a white guy. I don't get it, right.
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  Speaker 3: I I'm so tired of it. I'm tired. And Columbus
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  Speaker 3: City Schools absolutely get rid of the buses.
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  Speaker 4: What don't we have schools for?
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  Speaker 3: There's nothing more than babysitters. The graduation rate is horrible.
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  Speaker 2: Well, and kids going to their neighborhood schools. First of all,
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  Speaker 2: it's more convenient for the family because you don't have
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  Speaker 2: to get your kid up to catch a bus an
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  Speaker 2: hour and a half before the school day starts. Because
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  Speaker 2: they're walking down the street to the neighborhood school. I
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  Speaker 2: think they're more productive because they are in their neighborhood
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  Speaker 2: school where they live, where the neighbors know them.
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  Speaker 1: They say, hey, little belly ride nearby.
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  Speaker 2: They called, They know who you are, and they will
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  Speaker 2: tell your mama if you're acting like a fool on
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  Speaker 2: the school yard that there's an advantage. There's a social
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  Speaker 2: advantage as well as an economic advantage advantage to having
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  Speaker 2: the kid walk down the street to their school instead
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  Speaker 2: of having to catch a bus in the dark and
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  Speaker 2: crappy weather after crossing a road with a bunch of
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  Speaker 2: traffic to go to a school.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely, well, Chuck, you keep doing what you do and
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  Speaker 3: you are fantastic and keep doing it.
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  Speaker 2: I appreciate you, John, thanks very much for the call
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  Speaker 2: A two one nine eight eighty six A two y
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  Speaker 2: W TV.
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  Speaker 1: And you know I'm not trying to be outrageous. I
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  Speaker 1: don't say stuff to be outrageous.
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  Speaker 2: I say everything basically to be sensible, because I just
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  Speaker 2: I look at the world around me and I say, you.
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  Speaker 1: Know, this doesn't make any sense.
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  Speaker 2: We spend way too much time doing way too many
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  Speaker 2: things that make no sense. When we started the show
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  Speaker 2: to the Blazer Show today, what's the first thing? I
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  Speaker 2: was talking about? The breasticles and what's her face? Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: And the fact that with all of the crap going on,
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  Speaker 2: whether you want to talk about Gaza and Israel, whether
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  Speaker 2: you want to about Ukraine and Pootin, whether you want
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  Speaker 2: to talk about tariffs and Trump and Scotland, whether you
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  Speaker 2: want to talk about people trying to beat the hell
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  Speaker 2: out of each other in the streets of Cincinnati, the shooter.
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  Speaker 1: In New York City.
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  Speaker 2: We have real serious stuff that we can actually concentrate on,
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  Speaker 2: talk about and maybe maybe at do something about. But
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  Speaker 2: some actresses, actress in her cleavage. Really that's what's captivating America?
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  Speaker 1: Or the who was it?
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  Speaker 2: Was it Jessica Simpson I was talking about yesterday. They
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  Speaker 2: were all upset because she apparently she had a little
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  Speaker 2: bladder problem performing on the Today Show and that's news.
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  Speaker 2: We waste our time talking about the most ridiculous things.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not saying everything has to be serious. It's fine
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  Speaker 2: to be a little frivolous with your conversation and have
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  Speaker 2: fun and find smiles perhaps where you don't expect to
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  Speaker 2: find them.
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  Speaker 1: That's good, that's wonderful. We need those moments.
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  Speaker 2: But when we do talk about things that we consider
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  Speaker 2: to be serious or want to be serious, or or
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  Speaker 2: you know, intimate that they are serious, when we're talking
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  Speaker 2: about them and they're stupid things like that, and I
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  Speaker 2: just I don't know, I feel like it's a waste
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  Speaker 2: of life. You do not get life back. There's no
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  Speaker 2: such thing as time. Time is just the way you
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  Speaker 2: measure life. And if you have wasted time, you have
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  Speaker 2: wasted life.
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  Speaker 1: It's that simple. I'm such a philosophical formerly fat.
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  Speaker 2: Man eight two one, nine eighty six and Steve, you're
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  Speaker 2: on six to ten dovel the EU TV in height.
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  Speaker 4: Hi Chuck, thank you. H Yeah. I really don't like
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  Speaker 4: much of what they're doing around the roads these days anyway,
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  Speaker 4: except for maybe roundabouse. That's about it. I mean, well,
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  Speaker 4: just a couple of examples, like just today, I'm coming
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  Speaker 4: uh what what is that to seventy west? I believe
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  Speaker 4: coming back by High Street and you used to be
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  Speaker 4: able to get off the High Street and go north there.
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  Speaker 4: They've had that closed off forever.
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  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, because the angle of that ramp, every time
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  Speaker 2: it rained hard would flood out, and they had all
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  Speaker 2: kinds of problems down there. But I thought by now
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  Speaker 2: they would have changed the U, they would have changed
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  Speaker 2: the incline a bit so people could get off there,
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  Speaker 2: and they still haven't.
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  Speaker 4: If you look the ramp is it's it looks like
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  Speaker 4: it's ready to go to me. I don't know. It's
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  Speaker 4: been like that for six months. It seems like I don't.
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  Speaker 2: Know the other side, the other side of two seventy
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  Speaker 2: when you're headed eastbound and you try to get off
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  Speaker 2: on the two seventy north, that needs to be fixed.
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  Speaker 2: That curve is way too sharp and people are way
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  Speaker 2: too stupid, and there's constantly a vehicle flying off of there.
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  Speaker 4: I would agree with that. I've seen cars over there
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  Speaker 4: throughout my life. You're right, You're right about that. You
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  Speaker 4: know right here in Grove City, right there at Grove
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  Speaker 4: City at two seventy. You remember how you used to
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  Speaker 4: be able to get off and you're going to go
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  Speaker 4: what would be I guess north on sixty two, right,
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  Speaker 4: And so there used to be a continuous ramp. You
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  Speaker 4: didn't have to stop at the light at all. Right,
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  Speaker 4: it was like a merging lane. That was so nice.
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  Speaker 4: And so now you've got to stop at a red
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  Speaker 4: light and it's a no turn on.
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  Speaker 2: Rent And there's absolutely no chance that Turkey Hill and
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  Speaker 2: Sheets paid to have that happen.
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  Speaker 1: So you had to sit at the light and notice
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  Speaker 1: their stores over there.
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  Speaker 2: No chance that was right exactly.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, we figured that out a long time ago about
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  Speaker 4: a lot of places around Columbus. They do that everywhere,
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  Speaker 4: but overall there's construction everywhere.
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  Speaker 1: Out of nowhere.
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  Speaker 2: Steve, it was like, okay, no construction, and then boom,
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  Speaker 2: suddenly there's orange barrels and busted up railroad tracks everywhere
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  Speaker 2: I'm going.
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  Speaker 4: I totally agree. It's kind of annoy Yeah, it really is.
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  Speaker 4: Especially I drive a lot, like you you know, I
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  Speaker 4: drive a whole lot. I drive for a living basically,
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  Speaker 4: you know, I mean, I'm everywhere, so especially in Columbus,
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  Speaker 4: and I just it's just crazy.
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  Speaker 2: The railroad track thing right now, because I've been graping
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  Speaker 2: about that, and I'm wondering if this does this have
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  Speaker 2: anything to do with this ridiculous notion we're going to
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  Speaker 2: get passenger rail in Ohio. I just all suddenly every
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  Speaker 2: intersection where there's railroad tracks on my beloved West Side
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  Speaker 2: is under construction. They're putting down new railroad ties and
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  Speaker 2: new pavement as it crosses the intersection. And I'm not
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  Speaker 2: sure if that's what it's for or not, but it
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  Speaker 2: just it's odd that it's happening everywhere right now.
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  Speaker 1: At the same time.
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  Speaker 4: Down there by on Mound Street by three c there,
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  Speaker 4: them tracks were in bad shape. They had they were
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  Speaker 4: popping up everywhere, So I agree with you it could
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  Speaker 4: be because they were trying to push that. I haven't
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  Speaker 4: heard that yet either, so I should know. I'd hear
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  Speaker 4: that from you first.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know that's how my head works, Steve. I
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  Speaker 2: got to run here, buddy. I got someone another call
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  Speaker 2: from Jim. I want to get down before we say
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  Speaker 2: goodbye for the night. Jim, you were on six WTVN.
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  Speaker 5: Hi, Chuck, you just named the topic I was going
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  Speaker 5: to call about, regarding the traffic calming. I believe that's
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  Speaker 5: basically a strategy by the city to get the voters
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  Speaker 5: to want the light rail system put in.
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  Speaker 2: You know, that's an interesting concept, Jim, That is an
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  Speaker 2: interesting concept. I hadn't thought about that, but you manipulation.
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  Speaker 5: Is if you can remember seventy one when they widened
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  Speaker 5: the seven seventy one North some years ago, after the
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  Speaker 5: project was finally done, the city went in and they
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  Speaker 5: narrowed what summit and forth. Yes, the one way streets
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  Speaker 5: in and out of downtown parallel to seventy one. They
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  Speaker 5: narrowed them and calmed the tra traffic.
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  Speaker 2: Man put the bike lanes in and the concrete barrier
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  Speaker 2: between the bike lane and the moving traff in.
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  Speaker 5: I think the object was to put the traffic back
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  Speaker 5: onto I seventy one, and then it becomes less convenient again,
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  Speaker 5: and they can just say, see, it didn't solve anything.
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  Speaker 5: We need light rail.
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  Speaker 2: Jim Genius called great way to end the show. I
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  Speaker 2: appreciate you