Columbus, Ohio
Summary
Changelog
- 🗓️/2025/03/06 Dinner with Chase Team in “The Short North” as mentioned in Walkable City
- Ironically, as described, I stayed in a hotel & ate at a restaurant before having realized it. I had no idea there was an interstate below me. It wasn’t until a day or two later talking with Kolt that we drove under it on the interstate.
- The Mention
- This was precisely the scenario in Columbus, Ohio, where the city’s convention center and arena were cut off from the gritty Short North neighborhood by a below-grade interstate highway, reamed through in the sixties. Getting from one side to the other meant crossing a barren, windswept bridge, complete with chain-link suicide screen. When it became necessary in 2003 to reconstruct this bridge, the city and state did an unusually smart thing. Instead of building a one-hundred-foot-wide bridge, they built a two-hundred-foot-wide bridge, creating two retail pads on its flanks. They gave these pads to an enlightened developer, who built a modern-day Ponte Vecchio, lining the sidewalks with shops and restaurants. For an additional public cost of $1.9 million, this novel bridge performed an act of magic: it made a highway disappear. Now conventioneers regularly visit the Short North, and the difference to businesses there is described as “night and day.” Two walkable districts have been unified into one, and an entire sector of the city has changed its character. (Location 3356)
- 🗓️/2023/05/15 Visited Kolt, Jackie, Kayleigh & Kody w/ Ellie
- Google Photo Album
- Visited COSI (Science Museum) & the Zoo
- Biked w/ Ellie down the Olentangy River Trail
Resources
Action Items
- Visit “The Short North” neighborhood as mentioned in Walkable City
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Public Transit
While in Columbus for work, I took Public Transit (a bus) twice using COTA
- Airport → Downtown on the 7
- Downtown → Upper Arlington