Lack of transit slows city
The Enquirer suggests spending millions to build plazas covering Fort Washington Way instead of the streetcar project, an alternative project for which the need is greater and the potential benefit is...
View ArticlePublic transportation is key
After reading the article about the CTC grant, I was bothered by the opinions that mass transportation does not add value to a community. The statements seem to imply that riding the bus is free when...
View ArticleAdding lanes is no solution
I had to laugh at the Ohio Department of Transportation’s statement that when work on I-75 is finished, “drivers can expect lighter traffic and a safer interstate.” Who are they trying to kid? Without...
View ArticleLooking forward to riding the streetcar
Boondoggle: A wasteful or impractical project or activity often involving graft. This seems to be the word of choice by the anti-streetcar crowd (“Signs posted at 16 potential streetcar stops”). Their...
View ArticleUse common sense when riding public bus
Public transportation is a great tool to utilize, but when riding a public bus, please keep these few things in mind. Allow everyone trying to leave the bus to exit before you board. When there is...
View ArticleStreetcar poses many costly problems
Some type of public transportation around downtown Cincinnati is a great idea, but the streetcar system on rails appears to create many problems. Just the cost to relocate all the underground...
View ArticleNew span unneeded
Individuals and news organizations paint the Brent Spence Bridge to be under imminent danger of collapsing. The Enquirer said “The 48-year-old bridge is structurally obsolete, increasingly unsafe, and...
View ArticleTake care when driving
Public transportation is a great tool for community members to utilize, but when sharing the roads with a public bus, please keep these few things in mind. Remember that a Metro bus will be making...
View ArticleUnderstanding urban transportation
Enough said already by those groups who seem to oppose any and all investment initiatives and by those who see only through the prism of their personal short term interests! Where are the voices of...
View ArticleDone properly, public transportation is a huge draw
In the league of major U.S. cities, Cincinnati is trying to play major league on a minor league budget. Last month, my wife and I visited family members in San Francisco. We spent a week there. The...
View ArticleHousing for the millennial middle class as an OTR repopulation strategy
The post-riot revitalization of OTR has no doubt been led by Generations X and Y. City Hall is also clearly vested with huge capital improvements and 3CDC is slowly rehabbing a housing stock that was...
View ArticleStreetcar ‘battle’ is embarrassing
The streetcar has been overblown, and I mean from both sides. On the pro-streetcar side, the rhetoric is as if there’s no hope for Over-the-Rhine without the streetcar. It’s being used as an excuse. In...
View ArticleKeep the idea of a streetcar alive
Our future mayor proclaimed: “The streetcar is dead.” Sell the trains and rails! But please, Your Honor, keep our idea. The streetcar became a thing and we lost our idea. Our idea was creating public...
View ArticleOld-timers recognize value of the streetcar
I support the streetcar as what I hope is the first step in a stronger and more comprehensive public transportation system. Monday in the BLOC Coffee Shop I overheard two Price Hill old-timers talking...
View ArticleDownsizing auto usage equates to more disposable income
In times when it seems that every city, state and federal government are experiencing tight budgets and monetary constraints, households and families are running tight budgets as well. Families are...
View ArticleAutomobiles will always trump public transit
After weeks of non-stop coverage of the Cincinnati street car project debacle by every local news outlet (including the Enquirer ), I feel some logic must be inserted into the discussion regarding the...
View ArticleFuture generations will want alternatives to cars
I am a Cincinnati expat who graduated from the University Of Cincinnati in 2001 and moved to Philadelphia in 2002, where I still reside. I have lived here car-free ever since thanks to public...
View ArticleCity’s public transit is unreliable
Our last two snow/bitter cold weather events under score why public transit does not really work in Cincinnati. My son stood out in the bad weather waiting for a bus that did not come, to go to...
View ArticleUntil city gets finances in order, public transit will suffer
I agree that Cincinnati has terrible public transportation. In my opinion, this city has always been short-sighted concerning rapid transit systems; we defeated light rail from Blue Ash to the airport...
View ArticleWhere is concern for taxpayers?
Dusty Rhodes must be a racist, homophobic and just plain stupid. He sounds like a tea partier. Or is it that he concerned at the direction the city, county and country are headed too much unfunded...
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