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Talking Headways Podcast: Hug This Streetcar
Jeff Wood of the Overhead Wire (now working with NRDC’s crack transportation team) and I talk to Randy Simes in this week’s podcast about the streetcar movement in Cincinnati — and how they finally...
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Cincinnati Streetcar Foes Have New Target: Bike Lanes
The bike lane that Mayor John Cranley wants to “pause.” Image: City of Cincinnati Another big transportation showdown is brewing in Cincinnati. This time the fight isn’t over a streetcar — it’s about a...
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A Crosswalk Too Far: The Hunt for America’s Least Crossable Street
Good luck walking to church on North Military Trail in West Palm Beach, if you happen to start on the other side of the street. Last February, Streetsblog readers determined the worst intersection in...
View ArticleWho Will Preserve Our Nation’s Urban Parking Lots?
A historic preservation group in Cincinnati put together the above video, meant to make us think critically about some of the most fiercely guarded yet least loved places in our cities: parking lots....
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Cincinnati’s Eastern Corridor: The $1.4 Billion Road No One Seems to Want
The Eastern Corridor is an expensive state DOT highway project searching for a reason to exist. The highway plan would reroute SR 32 through Mariemont’s South 80 Park, named for its 80-acre size....
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Cincinnati’s Highway Revolt on the Verge of Victory
Ohio State Rep. Tom Brinkman, a Republican who believes in lower taxes, is taking a principled stance against a wasteful highway project. Photo: Wikipedia Could the end be near for the $1.4 billion...
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How the Lure of Spending Keeps Dumb Highway Projects Alive
Decades ago, Ohio officials drew a line on a map — the Eastern Corridor, a highway for commuters living in Cincinnati’s eastern suburbs. No matter how much time has passed and how little sense it makes...
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Ohio DOT Cedes Ground in Its Sneaky Highway Expansion Campaign
The relocation of State Route 32 would have set the stage for sprawling development in Cincinnati’s eastern suburbs. Image: Urban Cincy Opponents of a $1.4 billion highway expansion project outside...
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Cincinnati Will Complete Its Streetcar
“We’re gonna have a streetcar.” That was the announcement, met with cheers, from Cincinnati Mayor John Cranley this afternoon. Streetcar supporters rallying last month. Photo: UrbanCincy With an active...
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Frustrated Cincinnati Bus Riders Take Transit Funding Into Their Own Hands
Relying on the bus in Cincinnati has never been easy. To prevent it from getting even tougher, local transit riders are taking matters into their own hands. The regional transit agency, SORTA, is...
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Sorry Bus Stops Round 1: Cincinnati vs. Ann Arbor
We’ve got more terrible bus stops coming your way today, as we kick off the second matchup in this year’s Sorry Bus Stops competition. Sixteen finalists have been selected from a field of more than 50,...
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“Sorry Bus Stops” Contest Enters the Final Four: New Orleans vs. Cincinnati
After weeks of sorting through some of America’s saddest, most degrading and dangerous bus stops: There are just four sorry stops left standing. Today we’re kicking off the Final Four by matching up...
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Streetsblog Gets Action! Cincy Fixes “Sorry” Bus Stop
Talk about an October surprise! Just as readers are energetically casting their ballots in the last round of our annual “Sorriest Bus Stops” contest, the Cincinnati-area transit agency overseeing one...
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Cincy Cuts Parking to Make Core More Walkable
The Cincinnati City Council overwhelmingly voted to eliminate mandatory parking requirements in three dense downtown neighborhoods, dispensing with one the biggest hidden subsidies for driving and...
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Cincinnati Bus Riders Finally Get A Lane of their Own
They’re no longer exiles on Main Street. Bus riders in Cincinnati finally have a place of their own as the Queen City kicked off a six-month dedicated lane pilot project. During rush hour for two hours...
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Meet the Cincinnati Wheelchair User Struck Three Times by Drivers
Neil Kelly is just trying to get to work. During a 10-month period, the social services worker, partially paralyzed since birth, been struck by drivers on three occasions trying to reach his downtown...
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Ohio’s Poor Face Nightmarish Commutes
Being poor anywhere is hard — but in Ohio, a lack of transit forces families to choose between housing they can’t afford and long, exhausting commutes keeping them from their loved ones, a new study...
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ELECTION ROUNDUP: Transit (Mostly) Wins
It was a good night for transit in much of the country as voters overwhelmingly approved scores of transportation-related initiatives that were on the ballot on Tuesday. The public will have to wait...
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Rail-y Big Deal: Ohio Man Maps The Future
Sponsored post: The Transportation Research Board’s 99th Annual Meeting will be held in Washington, D.C. from Jan. 12-16, 2020. Click here for more information. He has seen the future — and it is...
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Bus Rapid Transit Should Be Built More Rapidly
The Transportation Research Board’s 99th Annual Meeting will be held in Washington, D.C. from Jan. 12-16, 2020. Click here for more information. Cities are taking the slow and challenging path to build...
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