Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Cincinnati

How the Lure of Spending Keeps Dumb Highway Projects Alive

By Angie Schmitt | Mar 2, 2015 | 11 Comments

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 to build that highway today, that line can still seem like destiny. The Eastern Corridor began as a 1960s […]

Cincinnati’s Highway Revolt on the Verge of Victory

By Angie Schmitt | Feb 25, 2015 | 2 Comments

Could the end be near for the $1.4 billion Eastern Corridor highway project proposed for eastern Cincinnati? Language added to Ohio’s transportation budget, which is being debated right now, would specifically “prohibit [Ohio DOT] from funding the Eastern Corridor Project in Hamilton County.” The amendment was introduced by Republican state lawmaker Tom Brinkman, who represents an eastern portion […]

Cincinnati’s Eastern Corridor: The $1.4 Billion Road No One Seems to Want

By Angie Schmitt | Jan 27, 2015 | 27 Comments

The Eastern Corridor is an expensive state DOT highway project searching for a reason to exist. The $1.4 billion proposal from Ohio DOT is ostensibly intended to reduce commute times from Cincinnati’s far eastern bedroom communities to downtown. The project, a remnant of 1960s-era road planning, would create a commuter highway through the eastern Cincinnati region by widening […]

Who Will Preserve Our Nation’s Urban Parking Lots?

By Angie Schmitt | Jun 30, 2014 | 3 Comments

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. Kudos to the Cincinnati Preservation Collective for bravely defending the spaces that help make Cincinnati much like every other mid-sized city in […]

A Crosswalk Too Far: The Hunt for America’s Least Crossable Street

By Angie Schmitt | May 14, 2014 | 39 Comments

Last February, Streetsblog readers determined the worst intersection in America. Then you pinpointed a suburban area with streets so windy and disconnected, it would take a seven mile trip to travel between two houses that shared a back yard. And for two years running you’ve helped shame the nation’s most parking-scarred downtowns. But there’s a […]

Cincinnati Streetcar Foes Have New Target: Bike Lanes

By Angie Schmitt | Apr 17, 2014 | 2 Comments

Another big transportation showdown is brewing in Cincinnati. This time the fight isn’t over a streetcar — it’s about a protected bike lane. The Cincinnati Business Courier announced earlier this week that Mayor John Cranley had ordered city officials not to award a contract on the Central Parkway protected bike lane project, which was set […]

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