Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Cincinnati

Talking Headways Podcast: Hug This Streetcar

By Tanya Snyder | Feb 20, 2014 | 17 Comments

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 grabbed the long-elusive gold ring. Then Randy stayed with us to discuss the false choice between transit that’s useful and transit […]

Cincinnati Will Complete Its Streetcar

By Angie Schmitt | Dec 19, 2013 | 25 Comments

“We’re gonna have a streetcar.” That was the announcement, met with cheers, from Cincinnati Mayor John Cranley this afternoon. With an active proposal in the City Council to resume construction on the streetcar, Cranley said he “would not sign the legislation because” he “thinks it’s wrong.” But he was flanked by Council Member Kevin Flynn, […]

Cincinnati Mayor Offers Last-Minute Plan to Save the Streetcar

By Angie Schmitt | Dec 12, 2013 | 6 Comments

Cincinnati Mayor John Cranley, who campaigned on the idea of killing the city’s under-construction streetcar, announced today he will allow the project to continue if operating costs can be funded through fares, advertising and private donations for the first 30 years. That’s the report from the Cincinnati Business Courier following the mayor’s big announcement this […]

Talking Headways Podcast: Get Off My Lawn

By Tanya Snyder | Dec 12, 2013 | 3 Comments

Jeff Wood and I talk about the news of the week that most tickled us or burned us — the BBC’s exposé of anti-social urban design features intended to repel people, San Francisco’s social tensions over the Google bus, and the decision by Cincinnati’s new mayor and City Council to “pause” construction of the streetcar. […]

It Could Cost More to Shut Down Cincy Streetcar Than Finish It

By Tanya Snyder | Nov 21, 2013 | 10 Comments

Cincinnati Mayor Mark Mallory is frustrated that all his work to bring the streetcar to fruition might be for naught, now that anti-streetcar John Cranley has been elected to take his place. “I’m from the tough part of town,” Mallory joked. “I will take the guy in a dark alley. I’m not afraid to use […]

Construction Continues on Cincy Streetcar, Mayor-Elect Still Wants It Stopped

By Angie Schmitt | Nov 7, 2013 | 19 Comments

Two days after Cincinnati voters elected anti-streetcar candidate John Cranley mayor, construction continues on the city’s partially-built streetcar system. Cranley called on the City Council to halt construction on the project Wednesday. A majority of the current council favors the streetcar, but that will change in a few weeks, when Cranley and the new council members are […]

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