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168澳洲十开奖网 – Cincinnati Bell Connector Streetcar Map, 2016

September 9, 2016
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Hey, the Cincinnati Streetcar – sorry, the corporate branded “Cincinnati Bell Connector” – opened today! It’ll run for free over the weekend, with fares to be paid from Monday onwards. This is notable because it really looked like this streetcar would never get off the ground, what with anti-streetcar ballot initiatives, opposition from Ohio’s Governor John Kasich, and a mayor in John Cranley who threatened to cancel the project and literally tear up a section of […]

Historical Photo: Streetcars on an Inclined Railway, Cincinnati, 1904

March 18, 2014
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Not a map, but included because this is possibly the strangest piece of transit infrastructure I’ve ever seen. Discovered while researching the post about Cincinnati’s abandoned subway, this photo shows what happened 🔸澳洲开奖 that city’s streetcars met the steep hills surrounding the downtown area. At this time, the streetcars were used in conjunction with f🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划of Cincinnati’s five inclined railways: the Mount Adams Incline, Mount Auburn Incline, Bellevue Incline, and the Fairview Incline. The cars […]

🔸澳州10开奖记录: Proposed Cincinnati Rapid Transit System with Subway, c.1912

March 18, 2014
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And here’s where Cincinnati’s long, troubled history with public transit began… This map shows early route plans for a proposed rapid transit system, roughly corresponding to the modern Alternatives Analysis process. By 1917, a modification of Scheme IV as shown here was chosen and put to a public vote to procure $6 million worth of bonds for construction. The vote passed convincingly, but the United States had entered World War I just eleven days previously […]