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Transportation

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By air, land and sea, Cincinnatians are connected to the world through CVG International airport, and new daily flights from Lunken Airport on the east side. METRO and TANK provide the wheeled service that connects the Greater Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky region together, but it's a long anticipated ground-breaking for a streetcar route that will bridge the Banks development, downtown, Over-the-Rhine, and Uptown that has Cincinnatians really talking public transport. Non-motorized transportation is making waves too, with a bicycle master plan that includes sharrows and cycling racks in neighborhoods.

Transportation Features

Soapdish: On the right track

Last Friday bore witness to one of the most momentous groundbreakings in the modern history of Cincinnati. As an enervated and enthusiastic crowd looked on, Mayor Mallory, U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood and other assorted city dignitaries modeled their commemorative, gold spray-painted shovels and ill-fitting hardhats for the assembled media, all in a prelude to the groundbreaking ceremony for the Cincinnati streetcar.

My Soapbox: Jack Heekin, co-founder, Unplugged

A bicycle built for 15 hits the streets of downtown Cincinnati next month -- Soapbox gets the scoop from Pedal Wagon pusher and Unplugged co-founder Jack Heekin.

Soapdish: The little streetcar that could

“When is construction going to start?” “When can I ride it?” “What’s happening?” Since the defeat of the anti-streetcar initiative last November, there are more questions than answers about the city's oft-embattled transportation project. Soapbox's Casey Coston sorts out the answers.

2011: the year in Soapbox

With a new year upon us, we take a look back at our most read stories of 2011. From the prospective new life of the Emery Theatre to the opening of A Tavola to the controversial story of the Anna Louise Inn lawsuit, here are the 12 Soapbox stories you read the most last year.

Get on the bus: art abounds on urban route

The smaller buses that traverse the streets of Mt. Adams, downtown and the West End offer more than colorful exteriors and a route guaranteed to please museum-goers and downtown workers alike. Route #1 helps re-define Cincinnati's bus commuting scene with a sitting-room setting and a cast of friendly regulars. Soapbox's Jane Durrell takes a ride.
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Transportation Blogs

J. Thomas Hodges

Tom Hodges, a local attorney and Over-the-Rhine resident, recently became one of the youngest board members of SORTA, the regional transit authority that operates Metro. An advocate for improved public transportation, Hodges shares his thoughts in this week's blogs on where he thinks transportation dollars might best be spent, and gives us a first-hand account of his recent SORTA 'field trip' through southwestern Ohio.
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Transportation Videos

The Bright Ride

If you didn't catch this on downtown streets last month, here's your chance to revive some holiday cheer. Cincinnati cyclists don their sparkliest sparkles for a ride to remember. Video courtesy ArtsWave.

ARTeries

Imagine a series of public art 'links' that run the length of 12th Street in Over-the-Rhine's arts district. That's just what ARTeries proposes to do by using public art to link the new Washington Park, arts venues, and cultural clusters on Vine and Main Streets.

Take A Ride

Soapbox and photojournalist Jeremy Mosher take you along for a ride on Portland, Oregon's Streetcar, introducing the people who use the city's popular public transit system and allowing viewers to experience first-hand the role it has played in the city's re-imagining of its urban core.
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