After counting more than 600 votes, the City of Cincinnati has announced the top five winning locations for scooter and motorcyle parking in the downtown area.
The winning locations include:
- Sycamore Street, between 4th and 5th streets
- Walnut Street, between 5th and 6th streets
- Broadway, between 6th and New streets
- Eighth Street at Vine Street
- Seventh Street at Sycamore
The pilot program will begin with free parking until spring, when it will be evaluated.
"Making downtown greener and more user-friendly is very exciting and adds an important element in meeting the needs of our residents, visitors and office workers," says city manager Milton Dohoney Jr. "We will evaluate the pilot program to make improvements as we consider where else in the City we can implement two-wheeler parking."
Recently, CNNMoney.com reported that scooter sales for the first half of 2008 are up 66 percent over the first half of 2007.
Also last week, Vice Mayor David Crowley proposed a sticker program that would allow drivers of certified electric cars to park for free in city-owned garages and parking spaces.
Both projects are recommendations of the Green Cincinnati initiative, a list of 80 short-, medium-, and long-term recommendations designed to reduce the city’s greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent over the next 20 years.
Writer: Kevin LeMaster
Source: City of Cincinnati
Photography by Scott Beseler
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