"There’s a strong demand for short-distance corridor trains in the United States to provide that transportation option for travelers that don’t want to drive or fly.”
This gorgeous station in Cincinnati used to see 216 trains per day. Today? It sees 6 per week. We used to be a proper country with the best rail system in the world, and there’s no reason we can’t get some of that back.
Dems ran on their redistricting whining cycle after cycle, Ohioans didn’t care, & locked them out of the Apportionment Board by *statewide* vote 3 cycles in a row. The only people in Ohio following this are ultra online Democrats & the 12 political reporters who cover them.
Millions and millions of dollars continue to go to Wasson Way, which is on the east side of Cincinnati. Meanwhile the Mill Creek trail, which connects black and brown neighborhoods west of I-75, has been like this for at least two, probably three, years now.
Latest results in
#OH01
Landsman: 140,649
Chabot: 133,259
The only remaining precincts without Election Day totals are in the city of Cincinnati and Springfield Township.
This race is over. It is Congressman-elect Greg Landsman.
So Chabot, Massie, Wenstrup and Davidson vote against the infrastructure bill that would fix the Brent Spence Bridge and was negotiated by Sen. Rob Portman. Our politics in a nutshell.
Supporters of the Cincinnati streetcar will unveil nine proposed, potential new routes, an entire rail system that would extend throughout the city and into Northern Kentucky, at a community meeting on Thursday. Link in the next tweet.
Mayor Aftab Pureval expressing solidarity with Cincinnati’s sister city in Kharkiv and said the city has offered the federal government in helping resettle Ukranian refugees here.
Just in: Greater Cincinnati Water Works will close the Ohio River intake system as the chemicals from East Palestine pass the region "out of an abundance of caution." The city will provide water to the region via its reserves.
Just in: Mayor Aftab Pureval said there will be a parade if the Bengals win the Super Bowl, sometime next week.
“I’ve met several times with the city manager about the route. We are prepared,” Pureval said.
Cincinnati residents: I would like a grocery store within walking distance of my house.
Also Cincinnati residents: I do not want more people living near me.
Democrats have taken six of the eight judgeships they needed to win a majority on the Hamilton County Court of Common Pleas and the one they needed for the Hamilton County Appellate Court. Unheralded races but vital.
A hard truth: It will cost U.S. Rep. Brad Wenstrup, R-Columbia-Tusculum, absolutely nothing politically that he supported an effort to subvert the 2020 presidential election.
Ah, Frank LaRose, tonight learning the lesson of Jefferson Beauregard Sessions, Ron DeSantis, Kevin McCarthy, Mike Pence, Tim Scott and many, many before and yet to come who have defiled themselves for Trump. How much is your dignity worth?
I suppose we shouldn't be surprised that voters don't want to hand over more power to a corrupt statehouse, but still, it's a little bit life affirming, right?
The city of Cincinnati does not fund education. The city of Cincinnati does not fund education. The city of Cincinnati does not fund education. The city of Cincinnati does not fund education. The city of Cincinnati does not fund education.
No Cincinnati neighborhood outside the basin (and I will argue about that too) has a parking problem if people are willing to walk a few blocks and/or pay. Pretend it's a city, not Walmart.
Nearly got hit today while legally crossing Chase at Hamilton Ave. by a southbound driver trying to make a left. I was at a meeting 2 months ago where Northside was told there’s little $ for traffic enforcement, but I’m glad CPD has resources to try to bust gay men in the woods.
Maybe the governor should just get it over with and mandate them statewide with the proper exceptions instead of mayors doing his heavy lifting for him.
Gov. Mike DeWine backs Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley's push to require masks in public spaces there. "It’s an appropriate and welcome response to increasing numbers of COVID-19 cases in their area," he says. "I encourage other communities to consider following Dayton's lead.”
Single-stair apartments, like this one in Seattle, allow for 20 housing units on a lot that used to contain one single-family home. We need to legalize apartments on small lots so that we can build more missing middle housing with beautiful floor plans! (B9 architects)
Streetcar ridership hasn't just hit record highs locally, it is setting marks for growth that put it ahead of nearly every other transit system nationwide. What's next?
Folks, if you don’t believe local government is important and that you should vote tomorrow, Jaws is on AMC right now.
After screwing up Amity Island’s response to the giant shark attack, Larry Vaughn was still mayor in Jaws 2.
Uh, if Trump-loving, red, conservative Kansas doesn't want to ban abortion this much, imagine what the results will be in other states with citizen-initiated constitutional amendments. Like say Ohio.
Just in: Mayor Aftab Pureval and City Council members announcing a $5 million allocation of American Rescue Plan Act funds to the affordable housing trust fund, plus $15 million in private money, added to $42 million there now, for a $57 million total.
In addition to having its first Asian-American mayor, Cincinnati also will have a majority African American council with five members being Black. I haven’t dived into the history books, but my guess is that’s the first time that’s ever happened.
Mayor Aftab Pureval has appointed Daniella Beltran, an urban planner with Yard & Company, to be on the Cincinnati Planning Commission. She'll replace Olivia Smitherman.
It's been a while since the Planning Commission had an actual, uh, planner on it.
If Cincinnati and Dresden swapped public rail networks, to scale.
Dresden metro population: 600k
Cincinnati metro population: 2.3 million
Idea Credit:
@pushtheneedle
Just got off the phone with Cincinnati historian Dan Hurley, who confirms this is the first time since the 1925 Charter reforms that Democrats have had eight seats on council.
Uncle Woody’s on Calhoun near UC the next bar up to see council object to the renewal of its booze permit. Councilman Landsman notes that the solicitor’s report says the bar had more underage drinking citations than any other bar in the city.
U.S. Rep. Steve Chabot, R-Westwood, who voted to object to Pennsylvania’s electors back in January, was on national NPR earlier today, saying he was worried about America’s reputation in light of the events in Afghanistan.
Maybe CNN can replace Cuomo with a real newsperson at 9 p.m. That be a nice change of pace for the three cable news networks, whose prime-time schedules are nothing but televised op-ed pages, at best, and carnival barkers at worst.
The new Cincinnati City Council just reversed its first Cranley-era policy, voting to ask the administration to give it options to finish the Central Parkway bikeway on the street instead of the more-expensive off-street option.
After 2020, we’re going to need to ask Cincinnati City Council candidates: Do you have your personal finances in order? Can you and your family survive on a $65,000 salary?
Just talked with the head of the bus drivers union, Troy Miller, who refused to have bus drivers drive protestors to jail last night on curfew violation charges.
Gentle reminder: As Mayor, John Cranley led the effort to expand pre-school. Today, Cincinnati's Preschool Promise provides universal preschool for 3- & 4-year olds in Cincinnati public schools. Dayton's levy provides preschool for just four year olds.
Just in: Former Hamilton County Auditor Brigid Kelly has died. Statement from her family: "She was surrounded by love and peace after waging a two-year battle with cancer. She was a treasured wife, daughter and sister, a valued friend and a true public servant."
Caller on WLW now: “We had one of the great prophets of the last century in Martin Luther King Jr. The civil rights movement has gone so far to the left of him.” Try reading his speeches dude. All of them, not just that one part that sounded nice to you.
Cranley also lost the city of Cincinnati to Whaley and rather bigly:
Whaley 10,098
Cranley 8,397
So, Cranley did better in suburban Hamilton County than the city of which he was once mayor.
Just in: Voters approve Issue 22, the sale of the Cincinnati Southern Railway. And they have elected nine Democrats to Cincinnati City Council for the first time ever, ousting Republican-Charterite Liz Keating.
The mayor just referred to the Over-the-Rhine residential parking program as one that “privatizes, for the benefit of the wealthy, public streets.”
That comment as the city *literally* takes public space and turns it over to private business.
BART stops at midnight? Cincinnati Metro has routes that never stop now. I think a lot of people in the region don't realize how much our bus system has improved.
Why do restaurants in San Francisco close before 10pm?
One reason:
Workers can’t afford to live here, so they commute in from neighboring cities.
But b/c BART stops at midnight, workers need to leave early to get home.
As is often the case in SF, it comes back to housing.
Just in: Huge news for the CROWN. Procter & Gamble’s $1 million gift will allow the first phase of the bicycle/pedestrian network to be completed sooner than expected.
Ohio lawmakers have stuck it to cities again with Gov. Mike DeWine signing a bill that would ban projects with low-income housing tax credits from also receiving historic tax credits. This is going wallop projects by the Model Group and 3CDC specifically. .
Why am I, as a taxpayer, seeing public dollars used to subsidize parking garages? Why don’t commuters have to pay the full, market price for those spaces? And would the city subsidizing public transit be cheaper?