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do you have the link?

There may be residential units included in the project according to the minutes, and the plans may have changed since then considering the demand seems to have grown since even earlier this month with the foundry now almost full. October 11th meeting ilivedowntown.com

It was mentioned in the Downtown Residents Councils meeting minutes from a week ago and I meant to post it but I totally forgot about it!

Weekly ridership has been consistently around 40-50k since June and has not had as much of a dropoff as prior years. Weekly since Sept 2016 Daily since June 1st, 2021

both, if you look at his campaign video on facebook he explcitly stated he wanted the streetcar uptown and a regional rail system.

I think in general there needs to be much more vocal advocacy movement to get an Uptown or even as John mentioned a Central Parkway extension of the Streetcar in the works. The movement kind of died down due to how strenous it was to even get the thing built, the constant fighting to even have it be a reality. And it happened but was downscaled from where it needed to be. I hear from many around UC that say that even if they werent in favor of it being built, it needs to be extended uptown to make it a cohesive system. I think BRT is a fantastic idea, but I think a Streetcar connecting uptown and Downtown as well as the West End and perhaps Covington and Newport with a combo of BRT and Light Rail in other areas would work out very very well. Cranley almost got this wish last year, and some council members finally realized we needed free fares permanently. I dont believe with current council without PG or Jeff Pastor there ironically despite them both being corrupt, they supported the plan, with their replacements I highly doubt seeing that moving forward as it did then. Free fares are working from a ridership perspective and have brought average weekly ridership number up to levels it was at in early 2017-late 2016. It is truly starting to be used as a transportation system envisioned. If council can be lobbied to first implement signal priority for the Streetcar and second implement a study as recommended by the Green Cincinnati plan in 2018 to connect downtown and uptown with the Streetcar, that would be fantastic. We need a study funded in the next 6 months, as with federal infrastructure dollars we need to have a plan to act fast. Also side note - Jim Tarbell seemed to be a VERY vocal advocate of both the Streetcar extension and Light Rail for the city.

Hmmmm can someone see what this hearing is about?

And I agree with this. The fact he is simply dismissing the notion of a light rail system by overestimating the cost of such a system by including fuel costs in the equation whilst ignoring the brent spence bridge replacement will likely cost 7 billion now. It's hypocritical and small minded. A more balanced thinker and one who embraces multimodal 15 minute city ideas of the future should be in his role, not someone who actively seems keen on suppressing anything that is not car or airport related. How long has he been in this role?

I find his comments to be frankly dissapointing and backwards thinking from someone who is the leader of the organization that helps determine what transportation and infrastructure projects recieve funding. No wonder there has been no traction in the area of planning a transportation system for the future in Cincinnati. His comments seem stuck in 1985. Having local leaders like him is exactly why our city and area is falling behind its peers. This also brings to me a need for further scrutiny of OKI, I saw the 2050 public input and comments. Many of them in the area of rail, pedestrian safety improvements, were simply ignored and left out of the final OKI 2050 plans. The difference in OKI 2040 and 2050 in terms of projects given support is incredibly stark.

So someone on Twitter just posted this and it would truly transform downtown. Apparently it's an unannounced project?? It would recess the highways. Found it here

@jag09had a link to 2020 demographic data by neighborhood in the Oakley development chat and while the link did not work for me, I was curious if somehow we could get that data together to make a picture of how our 52 neighborhoods populations changed from 2010-2020.

the link is dead for me, do you have another one?

Hamilton, Ohio is now larger than Youngstown, Ohio

In the latest planning commission packet I saw something very interesting. They are proposing eliminating minimum off street parking regulations in order to further densify the neighborhood and create an Urban Parking Overlay District. Page 72 of the packet. https://www.cincinnati-oh.gov/planning/about-city-planning/city-planning-commission/jun-4-2021-packet/

Ridership was updated through yesterday. This past Saturday had the highest ridership on the Streetcar since December 14th, 2019. The entire history chart of ridership shows how the ridership during the week has become to near normal levels. If this trend keeps up, 2021 could exceed 2017 in ridership in my opinion.

I saw the Mohawk Neighborhood plan was finalized and passed by City Council. One of the interesting plans I saw was this. This plan would create an incline from Henry Street to Bellevue Park. Probably will not happen but would be interesting. I really hope during the budget fight we see council try to get money to study the Uptown Extension.

I think with all of the Cleveland and Columbus population trends threads being so active, I was wondering, where is a Cincinnati one??? 🤨 Well here is one that last had a post in 2016 and a lot has changed since then and this needs a bump lol. Cincinnati's city population stopped declining in estimates after bottoming in 2012 at around 296500. 2019 estimate had the city population up to 303,940. I believe this is different from the prior fake out of 2007-2010's city estimate growth, as there is clear momentum and growth in the vast majority of city neighborhoods now. Even if the city had a slightly slower self response rate, I think this will be mixed out with what seemed to be a underestimate by census estimates of Ohio's population by 106,000. ACS had the city at 301,000, which it can underestimate trends and changes. Hamilton County, which peaked at 924,000 in 1970 has stopped losing population and is now gaining population. 802,000 in 2010, the last estimate in 2019 was 817,473. Butler County seems to have slowed down in population growth as has Warren County (but not as much as Butler). Now the question is, what will 2020 estimates being released next month show for counties and municipalities? The county and city head count will more than likely not be released for a few months. And if we account for the underestimating the 2020 census did with the estimates versus the actual 2020 census head count, how will that affect things? My predictions are July 1, 2020 (2020 estimates) Hamilton County - 820,100 City of Cincinnati - 304,530 April 1, 2020 (2020 official census) Hamilton County, - 822,800 (low end - 817,400 high end - 828,700) City of Cincinnati - 305,395 (low end - 300,200 high end - 309,670) The city will REALLY need to sell if we show a population gain that after 50 years of straight population loss, the city is on the mend again and rising in population, no longer numerically declining. I do think no matter what there is going to be a population gain in the city, all of the statistics have backed this up. Again, I do not think we are heading for a 2010 disappointment situation.

First time none of the mayoral candidates want to remove the streetcar. All of them seemed supportive of at least initiating another study on the Uptown Connector. Gavi wants us to build it ASAP if the infastructure plan passes. https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2021/04/26/mayoral-candidates-streetcar.html

This is a few charts from that website that show ridership. What I find noteworthy is the fact that again a large amount of offices are not back to full in person work yet. If this is the trend now, we could see a lot of ridership as soon as the pandemic ends. The weekly ridership gains and relatively stable ridership around 900-1,000 per day during the week is notable because it shows the community is using it more as a commuter asset than it was before. It will be interesting to see how this changes during the summer and fall. Past month until 4/17/2021 3/2019 until now. September 2016 to present.

I actually have not heard much about this, I know they changed some of the lights in 2019, but after that the news gets sparse.

A quick check of the website for ridership and this past Saturday had the highest ridership day excluding Blink since September 2019. Excluding that one day, we have to go back to July 2018. This past Saturday's weather was not the best either. 4,892 riders on Saturday. Ridership during the week has remained fairly consistent despite the weather not being as nice. I think as soon as workers start returning Downtown, ridership will be consistently high and perhaps finally sell the city administration on planning for an extension to UC after obstruction and tantrums from the current Mayor. https://www.cincinnati-oh.gov/streetcar/about-the-streetcar/ridership-and-reports/