12-16-2016, 12:10 PM
(12-16-2016, 10:25 AM)WeezyBengal Wrote: Ridership is way below than what was expected, 4 of the 5 cars are currently undergoing maintenance because they are broke, and the city is continuing to dump money into this thing.
What do you guys think? Has anyone rode it before?
Personally, I never liked the project from the beginning and the latest developments are just confirming that. The city dumped millions of dollars into this thing and it will just continue.
I guess im still failing to see the point of it. It covers like a two mile loop in central downtown. Cant people walk, take a Uber, or rent a red bike to get where they want to go downtown?
It works in other cities, such as Portland. I have not seen the Cincy incarnation, but I know initially ridership there exceeded expectations. Curious about the dip. Did you see a data set that tracked it?
There was opposition to the Cincy light rail, that I do know. I wonder if the proposal got so watered down as to make it impotent.
Ride share services like Lyft (and Uber) and cabs are not the answer to downtown congestion and pollution. Bikes are part of the solution in some communities - does Cincy have a bike rental program? We just added one in my new home town but have not seen data on its use yet. The goal of light rail is to take cars off the road and thus reduce congestion & pollution and make downtown more pedestrian friendly so people can, yes walk. Even if people still commute into or toward the downtown but then abandon their car for their movement in the urban corridor it helps with traffic and pollution. Nobody wants to walk or ride a bike in a downtown that is packed with idling automobiles moving at less than 10 MPH.
What would you propose as a better solution? (Again, bringing in more taxis and ride shares actually worsens the problem light rail is meant to solve.)
In cities like DC, Chicago, and off course NYC and London, a robust rail service serves millions if not tens of millions of riders each year. Hopefully the downtown loop is a first step for Cincy to get to a smaller scale but healthy rail transit system serving a broader swath of the city.
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