Metro’s Riverfront Transit Center
The Metro hosted an open house in the transit center which considering you normally aren't allowed in there I was surprised more people didn't show up. I had been in the transit center before whenever someone would inadvertently leave a gate open. Always at high rates of speed on the bike with shouts of "you can't be in here" trailing off into the distance behind us.
So I knew all this cool tile work was down there, I just never had a closeup look at it until now.
Depending on what happens December 1 we could have light rail in here in 10 years, or 100 years. It all depends on city council now.
The first African American to win an Olympic gold medal in an individual event; the running long jump at the 1924 Paris Summer games.
Seems like an odd place to memorialize him as he never had anything to do with transportation. maybe it was the Union pacif logo tattoo'd on his chest?
He worked for the Federal Housing Authority in Cleveland for years. He also founded the Cincinnati Tigers, a professional baseball team, which played in the Negro American League.
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What's the deal with it? Are there plans to open it?? I've never really heard anything about it? Looks cool... may have to do some breaking & entering. ;-)
ReplyDeleteIts used for charter buses coming in for Reds/Bengals games. There are no other plans that I'm aware of.
ReplyDeleteMegabus should use it for a stop.
ReplyDeleteMegabus should use it as a station for Cincinnati. I wish Metro and them would collaborate and get this done.
ReplyDeleteThe transit center was a project done with great foresight during the FWW rebuild. It's not been used hardly at all, but remains available, as 5chw4r7z notes, for when (if ever) our city gets its act together and decides to upgrade our mass transit options. It's been a thorn in the side of anti-transit folks, since it added costs to the changes in Fort Washington Way, but as it's supporters have always noted, it would have cost significantly more had we attempted something like this after the fact. They call it, as usual, a "folly", but the only folly is our failure to move forward in making our city a modern transportation city .
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ReplyDeleteIn order to Megabus to use the facility, someone would have to pay to have the facility staffed and keep the ventilation system running. (It has massive exhaust fans to deal with fumes from diesel buses or trains.) It's not impossible, but there are some details to be figured out.
ReplyDeleteAnd why would Megabus take on that expense when they can pick people up off the curb with almost no cost? They have flexibility now, they started out on 7th St, now they're on 4th. I wonder if they'll move again once demolition begins on Pogues Garage in the spring?
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