City Council and SORTA should work together to do a 'quick build' for a Central Busway that will leverage our existing transit infrastructure, speed up service on our busiest routes, and form the backbone of any future BRT system. With the exception of a Glenway alignment, virtually any future BRT route would use some or all of this busway. Adding signal priority and bus-only lanes to the most traveled sections of our urban core will benefit riders on some of our most heavily used routes.

Our region is prepared to spend at least $2.6 billion (that figure is from a 2013 report assuming 2015 construction start, actual costs will almost certainly be much higher) to build a new bridge parallel to the Brent Spence Bridge. This is a mistake. Pre-pandemic traffic counts were about the same as they were in the mid-1990s. We just went through a year of having the bridge either shut down or at a much lower capacity and, while inconvenient, traffic simply adapted.

Our new Mayor & City Council can make a lot of progress on transportation issues during this council’s first term (2022-2024)

@AftabPureval @Jcramerding @KearneyForCincy @votelizkeating @ReggieForCincy @jeffreysms @meekaowens1 @ScottyJforCincy @Victoria4Cincy @GregLandsman 1/x 1.Planning. Begin design work and start the NEPA process for everything that we’d want to get funding for under the new Infrastructure Bill. We’re probably already behind other cities we’d be competing with for funds, but without taking these steps we won’t get federal funding.

The 5th anniversary of the @CB_Connector is one month away. It would be great if we could make some zero-cost improvements to the system like re-sequencing the midblock signals what would save over an hour of delays every day. Looking at just the mid-block lights, the streetcar is stopped at each one for 26 seconds & there's 3 per loop. That's 1 min 18 secs per loop. Average of about 70 loops per day (91 minutes per day) for 1615 days. That's 2,500 hours the streetcar has been stopped unnecessarily.

For a one time capital cost of about $220,000 (which we can use federal money to pay for) we can speed up the @CB_Connector by 5 minutes per loop, creating faster, more frequent service that will help drive ridership even higher. Here’s a quick glossary on the types of improvements proposed- “Change Light Sequence” refers to the mid-block crossings where the streetcar changes lanes.

There's been a lot of talk about how Cincinnati can afford Issue 3 because we approve millions of dollars a year in tax abatements, but the reality is, the actual money the City of Cincinnati forgoes due to the abatements is only a fraction of their total value 1/several Let's look at a hypothetical $1m residential townhouse in Over-the-Rhine. Total taxes per year are $23,564.78, so a 15 year abatement would be worth $353,471.70.

It's unfortunate that the authors of the Affordable Housing Trust Fund Amendment chose to underfund the proposal. Failing to provide a fund source means we aren't going to have a real debate about affordable housing and this vote likely isn't going to change anything. 1/many. The Amendment calls for spending $50m a year on affordable housing, which would be great, but doesn't provide any realistic funding mechanism to do so. The full text of the amendment is here. Funding sources are in Section 2- cincinnatusassoc.org/wp-content/upl…