So Cincinnati has 80 year old subway tunnels that have never been used. Now city officials are thinking about reviving the plan and opening the downtown subway. Let me tell you why this is a BAD idea.
First, this idea would cost several million dollars just to bring the place up to code and the other crap they’s have to do just to get it up and running again. And who would foot the bill? Why us tax payers of course.
Second, no one is going to use the subway. You can make it as fancy and modern as you want, but the only people that are gonna ride the thing are ghetto people that can’t afford cars and that really don’t have any place to go anyway.
And since only street thugs will be hanging around the subway, crime is sure to increase. Robberies and rapes would become all too common in the dark tunnels of the subway system. Do we want to spend millions for that?
Take my advice. Opening the subway is a bad idea. One which I see no good coming from. Just leave it. Either fill them in or have a tour of the tunnels or something. Don’t waste the time and money to reopen them.
March 15th, 2006 at 1:58 pm
They’ve been talking about opening the subway for years, it ain’t happening. They need to work on making downtown drivable first.
March 15th, 2006 at 2:05 pm
OK. They tried just in the last year or so to restart the subway, but it was rejected by the voters.
If the current mass transit authority came in and footed the bill, subsidized by their current system, then they would not have to put it on the taxpayers, only the people who would actually ride the mass transit. I happen to be one of them and if it went out farther than just downtown it may be worth wile. But only downtown kind of makes it more useless that the skywalk system that they are currently tearing down. I own a car, but fighting traffic every day then paying almost you entire paycheck in parking and gas, then you realize it is a small price to pay. But if they do not expand, I agree with Ken, it will just become another place for the lower end of society to fester. But I still think at this point it has potential.
But remember, all of this would be moot if they would have bought the right cars to fit into the tunnels in the first place!
March 15th, 2006 at 2:09 pm
There are the metro buses also. I don’t see the need to go beyond that.
March 15th, 2006 at 2:18 pm
If they are run by the same company, they can be used as a stable foundation for the busses. They will act as a mainstay, with the busses picking up the overflow They could cut down on the bus traffic on the streets. They would still be there, but not in the numbers they are now. Come’on Ken. You know you hate being stuck behind a slow bus stopping every 200 yards, and now you are supporting something that would not inprove on that. Sounds like are just wanting something to whine about!
March 15th, 2006 at 3:07 pm
Damn you Cam! Of course I want something to whine about. I grow tired of this topic. Now is the time on Sprockets when we dance.
March 15th, 2006 at 3:39 pm
yeah, its not nearly as exciting as boobs
March 15th, 2006 at 3:59 pm
Don’t ya think that it’s smart to have a good subway system first then they can work on making the roads more driveable. And with gas prices on the rise, it guarantees some level of success.
Ken: Stop being so narrow-minded. Not all people that ride the subways are ghetto and poor. I ride the subways in Detroit. (Mind you I am armed with pepper spray). And I aint no ghetto ho. lol
April 18th, 2006 at 9:04 pm
Attitudes toward infrastructure and other projects like this….
…are exactly why places like Portland Oregon are a shinging example of a city, growth, and low crime. Because the attitude is toward growth.
…are exactly why places like Cincinnati have bad crime, horrid standards of living, and in general are just shit holes to live in.
But that’s alright. Just makes cities like PDX that much better when people visit and realize what they could have with the right steps toward the future.
…and btw, making a city “driveable” is A: impossible and B: doesn’t do shit for living standards or increased incomes/decreased crime. If anything it just makes the city dirtier than it already is.
April 18th, 2006 at 9:15 pm
Hey adron, Cincinnati is far from a shithole. Like any city in America, it has it’s crappy areas, but in general, it’s a pretty nice place. What the hell is in Portland that’s so great?