Bicycle advocates announced today that Cincinnati has been named a bronze-level Bicycle Friendly Community by the League of American Bicyclists. Building on the positive recognition, city officials stated that the city will complete a bike share feasibility study this August. . . . → Read More: UrbanCincy: Cincinnati receives national bicycle award, announces bike share feasibility study
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On the inaugural episode of The UrbanCincy Podcast, urban planner Natalia Gomez Rojas joins the UrbanCincy team from Colombia to discuss bus rapid transit (BRT) systems. Randy and Natalia discuss their experience using the TransMilenio system in Bogotá, and the lessons Cincinnati and other U.S. cities can take away. . . . → Read More: UrbanCincy: Episode #1: Bus Rapid Transit Cincinnati’s city administration is working on a new complete streets initiative that could impact all 52 neighborhoods. Prior to any official actions, city leaders are waiting for the community to comment through the ongoing Plan Build Live initiative currently taking place. . . . → Read More: UrbanCincy: Cincinnati moves forward with city-wide ‘complete streets’ initiative Coffee Shops and the Post-Industrial City Urban coffee shops have long served as community focal points where people come to gather, relax and debate. But what role do these ‘third places’ play in our post-industrial cities? From Urban Relations: Coffee helps us. It helps us get out of bed, it raises our productivity and promotes [...] . . . → Read More: UrbanCincy: Coffee Shops and the Post-Industrial City Former UrbanCincy contributor Brad Thomas has been appointed to the SORTA Board by Cincinnati Mayor Mark Mallory. Thomas says he intends to focus on system integration and enhanced bus service when his term begins on May 1. . . . → Read More: UrbanCincy: New SORTA Board member to focus on system integration, enhanced bus service City and project officials are moving forward with a preferred alternative for the Brent Spence Bridge replacement and rehabilitation project, but new financial hurdles may offer an opportunity to reimagine the project in a more financially beneficial way. . . . → Read More: UrbanCincy: Reimagined Brent Spence Bridge alignment could prove to be financial windfall for Cincinnati Just two weeks after UrbanCincy called on city leaders to reform urban parking policy, Vice Mayor Roxanne Qualls has announced a new policy that would eliminate all parking mandates within Over-the-Rhine and the Central Business District. . . . → Read More: UrbanCincy: Cincinnati City Council prepares to take action against urban parking mandates Cincinnati Mayor Mark Mallory address more than 350 people at his seventh State of the City address Tuesday night. In the roughly 47-minute long speech he covered a wide range of topics highlighting recent success stories, and challenging more public involvement in efforts to come. . . . → Read More: UrbanCincy: Mayor Mallory highlights successes, commits to transit in seventh State of the City address Smart Growth America has begun a new video series highlighting elected officials from around the United States that have become the new leaders in the smart growth movement. In the first video of their series, Smart Growth America profiles Cincinnati and speaks to Mayor Mallory about recent progress made in the Queen City. . . . → Read More: UrbanCincy: Cincinnati Mayor Mallory heralded as national leader in smart growth movement Metro officials last updated the regional authority’s transit plan in 2008, but a lot has changed with public transportation since that time and leaders are looking to freshen up that vision. Four public meetings have already been held, with an additional four scheduled, and an online survey will be available now through August. . . . → Read More: UrbanCincy: Metro officials looking for public feedback to develop new regional transit plan Public policy surrounding parking has not changed much since mandates were originally developed through zoning codes decades ago. Those minimum parking requirements now not only appear to be outdated, but also hurting small businesses wanting to invest in urban neighborhoods across America. . . . → Read More: UrbanCincy: Parking mandates stymy development in Cincinnati’s urban neighborhoods A handful of historic office buildings in Cincinnati’s central business district sit underutilized, but as developers finish work on converting one of those structures into 88 apartments, might there be hope for the other grand structures? . . . → Read More: UrbanCincy: Downtown Cincinnati poised for surge of residential conversions City and regional leaders should maintain the natural beauty of the Ohio River and turn the Oasis Line into an attractive recreational trail that can connect into existing trail networks to the east, and the Wasson Line should be preserved for light rail use in the future. . . . → Read More: UrbanCincy: Cincinnati leaders should rethink planned rail, trail systems Uptown community leaders are hoping a new on-street parking proposal can gain traction at City Hall. Modeled after programs in San Francisco and Washington D.C., the on-street parking reforms hope to improve traffic flow, access to spaces, and cater to residents living in the densely populated CUF neighborhoods. . . . → Read More: UrbanCincy: Uptown neighborhoods looking to reform on-street parking policies Over the past few weeks, city crews were busy dismantling another section of downtown Cincinnati’s once extensive skywalk system. The section, an open air walkway over Elm Street and Rusconi Place, was taken down by the city in preparation for the World Choir Games this summer, and the demolition is the latest phase of an [...] . . . → Read More: UrbanCincy: The story behind Cincinnati’s slowly disappearing skywalk system On what turned out to be virtually perfect weather for Cincinnati in mid-February, hundreds of people gathered to celebrate the official groundbreaking of the Cincinnati Streetcar this past Friday. The event was announced to the public a week prior, and included dignitaries and media from not only Cincinnati but from around the United States. The [...] . . . → Read More: UrbanCincy: Hundreds of Cincinnatians celebrate groundbreaking for the Midwest’s first modern streetcar Beginning March 1, all 342 Metro buses will accept a new monthly payment system which allows riders to purchase rolling 30-day passes at any time. Transit officials also say that additional upgrades will be coming and include the introduction of a tap-and-go card later this summer. . . . → Read More: UrbanCincy: Metro to implement new flexible payment options March 1 Cincinnati Mayor Mark Mallory announced today that the city will break ground on its $110 million modern streetcar line next Friday. The ceremony will take place at 1pm outside of Memorial Hall, and city officials will be joined by Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood. . . . → Read More: UrbanCincy: Cincinnati to break ground on streetcar project next week with Ray LaHood While Cincinnati Mayor Mark Mallory is attending the Community Streetcar Coalition’s annual Streetcar Summit in Washington D.C., Duke Energy made the announcement that they would leave negotiations with the city over utility relocations. The announcement came as a surprise to many, and caused city officials to respond boldly. . . . → Read More: UrbanCincy: Duke Energy announces they will leave streetcar negotiations, city fires back While the announcement that dunnhumbyUSA will build a new office tower for its headquarters in downtown Cincinnati is good news, the whole situation may be a major missed opportunity for the region’s urban core. . . . → Read More: UrbanCincy: Downtown Cincinnati to get another new office tower, but is it an opportunity missed? |
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