Kick off National Bike Month the right way by joining UrbanCincy on what has become a popular annual center city bike ride. This year’s Bikes+Brews route will start and end at Findlay Market, and will make five stops along the way. . . . → Read More: UrbanCincy: Start Off National Bike Month With 2013 Bikes+Brews Ride
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A month seemingly cannot go by in Cincinnati without the city’s streetcar project making front page news. Where exactly does the project stand, and how did we get here? . . . → Read More: UrbanCincy: Special Streetcar Meeting Called by Roxanne Qualls in Light of Funding Issues NYC’s newly opened bike share system experiencing record membership sales. New York City opened its much-anticipated CitiBike system earlier this week, and business is off to a record start. Within the first 24 hours alone, more than 4,000 people signed up for memberships. Cincinnati issued a request for proposals in October 2012 for what city [...] . . . → Read More: UrbanCincy: NYC’s newly opened bike share system experiencing record membership sales Metro plans to roll out a series of operational improvements and enhanced service along congested corridors throughout the course of 2013, and the new transit centers in Westwood and Uptown play a major role. . . . → Read More: UrbanCincy: Metro Seeking Public Feedback on Proposed City-Wide Bus Enhancements UrbanCincy is proud to announce a new partnership with the Niehoff Urban Studio that hopes to raise the level of discussion surrounding urban affairs in the Cincinnati region. The first event will discuss bus rapid transit and bikeway planning, and will take place on Friday, April 19. . . . → Read More: UrbanCincy: Expert Panel to Discuss Bus Rapid Transit, Bikeway Planning in Cincinnati on 4/19 Parking Requirement Removal Makes Housing More Affordable Hot on the heels of Cincinnati’s move to begin eliminating parking requirements in the urban core, UCLA has released a study that highlights how excess parking from parking requirements contribute to the increase in rent or mortgage payment for developments that may not need as much parking as [...] . . . → Read More: UrbanCincy: Parking Requirement Removal Makes Housing More Affordable The City of Cincinnati will hold a public conference this evening about proposed amendment to the zoning code that would deregulate parking requirements throughout the center city. The news comes one year after Vice Mayor Qualls passed a motion for such action. . . . → Read More: UrbanCincy: Cincinnati Proposes Eliminating Parking Requirements in Downtown and Over-the-Rhine Inadequate regional transit burdens Infrastructure Grade. Last week the American Society of Civil Engineers released their report card on the state of our nations infrastructure. Earlier, we broke down the report and analyzed what the numbers mean for Ohio and Cincinnati infrastructure but Next City has reviewed the numbers for rail and mass transit. Even though [...] . . . → Read More: UrbanCincy: Inadequate regional transit burdens Infrastructure Grade The American Society of Civil Engineers released its latest report card on the state of the nation’s infrastructure. While the country, as a whole, improved from a D to a D+ grade, Ohio sat stagnant earning the same C- grade it did in 2009. . . . → Read More: UrbanCincy: Ohio Fails to Show Improvement in Latest Infrastructure Report Card Portland celebrated the opening of its $148.3M East Side Loop streetcar extension six months ago. City leaders hope to continue the success story that has been told in the South Waterfront, Pearl District and Northwest District, but is it possible? . . . → Read More: UrbanCincy: Portland Aims to Replicate Streetcar Success on East Side of Willamette River Corryville has been a community in transition for more than a decade. With millions of dollars of private investment now flowing to the uptown neighborhood, where does it stand with regards to its overall vision? . . . → Read More: UrbanCincy: Private Investment Continues to Flow Uptown to Corryville and Short Vine The design and signalization of Cincinnati’s pedestrian crossings will be changing over the coming years due to new safety standards put in place by state and federal agencies. One of the improvements will include longer crossing times and new countdown signals. . . . → Read More: UrbanCincy: City of Cincinnati to Implement Safety Improvements for Pedestrians Cincinnatians have slightly shorter commute times than the national average. But, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s newly released study, the region’s suburban residents still sometimes commute as much as two hours a day. . . . → Read More: UrbanCincy: STUDY: Suburban Residents Have Longest Commutes in Cincinnati Region We’ll be back at the Moerlein Lager House on Wednesday for another edition of URBANexchange. This month we’ll be giving away two signed copies of ‘Cincinnati’s Incomplete Subway: The Complete History’ and will offer you a chance to speak directly with the author. . . . → Read More: UrbanCincy: Join author of book on Cincinnati’s incomplete subway at March’s URBANexchange Regional transit planners are looking to take advantage of growing ridership around Cincinnati’s uptown neighborhoods and second largest employment center by developing what will become the bus system’s secondary nexus. . . . → Read More: UrbanCincy: Metro to Break Ground on $6.9M Uptown Transit District this April The City of Cincinnati released the details of a proposed overhaul of the city’s parking assets, which would net an upfront $92M payment with installments of approximately $3M annually. The deal would lease thousands of on-street parking spaces, five city-owned garages and several city-owned parking lots. . . . → Read More: UrbanCincy: Cincinnati Aims to Use P3 to Upgrade Parking Assets, Leverage Economic Development Has the United States given up on building subway systems?. Everyone knows that America’s roadways and bridges are crumbling, but the United States has also seemingly given up on its subway systems. Atlanta’s subway system was the last subway system started in the U.S., and its construction commenced in 1979. Since that time no other [...] . . . → Read More: UrbanCincy: Has the United States given up on building subway systems? Michael Moore, Director of Cincinnati’s Department of Transportation & Engineering, joins Travis, Randy, Jake and John to discuss the department’s policy priorities and the many road, bike, and transit projects taking place across the city. . . . → Read More: UrbanCincy: PODCAST: Michael Moore from Cincinnati’s Dept. of Transportation A record number of people responded to OKI’s ‘How Do We Grow From Here’ survey, and the results show a clear preference for compact, walkable neighborhoods. . . . → Read More: UrbanCincy: OKI Survey Results Show Preference for Compact, Walkable Communities President Obama shifted the conversation towards jobs and the economy in his fifth State of the Union address. The hour-long speech covered a wide range of topics, but highlighted a variety of policy items and programs that would have a major impact on America’s cities. . . . → Read More: UrbanCincy: President Obama Shifts Attention Toward Economy, Cities in 2013 State of the Union Address |
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