Cincinnati Heart Portland


Apparently we have Portland Transport readers all over, including John Schneider, who wrote this piece for a weekly in Cincinnati extolling Portland’s transportation virtues.

John is suggesting Cincinnati could emulate our transit-friendly downtown, and he points out examples including our Safeway, topped by condos and served by Streetcar.

Apparently we have Portland Transport readers all over, including John Schneider, who wrote this piece for a weekly in Cincinnati extolling Portland’s transportation virtues.

John is suggesting Cincinnati could emulate our transit-friendly downtown, and he points out examples including our Safeway, topped by condos and served by Streetcar.

There is a delegation from Cincinnati due in Portland to get first-hand research.


4 responses to “Cincinnati Heart Portland”

  1. Cincinnati should take advantage of their unused subway under downtown so they can have a rapid transit system for a fraction of what it would cost to build a new one now. Even the high platform stations are there.

  2. “Cincinnati should take advantage of their unused subway under downtown so they can have a rapid transit system for a fraction of what it would cost to build a new one now. Even the high platform stations are there.”

    Just so you know — Cincinnati has only two miles of subway tunnels, and they don’t penetrate the core of downtown. The Regional Rail Plan that was defeated in 2002 would have used the tunnels for the first two miles of the Westside Line, but it’s a common misunderstanding that Cincinnati has a network of unused tunnels sitting under downtown. Wish that we did.

    Beyond that, there’s sentiment among transit advocates here that rail should run at grade and not be elevated or buried.

    – John Schneider

  3. Wow. Portland really is the Mecca of urbanism in the US. Too bad we don’t have a sales tax to capture some of the money spent by tourists like these guys… we’d be a whole lot better off by letting outsiders fund our educational system!

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