This morning on Newsmakers with Dan Hurley, Councilman John Cranley and Hamilton County Commission President Todd Portune discussed this week’s rejection of a far increase for Metro. They also talked at length about the need to completely restructure how our regional transit system works.
The problem with current funding, they say, is that suburban jurisdictions pay far less than their fair share. To really maximize the usefulness of the system, it’s obvious that a reformed system will have to include more cross-town routes and loops that don’t necessarily go all the way through Government Square. If suburban jurisdictions are going to see the value in transit and put some money into it, we have to make a system that actually serves them.
We can probably all agree that as important as the streetcar will be for economic development in the city core, a comprehensive regional transit system will have an even greater impact on the whole region.
If you missed the program, it should be up on the Newsmakers website later. The second half of the show was about a really interesting study of Cincinnati’s scenic hillside views.
July 1, 2007 at 11:18 am |
Oh darn, Diane and I were up at Findlay Market all morning and missed it. I guess we’ll have to watch it online. That Dan Hurley. He’s a strange one. Haha.