citybeat.com "Earlier this year, a bizarre coalition that includes the NAACP’s Cincinnati chapter and the ultra-right Coalition Opposed to Additional Spending and Taxes (COAST) successfully collected enough signatures to place a referendum on the November ballot involving the streetcar project. What’s odd is that the NAACP would play along with this gambit. Many passenger rail projects — like the countywide light rail plan defeated by voters in November 2002 — are designed to help improve access for poorer, inner-city residents to suburban areas like Mason and West Chester, where jobs tend to grow faster. Had the “Metro Moves” plan been approved seven years ago, the first phase would have been completed by now, surely a benefit to low-income residents who don’t own cars or can't afford high gas prices. One would hope the NAACP would want to increase choices for the poor. COAST’s motives are suspect, and the local NAACP is foolish to be an accomplice."
What’s up with that NAACP? You don’t want to help your own kind? I have been saying for years that the City of Cincinnati needs some sort of rail system that connects the whole Greater Cincinnati. Has anyone sat through the traffic on 75 or 71 in the afternoon? Why can’t we put some money in a rail project instead of expanding 275 and 75 to 20 lane highways? This is starting to get ridiculous, after traveling and seeing many other cities around the country I can tell you that Cincinnati officially sucks when it comes to transportation. To me Cincinnati always stays in a hole, no matter what everyone else is doing around them.
Imagine what would of happened if the voters have passed the countywide light rail plan in November 2002. The first phase of that project would be done by now. Way to screw it up Cincinnatians. For Christ sake even brown town Cleveland has a rail system. Which bring me to an old saying about Cincinnati “When the end of the world comes, I want to be in Cincinnati because it's always twenty years behind the times.” – Mark Twain
Where is our Streetcar?
Thursday, September 03, 2009
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