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Light Rail by 2008
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Anne
King Lincoln
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Quote from the article:
"The approved plan was developed through analysis by the Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission and community forums. Bradley said the community members voted 124-1 in favor of the light rail."
I wonder who the one stick in the mud was? :lol:
Just wondering, is it going to be a 24 hour thing? That would be cool, or at least until sometime like 3AM.
Posted 8 years ago # -
Walker
The KLD / Downtown
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It'll probably be on similar schedules to the busses that serve that area, I would think.
According to COTA's website, the initial path that will run from downtown up to Polaris will be the first of EIGHT "corridors" planned for Columbus/Central Ohio. It says that this initial "corridor" is also under planning for being extended all the way up to Cleveland, and down to Cincinnati, making a nice easy way to jump between Ohio's big 3 C's.
Pretty sweet. :)
Posted 8 years ago # -
brothermarcus
West Siiiide
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they talked about the columbus/cleveland/cincy rail thing a long time ago as well. this is a great idea for college students and such- if you have no car and you need to get home to cleveland/cincy you can just hop on a train- might take longer but a lot more convenient than trying to arrange transportation...
i've felt columbus needed a late-night option for a long time, it would help to open up the downtown area to a lot of people if they didn't have to figure out driving/parking and all that mularchy... cleveland's light rail system (rts) is pretty schweet, pick it up in the close suburbs and in no time you're right in the thick of things downtown...
Posted 8 years ago # -
brothermarcus
West Siiiide
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i used to live with two cleveland-ites that didn't have cars, so they were pretty up on this when the idea came around back in 1998- back then the price estimate was roughly $10-12 depending on where you get on/get off...
Posted 8 years ago # -
J Allan
Irving, Texas (ex: Dublin, Ohio & Detroit)
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I just hope it doesn't turn out like the "People Mover" in Detroit where you have to duck bullets as it travels around the downtown, and I'll have to check out the "DART" system in Dallas when I move down there next month..
I hope it works because it is a good idea, and I hope it makes people want to stay in downtown Columbus in the evenings...
Indianapolis is in the process of finsihing a monorail system that connects some of the city's hospitals, currently about 10-20 miles apart...maybe Columbus will have something very similar...
Posted 8 years ago # -
Walker
The KLD / Downtown
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J Allan wrote I just hope it doesn't turn out like the "People Mover" in Detroit where you have to duck bullets as it travles around the downtown, and I'll have to check out the "DART" system in Dallas when I move down there next month..
Well, i think the bullets were in Detroit before the people mover was. Columbus doesn't have that sort of problem... or at least not as much...
I hope it works because it is a good idea, and I hope it makes people want to stay in downtown Columbus in the evenings...
people need to live downtown before they'll stay downtown. But I guess with all of the new residential developments and re-developments going on, that should be less of a problem by 2008. :)
Posted 8 years ago # -
buckeyenation
Downtown C-bus
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I was looking back at old threads to remind me of the timeline of conversations regarding rail in central Ohio. Sadly, rail by 2008 was not accomplished. Now, in 2011 it seems unlikely. I'll continue getting my fixes of hope by reading old threads of when the possibility of rail seemed more likely.
I remember voting in my very first election after I turned 18, in 1999, for a COTA light rail plan that would have been up and running by now.
Maybe one day.
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