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Students Say “We Want the Downtown Streetcar!”
Creating Posters for Citizen Summit
If the Graham School existed at its Indianola Avenue location back in the day…. way back in the day….. as in the 1920′s, many of its students might have arrived on one of the interurban streetcars of the Columbus, Delaware & Marion Railway. The right of way of the now long-gone interurban once ran parallel to Indianola Avenue and across from the entrance to the school.
That historic factoid is not lost on this generation of high school students at Graham, a charter school within the Columbus Public School District. They get it that if the Columbus of their future is to be a better place, there need to be more options for getting around and a downtown streetcar is a good place to start.
To literally illustrate that point, Graham students will join with 1000 Friends of Central Ohio, All Aboard Ohio and other grass roots advocates, faculty, engineers, urban planners, environmentalists and local architects to create posters supporting the Downtown Columbus Streetcar proposal. And it won’t end there, because the students plan to take part in the upcoming January 29th 2012 Citizen Summit at the Greater Columbus Convention Center to show their support with those posters.
It’s a good story about young adults getting engaged in the issues affecting their future. Feel free to stop by and find out why.
Saturday, January 26th – 9:00 A-M to 11:00 A-M
Graham School – 3950 Indianola Avenue
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Students Say “We Want the Downtown Streetcar!”
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That’s awesome. I can’t wait to see these kids at the 2012 meeting, youth make things happen in local politics – I am convinced.
Also, I didn’t realize how far the old system went.
It went all night long. Uh Uh UMMMM.
Here’s a map of the street rail service in 1900:
The library has a map from 1911 that show more street lines than that.
whittier was called schiller street.
Nationwide Arena was called Ohio Penitentiary.
You gotta love “The Ohio State Asylum For Imbecile Youth”
former mayor Buck Reinhart wanted to turn the old OSP into a shopping mall. how funny would that have been, or genius.
Check out the canal cutting across the Whitier Peninsula thus making it Whitier Island. I think if Cols. had an island with streetcars on it, it would atract and retain more of those wonderful and desireable young professionals.
Looking at that map, I get super jealous. But then I calm down because I remember I have a bicycle. :P
Where did you get your bicylce from tell me please?
My brother bought it on ebay and let me have it. :P :P :P
That would have sucked. We’d have two City Centers to deal with instead of one. :?
they were smarter back then than they are now. i’ve always thought a streetcar down main street from the courthouse to capitol would be good. it would certainly help revitalize that corridor of which has enormous potential for dense urban development.
these kids are great and i’m going to personally shake their hands on the 29th. maybe we should elect a bunch of kids to city council and government postitions. they would probably get more done. mayor coleman is the shit though. i can’t imagine where this city would be without him. i suppose you have to give credit where credit is due to the city leaders. i mean, it’s not a walk in the park to run the 15th largest city.
The Graham kids are pretty cool. I used to deliver a 22 pizza order to them weekly. I wanted to slit my wrists because they were heavy and the secretaries were bitches and the kids would just stand in the middle of the hall and stare at me – instead of helping or getting out of the way. Oh – and I would get a whopping $2 tip (sometimes). But, the kids in that school are alright, I worked with a few of them. Maybe I’ll see them Tuesday…
From the German Village Society website:
“Perhaps most devastating was the onset of World War I, which stirred strong anti-German sentiment in Columbus’ largely American-born population. German books were burned, German newspapers closed; speaking German was also verboten. Officials renamed Schiller, Germania, Kaiser, and Bismarck streets as Whittier, Stewart, Lear, and Lansing Streets. Schiller Park became Washington Park.”
That’s pretty interesting.