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The Oasis Rail Transit project is the first proposed leg of a new regional rail system that will provide a new and much-needed transportation alternative for area residents. The Oasis line would span 17 miles (27 km) between the Riverfront Transit Center in downtown Cincinnati in The Banks area [5] and run east along a combination of existing ...
MetroMoves was a 2002 proposal by the Southwest Ohio Regional Transit Authority (SORTA) to expand and improve public transportation in the greater Cincinnati metropolitan area. [1] The 30-year vision included the addition of light rail lines, commuter rail lines, streetcars in the downtown area, and expanded bus routes. [2]
A single streetcar line, the Connector, runs between The Banks, Downtown, and Findlay Market in Over-the-Rhine in a 3.6-mile (5.8 km) loop. It opened in 2016. Future extensions have been proposed to the Uptown area, home to the University of Cincinnati, the regional hospitals, and the Cincinnati Zoo; and to Northern Kentucky.
Cincinnati Airport People Mover; Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railway (1926–1930) Cincinnati and Lake Erie Railroad; Cincinnati Street Railway; Cincinnati Subway; Cincinnati Union Terminal; Cincinnatian; Connector (Cincinnati)
Cincinnati's Union Terminal, now home to the Cincinnati Museum Center, opened in 1933 as a railroad station. The last passenger trains left the station in 1972, resuming in 1991 with the return of ...
In 2012 SORTA Metro released its schedule information in the General Transit Feed Specification, making schedules more easily available to customers. [5] The Cincinnati Bell Connector was operated by SORTA until 2019; the City of Cincinnati has since owned and operated the streetcar. Until 2021, SORTA Metro was funded primarily by Cincinnati's ...
After leaving Cincinnati, the train crosses into Kentucky, where it follows the Ohio River on the southern border of Ohio to Ashland, Kentucky. The Kentucky and West Virginia stations of Maysville , South Shore–South Portsmouth , Ashland , and Huntington are on Ohio's state border; the South Portsmouth–South Shore station primarily serves ...
Likely as a result of the extreme late-night schedule, ridership is among the lowest of Amtrak stations in Ohio and among the lowest for any station serving a metropolitan area of at least two million people. Union Terminal saw 11,862 boardings and alightings in 2016, 11,144 in 2017, 8,315 in 2018, 8,641 in 2019, 5,451 in 2020 and 7,164 in 2021.