Cincinnati's Incomplete Subway: The Complete History

by Arcadia Publishing

Overview

Local author Jacob R. Mecklenborg reveals a fresh, thought-provoking, full examination of the Cincinnati subway's demise and what its future might hold.

What of those ghostly catacombs that lie dormant below city streets? Those subway tunnels, never finished, never filled with the screeches of trains and the busy commotion of commuters. Just there. Dead. You've heard of the subway's demise. The tunnels were too narrow. The city was too broke. A grand miscalculation. Well, most of what you've heard is, sorry to say, untrue. The popular story of the subway's demise is myth-laden and as incomplete as the original plan. The full story, long buried in mounds of public records dispersed in libraries, is now exposed.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781596298958
Publisher:	Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date:	11/05/2010
Series:	Transportation
Pages:	216
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Jacob Mecklenborg is a Cincinnati native and a graduate of St. Xavier High School, the University of Tennessee and Ohio University. He has worked as a photojournalist, a graphic designer, a teacher, and as a towboat deckhand. More information on the subway project and contact information are posted on his website, www.jakemecklenborg.com.

Table of Contents

Preface 7

Acknowledgements 9

Introduction 11

1 The Deer Greek Tunnel: Precursor to the Rapid Transit Loop 21

2 Early Interurban Plans and the Supplemental Tunnel Entrance 29

3 The Canal Lease 39

4 The Arnold Report 45

5 The Edwards-Baldwin Report 53

6 Rapid Transit Loop Bond Issue Campaign and Ordinance 96-1917 65

7 Construction of Sections One through Four 75

8 Construction of Sections Five through Nine 95

9 Central Parkway 109

10 Burying the Subway 119

11 Streetcar and Freight Subway Proposals 137

12 The Millcreek Expressway 149

13 Attempts to Revive Rail Transit in Cincinnati 159

14 The Future 179

Appendix A Canal Statement 185

Appendix B Rapid Transit Loop Article 189

Appendix C Timeline 197

Appendix D Frequently Asked Questions 201

About the Author 207