Comments on: Readying Streetcar Plans, Cincinnati Considers Reducing Parking Requirements

By: FG

FG — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 20:12:30 +0000

But few developers use this. And community groups (aka Nimby’s) often object to any reduction in parking – usually successfully.

By: laldm

laldm — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 03:18:30 +0000

This seems like quite a forward-thinking policy. Chicago has a similar policy for its L system, but the distance is the same – 600 feet. In that case, the distance should be a lot larger, but in the case of a streetcar, which is not likely to be used as much as a rapid transit system (it is, after all, in essence, a really nice bus), this seems to make sense.

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By: Jeffrey Bridgman

Jeffrey Bridgman — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 04:37:47 +0000

Good job to Cincinnati on making policy decisions to support the use of transit!

By: Brent

Brent — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 03:24:30 +0000

That’s an awfully short distance, and I wonder what it was based on. Normally a 5-minute walk, or roughly 350 to 400 metres, would be considered a typical catchment area for a surface transit stop. The Cincinnati standard is barely half that. Even worse, the area to which the reduced parking permissions would apply is less than 1/3 of what it could be with a 5-minute radius (12.5 vs. 41 hectares).

By: W. K. Lis

W. K. Lis — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 21:22:30 +0000

1. Streetcars should run until AFTER the bars close.

2. Bars should not provide parking for their patrons, let them take public transit home. Else it would be encouraging drinking and driving, by providing parking.

By: Yonah Freemark

Yonah Freemark — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 21:00:10 +0000

Haha, I was going to delete it, but you guys made it worth keeping…

By: M1EK

M1EK — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 20:45:23 +0000

Are they giving their streetcars their own lane? If not, the quality of the service is objectively inferior to buses, and even less likely to attract riders in the long-term. Jarrett’s long series on streetcars and mobility can’t have been forgotten this quickly…

By: EngineerScotty

EngineerScotty — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 20:36:50 +0000

As spam goes, this one’s pretty incompetent. No links to drive up search engine rankings, on a website where nobody is likely to care. After all, this is a transit site, so we prefer cruise ships (the streetcars of the sea) to SOBs. (Single-occupancy boats–whad did you think?)

By: Woody

Woody — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 20:08:28 +0000

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