Thursday, January 23 2014
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Streetcar Update: Pricing and Daily Commuters
Good news transit fans, the streetcar project is on budget and schedule per a recent report by project executive John Deatrick. Also noted recently were estimated consumer pricing for riding said streetcar: $1.75 for two hours and $3.50 for 24 hours. At that price point, officials have projected 3,000 daily commuters but caution that these estimates do not take special events into account.
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Bengals Ask County for Naming Rights
Since we clearly don't have enough corporate sponsorship already and the owners of the Bengals franchise haven't bled every possible cent from county taxpayers, the team now wants naming rights for Paul Brown Stadium in exchange for not opposing certain new developments at the Banks. Naming rights can be a big deal and mean big money to professional sports teams, as evidenced by Citigroup's recent $400 million dollar endorsement of the New York Met's ballpark.
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Aereo Brings Over the Air DVR Services to Cincinnati
Ushering in a new age of over-the-air broadcast access, television up-start and telecom-enemy number one, Aereo, has just launched its services in the greater Cincinnati area. Aereo provides a dedicated antennae with DVR like access to programming that you can record and playback from a variety of internet connected devices. Plans start at $8 a month for a single tuner and up to 20 hours worth of disk-space.
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Much Ado About Fracking
There hasn’t been a shortage of controversy surrounding whether or not fracking contaminates drinking water in the media lately. The environmental effects caused by the process of extracting natural gas from shale deposits is the focus of a study currently being conducted by researchers at the University of Cincinnati. The researchers are taking water samples for the Utica Shale region of Carroll County, Ohio, which is about 250 miles northeast of Cincinnati. Since 2010 Ohio has received more than 190 complaints of contaminants in drinking water.
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Oasis Rail Line Could Connect Eastern Suburbs to Downtown
If the Ohio Department of Transportation gets its way a 17-mile rail line would be constructed connecting residents living in Cincinnati’s eastern suburbs to downtown. The rail line, currently dubbed the Oasis Line, would be done in four phases, “from the Riverfront Transit Center to Montgomery Inn at the Boathouse, from the boathouse to Columbia Tusculum, from Columbia Tusculum to Fairfax/Red Bank Road, from Fairfax/Red Bank to Ancor and from Ancor to Milford,” according to the Cincinnati Business Courier. More than 3,200 people are estimated to ride the proposed line daily if it is constructed.
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