There’s money in place to build the Cincinnati Streetcar line. Cincinnati City Council voted, last night, to move $29 million from other funds to the project. It’s an effort to keep the project on track, as they are negotiating with Duke Energy on the relocation of power lines. The vote followed three hours of debate, […]
This may be the result, if Cincinnati City Council and Duke Energy settle with negotiations. Yesterday, it was reported there is progress between the two sides on relocating utility lines for the streetcar project. They’ve whittled down the costs and the safety issues for the groundwork. Here’s the catch, Duke Energy wants utility regulators to […]
The Cincinnati streetcar project is looking for minority and women-owned businesses to get involved in the construction process for the streetcar. Tonight (Thursday), a meeting will be held to get interested companies to register as a “Disadvantaged Business Enterprise.” Also known as the DBE program, it helps ensure that firms and companies owned by socially […]
Yesterday morning, proponents of the Cincinnati Streetcar held a press conference, at city hall, urging Cincinnatians to vote no on issue 48. Some of the people that spoke yesterday, were former Cincinnati NAACP presidents Milton Hilton and Nathaniel Jones. Check out the video below to hear the reasons why the former chapter presidents are supporting […]
Today we should be finding out if there are enough signatures collected to put another streetcar referendum on the ballots this election day. At 10 am, NAACP President Christopher Smitherman will be holding a press conference today at 1703 Dale Road. Nothing has been leaked on what this press conference is about, but from what […]
Whenever you hear about the proposed plan to build a streetcar, downtown, you’ll sometimes hear an expert or a city official talk about modeling the project off of Portland’s streetcar system. Last week Portland Mayor, Sam Adams, has abandonded plans to add an $80 million dollar streetcar to downtown because “The money hasn’t materialized.” Portland […]
