A group of Short North Businesses including Tigertree, Sandbox, and Paradise Garage jointly announced today that they’re launching the first ever bikeshare program for Columbus: EveryoneBikes. Ten brand new Africa Bikes will be available as of 5pm today for riders to borrow for errands, tours, exercise and other types of short trips around the city. [...]
Archive for July, 2009
EveryoneBikes – New Bikeshare Program Launches
Posted in Bicycle X-ing, tagged bikes, biking, cyling, short north on July 31, 2009 | 4 Comments »
LaHood: Ohio has Strong Application for Rail Funds
Posted in Rail X-ing on July 28, 2009 | 4 Comments »
There seems to have been a huge number of applications for federal high speed rail funds; over $100 Billion so far. Therefore, the House has decided to up the pot of money from $8 Billion to $12 Billion. See below for more: House passes increase for housing, high-speed rail By ANDREW TAYLOR (AP) – 5 [...]
COTA Unveils New Late Night Weekend Bus Route
Posted in Bus X-ing, tagged bus, busing, COTA, high st on July 21, 2009 | 15 Comments »
One of the most frequently requested COTA upgrades I’ve heard would have to be the addition of a late night weekend bus route serving High Street that runs until the bars close down. It sounds like COTA has been listening. In September, COTA will be launching a new route (numbered appropriately as the #21) that [...]
ODOT Launches New 3C Website
Posted in Rail X-ing on July 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Ohio’s 3C Passenger Rail Corridor Ohio’s 3C is ME! The time for Passenger Rail has come to Ohio! Ohio’s 3C Corridor will connect Cleveland, Columbus, Dayton, and Cincinnati as part of President Obama’s nationally-prioritized Chicago Hub Network. The 3C Corridor is a federally designated high speed rail corridor, but has not seen passenger service since [...]
Stop – Collaborate and Listen
Posted in Uncategorized on July 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I was out for a walk with my son on Saturday while my car’s oil was being changed and I saw this sign and took a picture with my cell phone. It’s not particularly relevant to anything, but I thought it was too funny not to post. Ice is back with my brand new invention [...]
Ohio Submits Application for Relatively High Speed Rail Funds
Posted in Rail X-ing on July 19, 2009 | 6 Comments »
I say “relatively” high speed because 110 MPH is fast by U.S. standards, but not by international standards. Don’t get me wrong though, I’d be more than happy to start with a train doing 79 MPH. High-speed rail for Ohio estimated at $1.53 billion Friday, July 17, 2009 10:16 PM By James Nash THE COLUMBUS [...]
Could Cincinnati Derail the 3C Rail Line?
Posted in Rail X-ing on July 16, 2009 | 9 Comments »
If you haven’t checked out the new transportation blog in town yet, now’s a great time to head over to CBus Transit. There’s a very good post explaining attempts to thwart Cincinnati’s streetcar, and in the process the Cleveland-Columbus-Dayton-Cincinnati inter-city Amtrak route too. Could Cincinnati Derail Ohio’s Plans? Cincinnati is poised to derail the state-wide [...]
Will We Be Stimulated Soon?
Posted in Multi-Modal X-ing on July 16, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I’m behind in posting general transportation news. Here is an update from the Dispatch from a few days ago on the status of stimulus funds. I copied and pasted the parts relevant to transportation. Most local stimulus projects still pending Sunday, July 12, 2009 3:36 AM By Doug Caruso THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH The federal stimulus [...]
What are the Benefits of a Streetcar?
Posted in Rail X-ing on July 15, 2009 | 13 Comments »
We haven’t talked about streetcars much here lately, although one thread has started to heat up again on Columbus Underground in the past week. I wanted to share an interesting article I read on Human Transit last week though. The author of the blog, Jarrett Walker, is a transit consultant based in Australia. The article [...]
A Ten-Year Rail Plan for Columbus
Posted in Rail X-ing on July 13, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Paul Benson posted a pretty cool slide show on ColumbusUnderground recently that imagines a comprehensive passenger rail network for central Ohio being constructed between 2014 and 2024. Here’s an image of the final network: I think it’s really important that any future rail proposals in Columbus have a longer range map like this. A major [...]
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