The Ohio Historical Society unveiled a new historical marker yesterday to honor the recently restored interurban depot in Canal Winchester. The Dispatch has a great article running today (“Depot’s day, 80 years later“) that features a bit of history about this electric fixed-rail system that served the region in a similar manner to a light-rail [...]
Archive for May, 2010
A History Lesson on the Columbus Interurban System
Posted in Rail X-ing, tagged history, interurban, rail, trains on May 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Hilltop Bike Lane Controversy Continues
Posted in Bicycle X-ing on May 19, 2010 | 9 Comments »
We previously covered the controversy surrounding a proposal to install bike lanes on West Broad Street in the Hilltop here. Basically, the city wanted to strip parking from the north side of the street in order to install bike lanes (see Figure III below), but business owners wanted to keep on-street parking. The City’s Transportation [...]
COTA Makes Progress on Cost Cutting
Posted in Bus X-ing on May 19, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Higher ridership and lower costs? This is about the best news any transit agency could want. We previously compared COTA’s costs to its peers here using 2007 data. The 2008 NTD data are out now, but I haven’t analyzed that yet. It’s on my long “to do” list that probably won’t get accomplished anytime soon. [...]
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