Cincinnati Subway
The Cincinnati Subway is a subway in Cincinnati , Ohio , USA that began in the 1920s but was never completed . Of the planned 16 km long route, only about seven kilometers long between Norwood and the central business district or city center was built, but never put into operation. For the subway, only the tunnels were built on the said section, including the platforms at the stations, but no tracks or other technical systems were laid.
history
Planning for the Cincinnati Subway began in 1912. In a 1916 vote, more than 80% of the population voted in favor of the new subway, although it was estimated to cost between $ 12 million and $ 14 million. However, construction work did not begin until 1920 after the First World War . The forecast construction costs had been reduced to just under six million dollars before construction began.
During the construction work, however, there was an increase in construction costs due to inflation . There were also disputes with the neighboring cities of St. Bernhard and Norwood over management and construction costs. As a result, there were considerable delays in construction as early as 1921 and the construction site was often idle for weeks. In 1923 the tunnel sections between Norwood and Cincinnati were completed; By 1927, the open sections were also largely built.
In 1928 there was a political change in the Cincinnati City Council. The new city council saw the increasing construction costs - there were nine to ten million dollars in additional funding required - as a threat to the city budget and had the construction project halted.
Construction came to a standstill at the latest as a result of the Great Depression of 1929 and the Second World War . In the 1950s and 1960s, the tunnel mouths were partially filled in and the open sections leveled for road construction.
The total cost of the project, including interest, was $ 13,019,982.45 and was paid off by 1966.
course
The route should circle the city in an arc. Most of the arched section was on the surface and was supposed to end with an underground downtown stretch. The route partly follows the Miamikanal, which was closed at the same time as the subway construction .
The complete projected route ran as follows: The route should begin at 4th Street and Walnut Street near Fountain Square. From there it ran along Walnut Street to reach the former bed of the Miamichanal. This she should follow below the Central Parkway to over the Mohawk and Brighton areas of Ludlow Avenue. The built section ends at the Western Hills; from here it was to come to the surface, with a short tunnel under Hopple Street that was never completed. Above ground, it would have run to Saint Bernard in a lane in the canal bed, which now belongs to Interstate 75. Another tunnel had been planned from here, riddled with open sections, to Montgomery Road in Norwood. Another subway tunnel under Harris Avenue was to be reached via an elevated railway viaduct, since it would have come to the surface again on the way to Norwood Park. From here it would have gone further south along Beech Street through the United States Playing Card Company Duck Creek Road. It was also planned to completely close the loop, also using various tunnels and elevated viaducts.
Trivia
- Cincinnati also has an unused transit center from the 1990s near the football stadium.
- Several houses collapsed during construction.
- It would cost $ 19 million to fill the tunnels with rubble. Integrating the line into a new light rail network would cost $ 2.6 million, but there would be another $ 100.5 million for reactivating and restoring the existing systems. Refilling the sections with water would cost $ 14 million.
- In the television series Simpsons , Bart also discovers a forgotten subway in Springfield, but it is still in a more developed state and used to be intact.
- In Newark (New Jersey) there is also a subway built in a former canal bed (see Newark Light Rail ).
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Subway at Cincinnati Transit
- ↑ Subway at WLWT
- ↑ a b c d e f g Cincinnati Subway in Cincinnati Wiki ( Memento from April 30, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ a b c d e Forgotten Subway ( Memento from February 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Cincinnati Ghost Station
- ↑ Cincinnati Abandoned Subway TRAILER
- ^ Cincinnati Considers Options For Decades-Old Unfinished Subway. In: wlwt.com. December 6, 2007, accessed February 1, 2018 .