Transportation in Cincinnati

Transportation in Cincinnati includes sidewalks, roads, public transit, bicycle paths, and regional and international airports.

Exceptions do exist in patches of flat land where they are typically small and oriented according to the local topography rather than the cardinal directions.

Interstates 71, 74, and 75 are major routes connecting to Louisville and Lexington in Kentucky; Indianapolis; and Dayton and Columbus in Ohio.

The downtown area features a system of viaducts with names such as Western Hills, Ida, and formerly Waldvogel.

A project to reroute and extend Five Mile Road into what would have been an invaluable traffic artery for the Eastern villages and townships was begun, but it was ultimately left unfinished.

This would more effectively integrated Anderson Township and Newtown with neighboring Plainville as well as Mariemont, Indian Hill, and Terrace Park (by extension).

Land acquired was instead ceded to its parks department, which still maintains a spacious trail for pedestrians and cyclists in the obvious place where the expressway currently stops abruptly.

The road changed names back to Glendale-Milford entering Miamiville, then turned south heading through Camp Dennison before terminating at Route 50 (Wooster Pike) in Terrace Park, yards from the Hamilton-Clermont County line.

SORTA is significantly larger than TANK, operating more lines, at higher frequencies, and carrying about six times as many passengers on an average day.

A single streetcar line, the Connector, runs between The Banks, Downtown, and Findlay Market in Over-the-Rhine in a 3.6-mile (5.8 km) loop.

With the advent of inexpensive automobiles and improved roads, transit ridership declined in the 20th century and the streetcar system closed in 1951.

[10] Amtrak's Cardinal train travels to Chicago and Indianapolis to the northwest and to Washington, D.C., Philadelphia and New York City to the east.

Greyhound operates a 24-hour bus terminal (formerly in Downtown Cincinnati, now in Arlington Heights) with trips to all major nearby cities and connections to the rest of the country.

[11][12] For the last couple of years, Megabus has also operated several trips a week between Cincinnati and a few major cities in the midwest.

There have been several attempts in recent decades by the SORTA to use the subway tunnels for a light rail system, but ballot initiatives to generate funds for such projects have so far all failed.