From this chart, Cincinnati City Council candidate Mellissa Wegman extrapolates that because of declining population, Cincinnati will not be able to afford a streetcar in the future (even tho we ran them before with even smaller populations). From the lies, damn lies & statistics dept, we can also figure that we should lay off police, fire & sanitation workers, quit paving roads & turn off streetlights.
While we
will all be Elvis impersonators by 2043, we can also use some bistro math to predict the city of Cincinnati will be devoid of people shortly after 2100. Simply a ghost town with an empty trolley going around in circles clanging it's bell for no one...
UPDATE: oh, yeah, and a dog barking in the distance.
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In what years was the original streetcar operational in Cincinnati?
Well, there was no "original streetcar". There were a number of rail routes operated by individual entities and were originally pulled by horse or mule, later steam & electric powered cars came along. I think there was one that went up the hill from the Mill Creek valley towards Westwood that was pulled by a steam engine powered winch.
These conveyances were run from the mid 1850s to the mid 1950s.
More:
http://jjakucyk.com/transit/streetcarinfo.html
So, Cincinnati experienced an approximate 500 percent increase in population with rail-type transportation and an approximate 40 percent decrease since those options were abandoned? That's amazing.
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