Over the past year,
Metro has renovated its transit district in Uptown. Metro’s four boarding areas throughout Uptown now offer many amenities to bus riders, including distinctive sheltered boarding areas, real-time information, integration with employer and university shuttles, wayfinding and rider information kiosks, and enhanced streetscapes and sidewalk improvements in some areas.
Metro now has 13 boarding shelters in Uptown : the Clifton Heights Business District (four shelters); Vine and Calhoun streets (two shelters); the
University of Cincinnati at Jefferson Avenue (three shelters); and the medical centers (four shelters).
Government Square in the central business district and Uptown are the two largest transportation hubs in the city. Uptown represents about 50,000 jobs and an economic impact of more than $3 billion.
“We’re trying to make it easier for Metro riders to access this thriving area using transit,” says Jill Dunne, public affairs manager for Metro. “We hope that the better connections and amenities will increase transit use and reduce traffic congestion in Uptown.”
The $7 million project was funded by federal earmark and federal Congestion Mitigation/Air Quality funds made available through the Ohio Department of Transportation and the
OKI Regional Council of Governments, as well as other local funds.
Metro regularly reviews how to address the needs of its entire service area, and is continuously looking at the community’s needs for additional transit districts in the city.
“Metro has been working on this for several years, and has been working with partners, including the
City of Cincinnati, UC and
Uptown Consortium, to create a way to meet the unique transit needs in the area,” Dunne says.
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