Beneath the streets of Cincinnati, Ohio, a set of visibly unused tunnels and stations for a rapid transit system could be seen. It is the abandoned subway of Ohio, called the Cincinnati Subway, infamous for its incomplete construction. The subway has been termed as “one of the city’s biggest embarrassments” and “one of the Cincinnati biggest failures”.
The construction began from 1920 and continued till 1925 with finance of $6 million which relatively got exhausted before the completion of the project. The project but, highlighted the technological advancement of that period, but had to be abandoned in mid-way even before reaching the 16 mile target, after the great depression and World War II, leaving behind with only 2.1 miles of tunnels (between Walnut street and near Western Hills) and three stations (Liberty St., Race St. and Brighton’s Corner) completely built underneath the Central Parkway.
Many of the items had really collapsed long back, and there was way made for I-75 and the Norwood Lateral in the 1950’s and 1970’s respectively. Earlier, the engineers planned out the extension from the Walnut St. south to downtown with one station at Fountain Square but it never got materialized. And moreover, several moving lines are untraceable as only three of the dozen planned stations above the ground were built.
The portions of I-75 and the Norwood Lateral somehow follow the path of the line, but a long stretch near the Dana Avenue of I-71 was considerably built where you can check out for the subway’s loop that was planned on the eastern half side of the subway.
The tunnel can still be used by public, as the government has looked into the relative maintenance of the subway in the past recent years. The “Metro Moves” sales tax in 2002 could have been a great funding for the maintenance of the tunnel, but it was never favored by the common public.
Via Cincinnati Transit.
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February 11th, 2010 at 12:58 am
Interesting photos. Next time, however, perhaps the author of the text could use more ‘conventional’ syntax, vocabulary and sentence structure.
February 11th, 2010 at 1:24 am
Very spooky tunnel piks! Great place to film a horror movie.
February 11th, 2010 at 2:21 am
Methinks you use relative relatively too much.
February 11th, 2010 at 2:22 am
I can only hope that you are the only person in Ohio that has no sense of grammar or sentence structure.
February 11th, 2010 at 4:16 am
“The portions of I-75 and the Norwood Lateral somehow follow the path of the line, but a long stretch near the Dana Avenue of I-71 was considerably built where you can check out for the subway’s loop that was planned on the eastern half side of the subway.”
Was this even written by a native speaker of English? Planet Oddity’s biggest oddity might be its proofreading staff. Interesting photos, though. Will look forward to the translation.
February 11th, 2010 at 6:49 pm
This is an interesting subject and neat pics, but you really really need an editor. The writing is terrible. Clean up the text, and you have a winner.
February 11th, 2010 at 8:13 pm
Great pictures but uhh..What’s up with all the grammar issues in this story?
February 11th, 2010 at 8:50 pm
Interesting article, however the whole thing is a grammatical nightmare.
February 11th, 2010 at 9:00 pm
Whoever wrote this should go back to school. Does this website have an editor that they can fire? There is a lot of things in this article that don’t make sense grammatically
February 13th, 2010 at 9:44 am
fallout movie, anyone?
February 15th, 2010 at 1:20 am
This sounds like an opportunity to make money…Seattle has the Underground City for the tourists…why not have an underground unused subway?