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Overflow Crowd At Memorial Hall
Last Friday, I took a long lunch and headed downtown for the Cincinnati Streetcar groundbreaking. It started at 1pm, and when I arrived around 1:15 there was already an overflow crowd gathered outside Memorial Hall. While I didn’t get a chance to go inside to hear the speeches from Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood or Cincinnati Mayor Mark Mallory, I did get to see them along with other members of the city council turn the first shovels on the old brick paved Elm Street.
Shovels Lined Up
Groundbreaking!
As many projects have had a ceremonial groundbreaking and then sat idle for a while, it was nice to see that before this ceremony even took place there were visible cuts through the old pavers. They have wasted no time getting started on the project and have already posted a progress video on YouTube, which you can find below. Other information and photos can be viewed on 5chw4r7z.com and UrbanCincy.
Nice. KC has a few dozen more multi-million dollar studies to do before starting one.