Abandoned Cincinnati Subway Documentary - Is There Hope For Resurrecting the Subway?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 เม.ย. 2020
- An abandoned network of subway tunnels lay hidden underneath Cincinnati. Closed off and mostly hidden, many residents aren't aware that they even exist. But city engineers and planners say that there may still be hope to bring this 100-year-old project back to life.
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I believe that the original intent was to take above ground commuter trains underground as they approached the downtown area to relieve congestion. Unless above ground commuter lines are also resurrected, reviving the subway would be no more than a novelty and very unlikely.
In the late 50's, I was about 5 years old. My family lived on Hopple st. And at the time they we're in the process of putting in I75 me and a boy named Tommy would cross over where I75 is now and go to the openings of the subway under the Central parkway. At that time the entrances to the subway was open. Not knowing what it was we called it the devils den and would dare each other to go in. My name is Ron I am 66 years old. This video brings back lots of memories. Just wonder if Tommy is still alive and if he ever thinks of those days? My Father use to work at a tannery on Hopple st called Haffner Brothers Tannery, that sat at the corner of Hopple and Central Parkway at the corner of Taft Field ball park which was removed to make way for the exit ramp from I 75 to Hopple Street. Wish I could find some pictures of the old tannery and Taft Field park.
Thanks for the comment and the story, Ron. I hope that Tommy sees this and that you two are able to connect!
I believe that the subway runs under Central Parkway, unless there are two of them.
@@kosmokritikos9299 Yes your right, I get mixed up with the town where I live now. We have a Columbia Street. Thanks for the correction.
At the time the Subway was being thought about, and finally started, Cincinnati had a very bright future! In fact it was one of the leading cities in the Midwest, on Par with Chicago. I think New York City and maybe a one/two other cities had Subway Systems, so Cincinnati was in very good company.The Leaders of the City at that time, were thinking much differently than they are today.
From the 1950s and into the 1970s, downtown Cincinnati was like a little slice of Manhatten, but without the subways.
A light rail subway would be a great way to get people downtown. It's a shame to waste that infrastructure.
I agree!
its kind of like the $50 million Transit Center that no one even knows is there most of the time.
in the 1950's there was talk of "hope" that the subway could really be built.. I guess it will never happen
When I was down there the floor was considerably flooded but overall the pipes and everything still looked intact and the fiber optic lines okay. I thought the craziest part was the bomb shelter. They can make it an electric scooter race track. Rail was never laid so be sure to walk on the wood and avoid touching anything.
I went in about 15 or more years ago. I walked the entire length. I went back recently to see if the entry was still open its locked tight.
Fascinating video. Thank you for sharing this with us.
Thank you for watching. Appreciate the positive feedback!
Very well done, useful information.
Thank you for taking the time to watch!
An Alstom "Citadis type" light rail system would be an adequate formula for a controlled budget.
Many cities in Europe operate this type of small partially underground network in the center. I am thinking of Rouen, Normandie a city of 500,000 inhabitants, for example.
In the construction of a rail network, the most expensive part is the infrastructure. In the case of Cincinnati, they already exist. Even if it is necessary to do a lot of upgrading, there is not the structural work inherent in burying the network.
I don't understand why a metropolitan area like Cincinnati can't fund a network that many smaller French cities can easily fund. Cincinnati's density is perfect for a network of this type.
I fully agree. I feel like light rail is something so many people of all kinds of backgrounds could get behind. But, since it is unlikely to provide a corporation with massive profits, it is unlikely to happen in this country.
Wow wonderful documentary & I hope soon the 5 subways can reopen and be given new life ounce again after 104 years
They could integrate this into a trail system (why not?) and have the entrances (stairways) converted into a long ramp (a steel one, which could be removed once realistic plans for rapid transit emerge), connecting the track beds with platforms and above. That's just one idea. LED lighting wouldn't be bad for the tunnels (you know, so trail users can see) and painting the tunnels (artists could be commissioned) would beautify it.
While I don't live in cincinati (i'm in toronto canada), this would be a nice repurpose. Though, ventilation would definitely need to be considered (likely wouldn't cost too much) with simple duct work (fans on both ends, pushing air inwards). Toronto has it's own roughed-in queen street subway that was abandoned and never completed (originally the downtown relief line, planned around the same time).
Wow! That is such a cool idea! Love it!
it would have been really great, when you had increased the volume level quite a bit.
I like how they showed footage of them going in just as the guy they were interviewing was complaining about people going in.
For the section where we walked in, we had permission from the city.
Do the police monitor the entrance I want to explore this with my friends??
Hi Shelly! I last entered the system in 2012, and had received prior permission to do so. I would imagine that they do monitor entry at some level, but I did not see anything indicating that they monitored the northmost entrance at the time I entered.
It was never opened because they ran out of money. Also took a long time cause they did not have special tools back then than now.
I can barely hear any of the audio
No hope. But thanks. Peace... 😎
it’s not up to these guys to lock up the tunnel! it’s not there tunnel
It would be cool if this could get converted for the boring tunnels that Elon has proposed. But that’s just wishful thinking.
Where’d you enter at?
I honestly can't remember the road (this was almost 10 years ago), but I remember that it was near a White Castle off of I-75.
Peter Kleinhenz I actually found it. I tried to get in the same entrance as you but it was locked.
@@kyledavis8035 Dang! That's a bummer that they locked it.
we do not need no subways ppl need to learn how to walk put ur car away put ur truck away and stop ridding the bus try walking to places man will you find out how heathy u can be just walking to place to place ppl got so lazy it's not funny
No, this subway system will never be completed. What would be the point? Cincinnati is done growing, and it would just be a waste of tax dollars.
You're probably right on it never being completed, but I'm not so sure that Cincinnati is done growing.
@@peterkleinhenz It's done growing. In fact, it's shrinking.
You are wrong about that. Cincinnati is growing quite a bit especially to the north east. I know that because I have family in Cincinnati.
Not unless there is a demand and increase in population. But Ohio has been loosing population for decade, so that means an eroding tax base that can pay for this project.
Someone contact Elon Musk. If Elon and his Boring company can build a useless 1.14 mile long tunnel in Hawthorne, California maybe he'd be interested in transforming an existing tunnel into something worthwhile. Looks like his Teslas or perhaps an electric bus would easily fit.
Elon would just put useless traffic in it. The operational costs of Teslas would add in more cost than just normal train
It just seems to be a matter of the political will to build a subway there. And the dollars too, of course.
Exactly. But the actual infrastructure is in surprisingly good shape, it seems!
@@peterkleinhenz Indeed, after about one hundred years. And subways around the world are being expanded too.
Yes fascinating..... but someone needs to tell that man those tunnels aren't reopening. Maybe post nuclear apocalypse by whoever finds them just like the men who found them 100 years ago.
They were definitely found not built 😅
It's time to call Elon Musk.