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Metro briefs Mt. Healthy council on Bus Rapid Transit plan, projects service by 2028
Summary
Metro told the Mt. Healthy City Council its Bus Rapid Transit project is in design, aims for construction in 2027 and passenger service in 2028, would run every 10 minutes from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m., and is expected to cut peak trip times by at least 25%.
Metro officials gave the Mt. Healthy City Council a detailed update on a planned Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) corridor that would extend from downtown Cincinnati to Mount Healthy and begin passenger service in 2028.
The presentation by Sharon Lacombe, senior director for bus rapid transit at Metro, said the two corridors being advanced in staged sequence are the Redding Corridor (first) and the Hamilton alignment; final design work is scheduled through 2026, construction in 2027 and operations beginning in 2028. "The service will be every 10 minutes from 6AM until 11PM," Lacombe said, and Metro projects peak trip times will fall by at least 25% (for example, a trip that currently takes more than an hour in the afternoon peak could fall to about 45 minutes).
Why it matters: Metro said the project aims to increase capacity without adding drivers or vehicles for every existing route, promote transit-oriented redevelopment by building permanent stations, and improve accessibility. Because federal funds are…
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