The Alliance for Regional Transit
The Alliance for Regional Transit is a non-profit that was created for Cincinnati to advocate for an improved system of regional mobility, with a focus of car-competitive public transportation, including rail transit. By the year 2020, the Ohio-Kentucky-Indiana Regional Council of Governments (OKI) has estimated that many portions of the regional freeway system in Greater Cincinnati will fail to move people and goods due to increased congestion (Alliance for Regoinal Transit n.d.). The Alliance has proposed a network consisting of a total of six rail lines represented below, to complement and reduce congestion in the region's highways and interstates.
How This Plan Moves Through Kentucky
This plan specifies two light rail lines that move through Kentucky, and those lines move from downtown Cincinnati to the Cincinnati/Kentucky Metropolitan Airport and Northern Kentucky University / Alexandria. This is different than most of the other plans reviewed, as most provide connectivity to Florence as a spur off of the line running to the Airport.