Cincinnati Light Rail Avoids Growth Areas
Proponents of urban rail systems often imply that continued metropolitan growth will increase the need for such systems. Usually, however, metropolitan population and employment growth is concentrated in outer areas that will receive little or no urban rail service.
This is the case, for example, in Cincinnati, where a proposed light rail system would focus on downtown, which has a declining share of metropolitan employment, with virtually no service to locations outside the I-275 Beltway.
From 1990 to 2030, OKI, the regional planning organization, projects that:
97 percent of population growth will be outside I-275
80 percent of employment growth will be outside I-275.
Complete Data
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1990 |
2030 |
Change |
Share of Change |
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POPULATION |
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Inside I-275 |
957,971 |
975,524 |
17,553 |
3.0% |
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Outside I-275 |
786,151 |
1,355,776 |
569,625 |
97.0% |
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Total |
1,744,122 |
2,331,300 |
587,178 |
100.0% |
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EMPLOYMENT |
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Inside I-275 |
556,132 |
623,856 |
67,724 |
20.4% |
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Outside I-275 |
289,038 |
553,044 |
264,006 |
79.6% |
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Total |
845,170 |
1,176,900 |
331,730 |
100.0% |
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Source: Calculated from data in OKI 2030 Plan, Tables 5-11 and 5-13.. |
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