UC-Sustainability Presents Lecture Series on the Cincinnati Streetcar Project

Please join UC|sustainability for a lecture exploring how the Cincinnati Streetcar will create dynamic transportation improvements that will soon connect businesses, neighborhoods and students to many new opportunities in Cincinnati. This lecture will provide project construction updates as well as technical information relating to the new streetcar design and greater implications for a creating a regional transit system for the Greater Cincinnati Area.

Speakers will include:

John Schneider

Director

Alliance for Regional Transit

John Schneider was a founding member of Downtown Cincinnati Inc., served as its first transportation committee chairman and advised it on riverfront and transportation issues for many years. Schneider proposed and helped to advance the reconfiguration of Interstate 71 (Fort Washington Way) through downtown Cincinnati. Later, he proposed a new riverfront home for the Cincinnati Reds at the southeast corner of Second and Main. When proponents of an alternative site gathered signatures to place the ballpark-location issue to the ballot, Schneider led the campaign that resulted in Hamilton County voters choosing the riverfront site for the new Great American Ball Park.

Chris Eillerman

Assistant to the City Manager

City of Cincinnati

Chris Eilerman is an Assistant to the City Manager for the City of Cincinnati and serves as the City’s Streetcar Project Manager. He previously served as Special Projects Coordinator in the Office of the City Manager, where he was responsible for managing the City’s federal and state lobbying program, served as part of the City’s development team for the $600 million Banks riverfront development project, and served as Findlay Market Manager. In addition, he was responsible for managing a $2.9 million departmental budget and holds certifications as both an Economic Development and Housing Development Finance Professional from the National Development Council.

Valerie Robbins

Environmental Planner

Parsons Brinckerhoff

Valerie Robbins is a Lead Planner with consultant Parsons Brinckerhoff. She has been with Parsons Brinckerhoff for the past 6 years. A 2000 graduate of Ball State University’s Urban Planning and Development program, she has been involved in project research, technical analysis and both leading and assisting with transportation and land use planning, transportation strategy development, and public involvement initiatives in Ohio and around the country. Part of the consultant project team, she was a primary author of the Cincinnati Streetcar Environmental Assessment document that outlined the benefits and impacts of the streetcar on the City of Cincinnati

FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.

Please Join us.

The Cincinnati Streetcar will be an electric mode of transportation operating in its first phase on a 4-mile loop connecting key communities in the city’s urban core. Running up to 18 hours a day and 365 days a year, the streetcar will be a vital complement to the city's existing Metro and other transportation systems.

The vision remains to create a streetcar system that spurs development and is part of a larger multimodal transportation system that links areas outside the downtown core and throughout the region. The streetcar system is envisioned to go from the river to the Zoo, university and hospital area in Uptown.