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Metro: All Service Operating, No Detours

Submitted by kkinley, Neighborhood Reporter
Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012, 11:03am
Metro: All Service Operating, No Detours

CINCINNATI, OH (FOX19) - Bitter cold temperatures in the tri-state will not delay Metro services on Tuesday.

All Metro service is operating. Passengers waiting for a bus should bundle up due to the cold temperatures.

For complete Metro service information:

* Customers can follow Metro snow information on Twitter at Twitter.com/cincinnatimetro and on Facebook athttp://www.facebook.com/GoMetro.

* Metro’s Detour Hotline at 632-7538 provides a recorded message, updated continuously from 5 a.m. to 11 p.m. on severe winter weather days to give the most current bus detour information.

* Metro’s website www.go-metro.com provides bus detour information and bus schedules. Frequently asked questions about Metro's service in winter weather  http://www.go-metro.com/snowfaqs.html.

* Metro’s call center at 621-4455 is open weekdays 6:30 a.m. to 6 p.m.

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Metro on limited holiday schedule on Monday

Submitted by Richard Todd, Reporter
Friday, December 30th, 2011, 10:28pm
Metro on limited holiday schedule on Monday

 

CINCINNATI (FOX19) - Metro buses will operate on a holiday schedule on Monday, January 2, 2012.

Since New Year's Day falls on Saturday, the holiday schedule slides to the 2nd.

Metro and Access, a service for people with disabilities will also be on the holiday/Sunday schedule on Monday, Jan. 2.

Metro and Access are operating regular Saturday service on New Year's Eve, Saturday, Dec. 31.

Metro administrative offices, the Metro call center and the Metro sales office will be closed Jan. 2.

For complete bus information, visit www.go-metro.com.

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Zoo Festival of Lights traffic forces temporary bus detours

Submitted by Richard Todd, Reporter
Thursday, December 29th, 2011, 6:46pm
Zoo Festival of Lights traffic forces temporary bus detours

 

CINCINNATI (FOX19) - As of 5:30 p.m. Thursday, there is so much traffic trying to get into the Cincinnati Zoo Festival of Lights that Metro buses are being forced to take a short detour.

Route 46 buses, which normally travel north and south on Dury Avenue on the east side of the Zoo, are instead using Wilson Avenue, which is one block further east.

The detour should not affect travel times much, but will prevent anyone getting on or off the bus on Dury or the blocks of Forest, Rockdale, and Hearne just east of the zoo.  The detour should be quickly dropped once most of the people visiting the Zoo get inside.

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Council committee to talk bike plan and casino zone next month

Submitted by Richard Todd, Reporter
Monday, December 26th, 2011, 5:00am
Council committee to talk bike plan and casino zone next month

CINCINNATI (FOX19) - Cincinnati City Council's Major Transportation and Infrastructure Projects Subcommittee will meet Wednesday, January 4, 2012, 10:30 a.m., at City Hall. This is a working session (not a public hearing) with an update and discussion of the city's Bike Plan and a discussion of Casino Area Infrastructure Improvements Design. 

the meeting will be in Committee Room B (Room 312). 

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Metro introduces six new hybrid buses, starting with a sneak peek on Dec. 16

Submitted by Cincinnati Metro
Wednesday, December 14th, 2011, 11:15am
Metro introduces six new hybrid buses, starting with a sneak peek on Dec. 16

CINCINNATI, OH (FOX19)  -- Metro has a big “green” gift for the community this holiday season… six new hybrid buses, with eight more on the way!

The first six new hybrids will go into service on Monday, Dec. 19 and will replace older diesel buses that are past their useful life. Eight more will be put into service by early 2012.

Three of the new hybrids will be on public display on Friday, Dec. 16 on Fifth Street, between Walnut and Main Street, from 10 - 11 a.m.

The new hybrid buses were purchased with funding from the Ohio Department of Transportation's Clean & Green and Next Generation programs, the Federal Transit Administration's Clean Fuels program, federal earmarks and the City of Cincinnati’s Transit Fund.

The 14 new hybrids will more than double Metro’s hybrid fleet.

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Lakeridge Road reopens at Winton Woods Lake

Submitted by Richard Todd, Reporter
Thursday, December 8th, 2011, 2:24am
Lakeridge Road reopens at Winton Woods Lake

SPRINGFIELD TOWNSHIP, HAMILTON COUNTY, OH (FOX19) - William W. Brayshaw,  the Hamilton County Engineer, has announced that that Lakeridge Road, between McKelvey and Leacrest Road in Springfield Township reopened to thru traffic.  

The road was closed when the lake level got high during Monday's and Tuesday's rains. 

At last count, Miles Road, which sits a number of feet lower on a creek off the western end of the lake, was still closed between Daly and Mill. 

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MADD hosts annual candlelight vigil

Submitted by Richard Todd, Reporter
Tuesday, November 29th, 2011, 7:54pm
MADD hosts annual candlelight vigil

SHARONVILLE, OH (FOX19) - MADD will hold its annual candlelight vigil for the victims and survivors of drunk driving crashes on Sunday, December 4, 2011 2:00 p.m. at the Sharonville Municipal Building at 10900 Reading Road.

The group says in Ohio in 2010, 431 people were unnecessarily and tragically killed and more than 8,000 people were injured in alcohol-related traffic crashes, with many of these victims from the Cincinnati area.  It is estimated that about one in three Americans will be involved in an alcohol-related crash at some time in their lives. Nationally, one person is killed approximately every 50 minutes by a driver with a blood alcohol concentration or BAC. of .08 or higher.

The MADD Candlelight Vigil is conducted annually to remember and honor those killed or injured in drunk driving crashes.

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