Toledo, OH — University Link
Rail Transit Online, January 2005
The Metropolitan Area Council of Governments is
studying a proposal for a rail transit link — probably a streetcar — to
connect the downtown area and the University of Toledo. The route would
include parts of Monroe Street and either Dorr or Bancroft streets and it
could also serve the Toledo Museum of Art and Toledo Hospital, depending on
the route selected. Public meetings on the plan are being held during
December as part of the $100,000 study, 20 percent of which is being funded
by the university. “It is sound economics to connect the student population
base in and around campus with the downtown area,” university President Dan
Johnson told the Toledo Blade. Metropolitan council Vice President
for Transportation David Dysard said the streetcar would help with the
development and redevelopment of the city’s core. The university line could
also connect with the proposed Westside Technology Corridor, another transit
concept using an existing rail right-of-way that would link the university
with the Medical College of Ohio, Owens Community College and the Port
Alexis Industrial Park. |
|
