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A year ago, Cincinnati committed to mostly buying electric vehicles ... (WVXU)

Cincinnati officials promised to only buy electric vehicles for the city fleet, as long as that option was available. Nearly a year later, every purchase ...

The first draft of the new plan has a more ambitious goal: 100% carbon neutrality by 2050. Kroner says the city is also working to expand electric vehicle charging infrastructure. The city policy has a hierarchy for purchasing: electric is top priority, followed by hybrid and alternative fuels. The current version, from 2018, set a goal to reduce carbon emissions 80% city-wide by 2050. "A cooperative is essentially us joining in with other governments to basically have bigger buying power," Long says. "So this is a vehicle in which we can purchase vehicles."

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Cincinnati streetcar reached record ridership last year. Take a look (Cincinnati.com)

The Downtown streetcar, which transports riders on a 3.6-mile loop between Over-the-Rhine and The Banks, reached an all-time annual ridership record in 2022, ...

The city took over daily operations of the Connector from the Southwestern Ohio Regional Transit Authority in January 2020. A total of 846,622 passengers rode the Connector last year, which is more than the previous record of 571,421 set in 2017. “It is consistent with the monthly records we hit throughout 2022.” [partial collapse of the Davis Furniture building](https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2023/01/02/over-the-rhine-building-collapse-what-happened-to-davis-furniture/69661652007/) in Over-the-Rhine forcing the streetcar to [temporarily stop some service](https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2022/06/17/metro-offer-free-busing-along-streetcar-route-starting-monday/7663416001/). [single best month for ridership was October](https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/politics/2022/11/08/cincinnati-connector-streetcar-october-sets-passenger-record/69627401007/), when [Blink Cincinnati took place](https://www.cincinnati.com/story/entertainment/2022/10/14/blink-cincinnati-guide-what-to-see/69561594007/), as 103,700 passengers used the streetcar. [the Connector](https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2022/06/14/cincinnati-streetcar-how-doing-and-whats-next/7471576001/) last year than ever before.

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Krohn Conservatory: 'Quickly aging' Cincinnati icon may get ... (Cincinnati.com)

Krohn Conservatory: 'Quickly aging' Cincinnati icon may get upgrades, possible restaurant ... Krohn Conservatory welcomes visitors to its front doors in Eden Park ...

17 for the crew of “Wise Guys” to shoot a scene where the character played by Robert De Niro participates in a rose show. He hopes rising revenue will allow Krohn to hold the line on admission prices. In 1992, a parks master plan called for improvements to the 25,624-square-foot structure. Longer hours and new programming are adding to annual revenues, already highest of all park properties. Moving the closing time to 8 p.m. House expects close to $2 million for the year ending June 30, beating the budgeted $1.7 million. But House only likes to rent during the day if the booking fee exceeds average daily ticket sales. (The building's current value, according to the Hamilton County Auditor's office, is just more than $628,000.) Fixing all Cincinnati park assets in fair or poor condition would cost $50 million, according to a “It’s wildly inefficient,” House said. The coming study, to begin this fall, will help identify exactly what needs done, Merz noted. Now, they are aiming to hire a consultant to study Krohn’s needs.

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