Cincinnati Challenge to Sprawl:
Reports and Data
SIERRA CLUB SPRAWL REPORTS
TRAFFIC CONGESTION
According to the Texas
Transportation Institute, traffic congestion in greater
Cincinnati has increased 520% from 1982-1997 (from 5 hours per
person per year to 31 hours per person per year). From 1982-1994,
the congestion increase was 200%, the 2nd largest increase in the
nation over that period. They estimate that this costs $515 million
per year in wasted time and fuel ($55,370 =49 million gallons x
$1.13 per gallon). $515 million wasted on traffic congestion
annually is equal to building a stadium a year!
Find out how and why highway
and road expansion WORSENS traffic problems.
New
& Wider Highways Worsen Cincinnati's Traffic Gridlock And Sprawl:
New Study Says New Highways Cause, Not Relieve, Up To 43% Of
Tri-State Traffic Jams
"Why
Are The Roads So Congested" says that in greater Cincinnati
there was a 200% increase in road growth compared to pop growth from
1982-1997 (12 increase in pop, 24% in new roads).
TRI-STATE FARMLAND DESTRUCTION DATA
According Hamilton County Regional Planning's
April 1999 report "Agricultural
Land Use in the Cincinnati CMSA" 477,000 acres (30%) of
farmland was converted to development from 1969-1997. In SW Ohio
counties (Brown, Butler, Clermont, Hamilton and Warren), 288,00
acres (33%) were destroyed, while 141,400 acres (24%) of farmland in
N. KY counties (Boone, Campbell, Gallatin, Grant, Kenton, and
Pendleton) were destroyed by sprawl.
The report also says that in the 1950s, 1970s,
and 1990s, agricultural land in the region "was being lost at a
rate that approached 23,000 acres/year."
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