54% of all jobs within the entire City of Cincinnati are in Uptown and Downtown, the two areas the initial phase of the streetcar will connect.
From the Go Cincinnati Report:
- Downtown accounted for 34% of all jobs in the City in 2005 and has the highest average annual wage, followed by Uptown at 20% of the City’s employment. With more than 50% of the City’s jobs it is clear that Cincinnati’s economic growth strategy should continue to focus on these two areas
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January 31, 2009 at 11:42 am
That’s an impressive number and gives a clear rationale as to why the system is being started in these two areas (economies of scale).