Pete
Jenior's Cincinnati Tour
Pete Jenior
East Suburbs | I-275/I-471
| Downtown Cincy | Taylor-Southgate/L+N/Dan
Beard Bridges
Roebling/Clay
Wade/Brent Space Bridges
Pete
(and friends) Fort Washington Way Report (PDF file, hosted
@ Georgia Tech)
Pete's
new page
Includes 1951 Cincinnati Master Plan scans plus various other
items including more photographs
On Saturday, March 10, 2001, I did some "unconventional"
roadgeeking in the Cincinnati area, primarily downtown. I say
"unconventional" because I took my trip solely for the
purpose of taking pictures. Many of my pictures deal with bridges
over the Ohio River; some of the information in my captions comes
from Cincinnati-Transit.net
(by Jake Mecklenborg) about Cincinnati’s bridges, tunnels,
and viaducts. I began my trip around 9 in the morning, knowing
that this would give me several hours of light traffic.
I also took many pictures near Fort
Washington Way (referred to as "FWW" from now on),
and I should begin with a brief history of that expressway. FWW
carries I-71 and US 50. The original FWW was built in the 1950’s,
and it gradually became a very wide mess with many unsafe ramps,
lane shifts, etc. The road was recently rebuilt. It was put into
a trench, and frontage roads were built to replace all of the
old entrance and exit ramps. At the time these pictures were taken,
the construction is mostly done, but some minor work remained.
The left side of the table below shows the north-south
streets of downtown Cincinnati, from east to west. The right side
shows an a sentence that can be used to remember the names
|
Street Name |
Word |
|
Broadway |
Big |
|
Sycamore |
Strong |
|
Main |
Men |
|
Walnut |
Will |
|
Vine |
Very |
|
Race |
Rarely |
|
Elm |
Eat |
|
Plum |
Pork |
Central Ave.
(Not Central Parkway) |
Chops |
Page created on December 14, 2002/last updated on February
10, 2005
Photos and text provided by Pete Jenior. Map provided by Navitech
and Yahoo.com. Web page designed by Sandor Gulyas
Questions and comments concerning the material listed here
can be directed to Pete
Jenior or Sandor Gulyas
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