I was reading that studies exist on regional rail transit in Cincinnati. The one the is most interesting is also 3000+ pages. I pulled a few interesting pages out for you below.
First, they evaluate a route similar to mine. I am not sure why they want to go through Evendale when they could go through Glendale, Wyoming and Tri County. My route is in pink below. They also proposed a route through West Chester. This is wrong, transit is for urban walk-able places.
So what did they think? The route would get a 1000 riders a day. This is crazy. They only expect 9 riders a day to the Dayton Airport. I have not had a chance to dig in and find the methodology error yet. For more realistic ridership numbers, check our Chicago's Metra daily ridership.
With only 1,000 riders a day, their analysis concludes that the route would cost $54 a day per rider. If the ridership were something more realistic like 20,000 a day the operating cost would be $2.70 per rider. This is completely feasible.
It should be noted that the expected cost of these rail lines would be 1/5 the cost of an additional bridge. We should put it to voters - would you rather have five commuter rail lines or another bridge.
Finally - just because I thought it was pretty:
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