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NAACP wants to block Cincinnati streetcars

By Associated Press

CINCINNATI: Local NAACP leaders have no desire to see streetcars in Cincinnati.

Cincinnati chapter president Christopher Smitherman says the city project shouldn't take priority over repairing streets and helping neighborhood business districts. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has begun a petition drive to change the city's charter to block the streetcar project.

City officials are still trying to raise enough funds for a $100 million first phase of the project.

The NAACP also joined other groups last year to defeat a proposed county jail tax, and earlier this year to successfully oppose a plan to use red-light cameras at Cincinnati intersections.


Information from the Cincinnati Enquirer, http://www.enquirer.com.

CINCINNATI: Local NAACP leaders have no desire to see streetcars in Cincinnati.

Cincinnati chapter president Christopher Smitherman says the city project shouldn't take priority over repairing streets and helping neighborhood business districts. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has begun a petition drive to change the city's charter to block the streetcar project.

City officials are still trying to raise enough funds for a $100 million first phase of the project.

The NAACP also joined other groups last year to defeat a proposed county jail tax, and earlier this year to successfully oppose a plan to use red-light cameras at Cincinnati intersections.


Information from the Cincinnati Enquirer, http://www.enquirer.com.



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big guy in ga
Suwanee, ga

Posted 12:41 PM, 12/24/2008

Someone needs to explain too me how mass transit improvements is not helping a city low income residents who need mass transit? The NAACP is off base on this one.


UrbanRenaissace

Posted 01:41 PM, 12/24/2008

Read the whole article. It is simple.

"Cincinnati chapter president Christopher Smitherman says the city project shouldn't take priority over repairing streets and helping neighborhood business districts."

Just like around here, the priorities from politician to politician are different. Some politicians run around on their wives and are untreated alcoholics, and others do their jobs without drama.


wayne

Posted 05:25 PM, 12/24/2008


What-you can't ticket people for running red lights? Are the camera's biased toward color? Only the NAACP!!!!!














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