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Potential Benefits to Sky Loop Card Buyers, Stakeholders and Community
Partners:
The Downtown Office/Retail Worker (Sky Loop Card Buyer)
- $50.00 per month buys you a Sky Loop Card.
- With your Sky Loop Card, park in new stadium garages,
Covington’s NK Convention Center garage, or Newport’s Aquarium garage
at $45.00 per month. Save up to $85.00 per month over centrally located
downtown garages’ monthly parking rates (up to $135.00 per
month).
- Take the Sky Loop from your parking garage directly to your place of
work; if your building has a Sky Loop station, then the entire trip is direct,
quick (10 minutes or less), and out of the weather. Reverse the process going
home.
- Unlimited Sky Loop Card usage for your $50.00 monthly fee means you
can go anywhere, anytime, on the system. Visit Sak’s on your lunch hour;
go to the stadium for a ball game; tour the Underground Railroad Freedom
Center; see the latest at the Aquarium or Newport on the Levee. If it has a Sky
Loop station, you’ll be there in 3-10 minutes!
- Are you an attorney, CPA, or other professional who now walks blocks
every day between downtown offices? As buildings you visit get stations,
you’ll be able to zip there on the Sky Loop!
Downtown Residents (Sky Loop Card Buyer)
- Can you just imagine unlimited access to all of downtown and the
riverfront, on both sides of the river, for $50.00 a month?
- No need to ever drive again in the downtown area! No need to hunt for
parking spots!
- Get around downtown anytime, day or night, in the safety of your
private Sky Loop car!
Downtown Visitors and Tourists (Sky Loop Pass Buyer)
- You are visiting the city, will be here 3-7 days, and want to visit
the sites in the area, dine downtown or on the river, but walking is a
turn-off.
- The Sky Loop offers a 3-day unlimited pass for $15.00 or a 7-day
unlimited pass for $25.00. It’s good for the car, so if you have one or
two others with you, you split the cost.
- You're only here a day, and want to try the Sky Loop? You can buy a
one day pass for $6.00 (our minimum is a $2.00 one-way ticket) .
Downtown Major Office Building Owner (Station
Stakeholder)
- Build your own Sky Loop station, and all your tenants’ employees
and visitors will get to your building from anywhere on the Sky Loop route
easier, out of the weather, and quicker. Voila! You just improved your
location! Worth some $ in better occupancy or rental rates, right?
- Are your tenants complaining about high downtown parking rates? Now
they can park in the new stadium, Newport or Covington garages for
$45/mo!
- Have you been losing tenants to suburban locations with free parking?
The Sky Loop won’t make downtown parking free, but it will reduce the cost
by up to two thirds!
- Not wild about DCI's plan to demolish the Sky Walk system? The Sky
Loop system is designed to connect with the Sky Walk system.
Downtown Major Retailer (Station Stakeholder)
- Sales weak or stagnant from the downtown office worker because they
don’t have time to walk and shop during the day? Build your own Sky Loop
station, and they’ll zip there from their office building’s station
in 3-10 minutes, out of the weather! More convenience=more visits=more
sales!
- Lost the suburban shopper due to the inconvenience of finding parking
and the cost thereof? Funny how suburbanites won’t pay $5.00 to park for
two hours, but they’ll drive 20 miles to a suburban fashion mall! They
perceive safety in downtown garages as a problem too…But with the Sky
Loop, they’ll park in a safer, cheaper garage, then take their private Sky
Loop car direct to your store. Want to reimburse that $2.00 per trip Sky Loop
charge? Not a bad idea!
The Newport Aquarium/Newport on the Levee (Station
Stakeholder)
- 4th and 5th streets between I-75 in Covington
and the Aquarium/Newport on the Levee clogged with traffic? Fear you’re
losing potential customers off the interstate? Build one station at the
Aquarium and another at Newport on the Levee, then direct these folks to park
anywhere else on the Sky Loop system, and take the Sky Loop to the Aquarium or
Newport on the Levee! Maybe include the $4.00 price of the round trip ride in
your ticket price?
- Do you own that 2,000 space parking garage in the Aquarium and
Newport on the Levee? Do you have lots of vacant spaces during the day and
during the week? Fill that garage with downtown office and retail workers,
using your Sky Loop station in the garage to get to their place of work in
Cincinnati!
Downtown Hotel (Station Stakeholder)
- Visitors like everything about your hotel except the difficulties of
getting around downtown? Too far from one of the convention centers to walk?
Can’t get a cab around downtown? Build your own Sky Loop station, and
everything is within 3-10 minutes, out of the weather!
- Hard to compete with other hotels, that have a better location for
your visitors? With a Sky Loop station, you’re now in the Sky Loop
system!
- Like to rent rooms to Reds or Bengals fans, but just too far away to
walk? The Sky Loop will get ‘em there quick!
- Maybe this would work better if your visitor didn’t have to pay
the Sky Loop fare? Well, make it free, and include the fare in your room
rates.
- More convenience for visitors=better occupancy=better room rates=more
income.
Cincinnati Convention Center (Station Stakeholder)
- Need to spend $325 million to expand, but not sure how much this will
help get the major conventions? A Sky Loop station will give you an edge over
every other city in the world! Where else could your visitors get to or from
your convention center from anywhere in the downtown area in 3-10
minutes?
N. Ky. Convention Center (Station Stakeholder)
- Want to join with the Cincinnati Convention Center on some meetings?
With a Sky Loop station in the garage across the street, your visitors can get
to their Sky Loop station in 3-10 minutes!
- Your visitors want to visit the Aquarium or Newport on the Levee, but
don’t want to fight the traffic? The Sky Loop will take them there in 3
minutes! Or a Reds game? 5 minutes!
Cincinnati Reds or Cincinnati Bengals (Station
Stakeholder)
- Hard to get fans in those seats on rainy days, ‘cause they
won’t walk from any of the garages or lots where they have to park? Build
Sky Loop stations around all sides of your Paul Brown Stadium and Great
American Ballpark, and fans can go direct to the station nearest their seat!
Does this kind of convenience spell more fans? You bet!
Underground Railroad Freedom Center (Station
Stakeholder)
- Want to get all those other tourists in town to come visit you too?
Build a Sky Loop station, and they’ll be there in 3-10
minutes!
Hamilton County (Station Stakeholder)
- Just spent $145,000,000 on 7,800 new parking spaces between the Paul
Brown Stadium and the Great American Ballpark? Now who will use those spaces on
the 277 days when there is no game? Build Sky Loop stations within an easy walk
of all spaces, and you’ll get a lot more of those downtown office workers
to buy monthly parking, and increase your revenue!
Kenton County (Community Partner)
- You spent big $ on the 1,600 space NK Convention Center garage, which
sits half full most days because there is no convention in session. Build a Sky
Loop station, and you’ll get those downtown Cincinnati workers who want to
save money on monthly parking, and take the Sky Loop to the station in their
building where they work!
- See lots of other benefits to Kenton County from the Sky Loop system?
Less traffic on the downtown road system would be one; better air quality from
fewer cars would be another; an exciting new public transit system that exists
nowhere else in the world would be nice too.
Campbell County (Community Partner)
- Like to see the Campbell County Court House connected to the Sky
Loop? A station will certainly be within one block, at the Millennium
Monument.
- How about a future extension of the Sky Loop to NKU? This is
possible, if light rail doesn’t get funded.
City of Covington (Community Partner)
- Think there might be lots more development along the route of the Sky
Loop? We do too.
- Better traffic flow from fewer cars circulating the downtown area
looking for a place to park will benefit everyone.
- Wondering where you will put the new Ohio bridge that light rail
needs? Maybe if the Sky Loop is built, and connects at the intermodal center,
then light rail in NKY won’t be needed. We view the Sky Loop as a backup
plan, in case this problem and other problems with light rail in NKY can’t
be solved.
- Not crazy about the CALSC plan for a second bridge to Newport at 4th
or 5th Streets? This wouldn't be necessary to carry the Sky Loop.
- Residents don’t like LRT on 12th Street, Madison
Ave., or elsewhere on downtown streets? An extension of the Sky Loop in a later
phase could be a better plan, as it wouldn't take a lane of
traffic.
- Want to get all those unsightly overhead utility lines placed
underground on downtown streets? This cost might be included in the "local
match" portion of funding for the Sky Loop-which means FTA would indirectly pay
50% of the cost wherever the Sky Loop runs!
City of Newport (Community Partner)
- Think there might be lots more development along the route of the Sky
Loop? We do too.
- Better traffic flow from fewer cars circulating the downtown area
looking for a place to park will benefit everyone.
- Too late to get the light rail spur in Newport as part of the I-71
Corridor first phase? What if the voters turn it down? Doesn't the Sky Loop
make more sense for the circulator anyway?
- Still investing in parking garages for tourist attractions, but know
they’ll be underutilized during the day and during the week, especially in
the cold weather months? Build a Sky Loop station in or near those garages, and
get those downtown Cincinnati workers to park and ride!
- Want to get all those unsightly overhead utility lines placed
underground on downtown streets? This cost might be included in the "local
match" portion of funding for the Sky Loop-which means FTA would indirectly pay
50% of the cost wherever the Sky Loop runs!
Kentucky Transportation Cabinet (Community Partner)
- Fear you’ll be asked to fund a new $45 million bridge for light
rail? Don't want to share a lane or two of traffic on Clay Wade Bailey with
light rail? The Sky Loop is a better alternative. Our Bridge Committee believes
the Sky Loop is light enough to use any of our existing bridges, is small
enough to fit on all three river bridges, and won't take or even share a lane
of traffic.
- Reduced maintenance on state roads from reduced auto traffic is a big
plus to the Sky Loop.
City of Cincinnati (Community Partner)
- Fear downtown office demand is getting weaker, in part due to the
high cost and inconvenience of downtown parking? Was the Delta deal a wake-up
call? Think about all of the above, and how the Sky Loop would
help.
- Unsure how to help downtown retail? See above, for how the Sky Loop
would help.
- Tired of subsidizing downtown hotels, and fear these hotels
won’t get stronger anytime soon? Expansion of the Cincinnati Convention
Center will help, but so will the Sky Loop.
- Want to really connect downtown with the riverfront? The Sky
Loop will do it better than anything else!
Ohio Dept. of Transportation (Community Partner)
- Reduced maintenance on state roads from reduced auto traffic is a big
plus to the Sky Loop.
- Want to see light rail get more riders, to take more cars off the
roads? The Sky Loop will add appeal, to all commuters who land at the
intermodal center downtown, and then need to get to work. Riding the Sky Loop,
with cars waiting for you at the intermodal center, sure beats
walking!
SORTA & TANK (Community Partners)
- Signed a joint operating agreement to run the light rail system, when
built? The Sky Loop will get LRT many more riders coming downtown, as a
connector to their places of work.
- Like to get more traffic off downtown streets, to make busses flow
easier? The Sky Loop should attract 20% or more of downtown commuters,
tourists, conventioneers and residents, on a regular basis. Wouldn’t this
help?
Federal Transit Administration (Community Partner)
- Got a $1,040M investment in light rail under consideration for the
I-71 Corridor? Got a similar investment in the wings for I-75? Both will go to
the intermodal center downtown, right? The Sky Loop will get LRT many more
riders coming downtown, as a connector to their places of work. This means many
more riders for light rail, as it becomes far more convenient on the downtown
end.
- If the Sky Loop works here, isn’t it likely to work in dozens of
other cities with similar downtown parking problems?
- If the Sky Loop helps get commuters off the roads, especially tied
into light rail from suburbs, won’t this be a huge savings for the
interstate system? More LRT riders mean fewer drivers clogging the
expressways.
- If FTA’s share of capital costs for the Sky Loop is 50% or less,
and no operating subsidies are required, isn’t this a great deal for a
system that has so much potential?
Forward Quest
Sky Loop Committee
Rev. 6/5/01
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