Editing Cincinnati Subway (section)

===Planning===
In 1910, [[Henry Thomas Hunt]] spearheaded plans for a new rapid transit system.{{sfnp|Singer|2003|p=35}} The next year, City Council convinced the [[Ohio State Legislature]] to lease the city's portion of the canal for use as a boulevard and subway system.{{sfnp|Singer|2003|p=17}} The city hired experts who had worked on Boston's and Chicago's rapid transit systems to research the best possible implementation for Cincinnati's rapid transit system.{{sfnp|Singer|2003|p=36}} The result were four "Schemes", or proposed routes. The chosen plan—Scheme IV, modification H—looped around the city hitting the central suburbs of [[St. Bernard, Ohio|St. Bernard]] and [[Norwood, Ohio|Norwood]], the eastern suburbs of [[Oakley, Ohio|Oakley]] and [[Hyde Park, Ohio|Hyde Park]], and then returned into downtown.{{sfnp|Singer|2003|p=36}}

In 1916, City Council authorized a bond issue of $6 million with an interest rate of 4.25 percent,<ref>{{cite news |title=... Bonds To Pay 4 1/4% Interest |newspaper=[[Cincinnati Post]] |page=12 |date=June 17, 1916 }}</ref>{{sfnp|Hawkins|2016}} and then held a plebiscite on the rapid transit plan.<ref name="April_3_1926_Enquirer" /> The bond was supposed to fund a {{convert|16|mi|km}} subway system stretching across Cincinnati, which would, in turn, slow or even stop the decline of Cincinnati's population at the time. One advertisement in support of the subway proclaimed, "Every newspaper in the city is for the Loop, and practically all of the Business organizations as well as the Trades Unions."{{sfnp|Hawkins|2016}} On April 17, 1917, Cincinnati citizens voted in favor of using the bond for a Rapid Transit system, 30,165 to 14,286.<ref name="April_3_1926_Enquirer" /> The system would be built as a below grade, at grade and [[elevated railway]], with the Underground portion to be built in the [[Miami and Erie Canal]] bed through downtown, and then extend through the [[Mill Creek (Ohio)|Mill Creek]] valley to [[St. Bernard, Ohio|St. Bernard]], [[Norwood, Ohio|Norwood]], [[Oakley, Cincinnati|Oakley]].{{sfnp|Hawkins|2016}}