Editing Cincinnati Subway (section)

=== Proposed route: description from 1916 bond campaign ===

#[[File:Rout map.jpg|thumb]]Follows canal bed from Walnut Street to Carthage Pike.
## Exceptions – Marshall Avenue, Bates Avenue and bend south of Ludlow Avenue, for the purpose of eliminating curves in canal bed that are so sharp as to be impossible to operate at high speed.
# Subway: Fourth and Walnut Street to Brighton.
# Open subway: Brighton to Bates Avenue.
# Open cut or fill: Bates Avenue to Crawford Station.
## Necessary covered section for approaches to Boulevard.
### Sassafras Street.
### Brashers Street.
### Ludlow Avenue.
# Open surface line in canal bed: Crawford Station to Carthage Pike, except at Mitchell Avenue, where it leaves canal bed and comes level to Mitchell Avenue.
# Street surface Line: Carthage Pike, Tennessee Avenue, Maple Avenue, Smith Road.
# Open cut or fill along Duck Creek Road on privet right of way: Oakley Station to Lake Avenue ravine (a short distance west of Potomac Avenue).
# Open cut or fill in Lake Avenue ravine from Lake Avenue ravine to Owls Nest Park.
# Subway under Owl's Nest Park and Madison Road.
# Tunnel under Beechwood Subdivision (Wurlitzer Property).
# Concrete trestle along Ohio River bluff to Eden Park Reservoir.
# Steel elevated on Third, Martin, Pearl and Walnut Streets.
# Passes from elevated to subway between Third and Fourth Street on Walnut Street.
# Rapid Transit with no grade crossing from Oakley Station to Crawford Station by the way of downtown district.
# High speed surface line from Crawford Station to Oakley Station on north side.
<ref name=":0">Inter-Urban Entrance and Rapid Transit Railway for the City of Cincinnati 1916. Pamphlet: Interurban – Rapid Transit Bond Campaign Committee.</ref>