Cincinnati Subway Fallout Shelter

In 2002 there was vote on a light rail system called metromoves which would have utilised the tunnels however it was voted down.

Cincinnati subway fallout shelter. None of the proposals has come to fruition. The cincinnati subway is a set of incomplete derelict tunnels and stations for a rapid transit system beneath the streets of cincinnati ohio. In 1963 during a bombing drill an enquirer. Inside it he saws decontamination showers and bunks along the walls.

Nuclear weapon target map for ohio fema 196september 1990. But it had problems even back then. Nuclear survival in ohio. After you have looked at this map look at the information for ohio that follows it.

Station is the first stop north of race street. The abandoned cincinnati subway station at liberty street was converted into a shelter designed to hold 3000 people. The queen city didnt know what to do with its 6000000 hole in the ground and there were mammoth obstacles in its path. This station is infamously well known for cincinnatis attempt to retrofit it as a faux fallout shelter during the 1950s and 1960s.

A little more than two miles of unused subway tunnel lay beneath the streets of cincinnati. One of the abandoned stations according to koenig had been converted into a fallout shelter for use during the cold war. Construction began in the early 1900s as an upgrade to the cincinnati streetcar system but was abandoned due to escalating costs the collapse of funding amidst political bickering and the great depression during the 1920s and 193. For instance the us.

Station is completely sealed over at the edge of the platform. The station was planned in 1916 but lacked funding to complete. General services administration friday will open bids in chicago on proposals to convert the systems underground liberty street station into a prototype community fallout shelter one of the first in the nation. Fencing and lights were installed during this time period.

Over the years there has been talk about different uses for the tunnels including a bottling plant a fallout shelter an underground mall and a night club. This link will take you back to the index of all the states. This station is infamously well known for cincinnatis attempt to retrofit it as a faux fallout shelter during the 1950s and 1960s under the false pretenses that a cincinnati was important enough to even be a target and b the entire population would be able to survive together in a tunnel with a few boxes of survival biscuits for longer than about 10 minutes. Cincinnatis hole in the ground the unfinished rapid transit subway and surface system that never saw a rail may really be an ace in the hole.

Although it is only a little over 2 miles in length it is the largest abandoned subway tunnel system in the united states. The cincinnati subway was going nowhere financially but the light at the end of the subway tunnel was not about to fade out. The station is notorious for being retrofitted to be a fallout shelter capable of holding the entire population of cincinnati.