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Nearly 100 years ago, the residents of Cincinnati, Ohio had a dream: to ease downtown congestion by traveling on underground rail. Fortunately, the city already owned a major form of right-of-way in the area: The Erie Canal. In the early 1900s, the canal had fallen into disuse and became an open sewer. To alleviate health concerns and the traffic problems, the city of Cincinnati planned to drain the waterway and build a subway system using the bed of the canal. The project was conceived in 1916 and would ultimately be stopped short after completing a total of 6 miles of infrastructure and 2.2 miles of underground tunnels.


By 1928, an extensive rapid transit system had been erected underneath the streets of Cincinnati, but was never put into use. A story of corruption, politics, and greed surrounds one of the most advanced transportation structures of the time.

Shown on PBS and at Cincinnati Museum Center, Cincinnati's Abandoned Subway features interviews with eight experts, modern day footage of the tunnels, and contains over 1,500 original construction photographs from the 1920s.

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