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Written on the water drums in orange stencilled letters were instructions for 'reuse as a commode.'
Beneath the ultra-respectable streets of Cincinnati, Ohio lies a half-formed subway system, an echoing, dripping monument to century-old urban planning. With a bit of historical background to light the way, we will follow a group of intrepid explorers into this urban cave.
By the mid-1880s, the Miami and Erie Canal was a stagnant and dangerous relic of an outmoded form of transport; Cincinnati needed a rapid transit system to bring people in and out of the city from its rapidly-growing suburbs. Following decades of debate and fund-raising, by 1920 the canal was ...
Source: HighBeam Research, The Cincinnati subway: exploring the subterranean queen city.