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I'm more convinced every day that OKC needs a real streetcar system linking a bunch of the burgeoning urban areas together: downtown, Bricktown, deep-deuce, A-Alley, Midtown, Paseo, Western, Chesapeake Village, strolling in and out of the old neighborhoods as you go.
What Does It Cost? We could do all that for probably less than $100 million and people would ride the absolute shite out of it. Chesapeake might even drop a few mil to extend the line up their way. |
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Installing rail lines and power is an incredibly expensive, permanent proposition at a time that tax receipts simply don't exist to pay for them. Also, OKC has never been a mass transit-committed town, so we'd be creating a permanent - and substantial - budget item that no-one can afford. I recall that Classen Boulevard was initially created as a trolley line serving then-remote suburban neighborhoods, and it was powered by the Belle Isle power station (demolished in the 1970s I believe). Who's got money to do that again?
More realistic options: Efficient - Hybrid or CNG busses. Cute - More of the trolley shuttles that we have. |
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