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Old 08-04-2008, 08:31 PM
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There's a trolley just like that in Moore parked in front of the Old School on Broadway. It came from Minneapolis and has very few miles on it.
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Old 08-05-2008, 12:13 AM
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Default Re: Downtown Trolley system continues to draw complaints

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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Old 08-05-2008, 12:20 AM
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Let's start our own. Get a few CNG powered buses, and run the stops ourselves.
Rickshaws maybe..
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Old 08-05-2008, 12:48 AM
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Old 08-05-2008, 10:36 AM
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Bicycle taxis!
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Old 08-05-2008, 11:01 AM
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If they do not like to ride the Wanna Be Trollys then let them find another means of travel case closed... Next.
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Old 08-05-2008, 12:21 PM
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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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Old 08-05-2008, 12:40 PM
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Nope put in trolly tracks and reinlist the interurban like it used to be !!!
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Old 08-05-2008, 02:10 PM
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Belle Isle was demolished just 8 or 9 years ago. If it were still alive today, we might have a sweet adaptive reuse project in the works.
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Old 08-05-2008, 02:36 PM
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Don't get me started on Belle Isle...

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Nope put in trolly tracks and reinlist the interurban like it used to be !!!
For the first time, I agree with the troll.
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