Re: Oklahoma Amtrak Expac Updates
Originally Posted by
bombermwc
Every stop you make, makes it take longer to get from point A to point B. Why not stop at the casino and Ardmore and Pauls Valley?
OK Denton, that can make sense because it's where the 35's go together and it's the last big stop on the north side of town. But really the best way to get ridership here is to make it as much of an "express" as possible and minimize all these stops. The overwhelming majority of the traffic is from the main end stops. Anyone that gets on in Ardmore can drive to Ft Worth faster than the train is going to get them there.
One way to compromise on this would be to have on-demand stops. For instance, a stop at say Thakerville Winston World Casino would only stop if there were pax to get on or off. This could be implemented at several stops along the route between FTW and OKC to help speed up the train. And, with 3 round trips in the works, we could make 1 train be a true Express train; OKC-FTW and FTW-OKC non-stop (perhaps the noon-lunch timing).
Here's my thoughts:
7:30am-11am OKC-FTW and FTW-OKC
11:30am-1pm OKC-FTW and FTW-OKC nonstop
9pm-12am OKC-FTW and FTW-OKC
These would run M-Sat, Sun would not use the lunch nonstop. This would require 2 trainsets to work but would give us great service. With the KS extensions it would look like:
12:30am-3:30am OKC-Newton via Wichita
4:00am-7:00am Newton-OKC via Wichita
and would connect trains to/from Kc and on to/from Chicago.
This would be fantastic service and give us somewhat of HSR with the express runs.
Oklahoma City, the RENAISSANCE CITY!
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