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Oklahoma City studying streetcar proposals
knowing oklahoma the street cars will probably be pulled by horses.
At least Oklahoma City is being somewhat reasonable with a 1% sales tax. In the Chicago suburbs, they rape you with a 25 cent tax on each gallon of fuel. Thankfully, there are offshore fuel dealers for those of us who don’t buy into supporting welfare railroads.
Greg, you don’t have any idea about what you are saying. I lived in Oklahoma for the last four years and Texas the rest of my life. We are not backwards as you suggest. As a matter of fact, especially Texas, we are in better economic shape than the rest of the country.
Of course i’m biased, in that I’m from Oklahoma, but I would take the City a thousand times over Chicago. This would be perfect if I could ride the streetcar to the stockyards and get me a steak and bottle of Double Duece…
Where is the money coming from to build it, and then to operate it? Who is ultimately going to pay for it?
Chicago’s surface transportation infrastructure is seriously inadequate to the area’s rush hour traffic demands, as anybody who has tried to drive here knows. Traffic would be much, much worse without the availability of public transit, which removes hundreds of thousands of drivers from the roads every workday. So it’s not just riders who benefit from the system, it’s drivers as well, and it’s totally fair to ask drivers to pay for part of it through gas taxes. If you eliminated publicly-subsidized transportation in Chicago, the amount of money the public would end up having to spend acquiring land through eminent domain to widen highways and arterial streets alike would be astronomical, not to mention the economic disruption caused by bulldozing so many neighborhoods. I haven’t been to Oklahoma City in years, but it seems like a streetcar system could allow for increased development while minimizing the increased traffic congestion that inevitably comes with development. As in Chicago, non-riders would benefit from this as well as passengers.
I loved the streetcars when attending OCU. From Downtown up Classen to Belle Isle would be the awesome greatest.
Great idea! GO FOR IT!!!
Chicago has one of the best developed public transportation networks in the country. You get what you pay for!
Mr Hinton is obviously historically challenged. Oklahoma skipped the horse-car era and went right to electric streetcars at the beginning of the last century. The new ones will be electric, too.
OKC would be a great spot for streetcars/light rail etc, lets hope it doesn’t take two decades like the Phoenix system or the Portland system. Riding back from bricktown on a streetcar would be just great!
Naturally The Goose flatuates his non-sense, as usual. Why is it that every government passenger rail a socialist welfare system? Does that mean police departments, fire departments, DOTs etal. are socialist welfare agencies as well?