Two answers:
(1) Yes, Omaha has areas like this.
(2) The proposed light rail would not have served these areas
Yes, the proposed light rail system would have served these areas.
Omaha officially has about 8% of households that don’t own a car. This includes households that lease a car, households of elderly without a car, or households that do not want a car (many times young and single).
https://www.governing.com/gov-data/car-ownership-numbers-of-vehicles-by-city-map.html
The poorer sections of town have a bus service that very few people ride.
http://www.ometro.com/index.php/bus-system/system-map/
One of the Chamber proponents of light rail claimed that the light rail service, running north to south in eastern Omaha, would enable low income residents of north Omaha to travel cheaply to work in Bellevue. If there were people from north Omaha who could get hired in the Bellevue jobs, they could easily ride the existing bus tra
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In response to York1, the route illustrated in your note wasn’t the route that was talked about when I lived in Omaha. The main travel pattern for commutation in the Omaha area is east-west. I doubt that there are enough potential transit riders in the north-south corridor illustrated to make any rail transit system worthwhile (a light rail to Bellevue - who’s kidding whom?), and probably not enough to support much of a bus system.
I agree. The new proposed route was done only to appeal to special interest groups. Buses run that North-South route now, and they are almost always mostly empty.
This is a continuing attempt to show the need of something that is not needed.
The population in city of Omaha is 443,885. There are 3,449 people per square mile aka population density. 1,600 people per sqaure mile in Douglass county.
Omaha & Council Bluffs 808 crossing from Council Bluffs to Omaha
Photo supplied by Henry Deutsch, son of Carl Deutsch, of Austrian Hiking Club fame.
Omaha does not have a Major League Sports team of any kind. (no baseball/basketball/hockey) that would draw in thousands of people into the central hub from the burbs/outer towns…Citys that have a rail system depend on white middle class driver voters to support it and would actulay have a reason to use it on occasion like going to the ballgame.Buffalo is now smaller the Omaha but our Hockey Team/Minor Leage Baseball keeps there little rail 6 mile system numbers up.
More Omaha and Council Bluffs streetcar pictures from Henry Deutsch’s files:
Rode Blue Bus to Council Bluffs from Omaha at 600 PM…I was the only passenger on the bus…Also there is not a downtown transit center or hub so finding the bus was a Pain in the Mule…