Every little trickle of rail passenger rail service for Oklahoma is awaited with excitement. Of course the Dallas/Ft. Worth to Kansas City route stopping in more cities in Oklahoma will get lots of use! OF COURSE! Only an agency like ODOT would pretend to think otherwise.
Too bad we have to rely on the Okla. Dept. of Highways to help us get that service! The department is notoriously lacking interest in our needs and the vision to get out of its $10-million-per-highway-lane-mile thinking.
Tulsa would like to be hooked up with Oklahoma City and then with St. Louis. (It doesn't need to be "high-speed", just PASSENGER RAIL).
How about Lawton? ODOT would need to restore rail connections to Lawton.
It has to be said that ODOT's ruthless destruction of Oklahoma's rail potential, especially its plan to run a highway through the OKC Union Station rail yard, the HUB for the whole state, is really appalling.
Let's hope that business and university leaders will understand what a boon passenger rail across the state would be for us all. All need to speak out to change ODOT into an agency serving Oklahomans, not the highway lobby.
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Every little trickle of rail passenger rail service for Oklahoma is awaited with excitement. Of course the Dallas/Ft. Worth to Kansas City route stopping in more cities in Oklahoma will get lots of use! OF COURSE! Only an agency like ODOT would pretend to think otherwise.
Too bad we have to rely on the Okla. Dept. of Highways to help us get that service! The department is notoriously lacking interest in our needs and the vision to get out of its $10-million-per-highway-lane-mile thinking.
Tulsa would like to be hooked up with Oklahoma City and then with St. Louis. (It doesn't need to be "high-speed", just PASSENGER RAIL).
How about Lawton? ODOT would need to restore rail connections to Lawton.
It has to be said that ODOT's ruthless destruction of Oklahoma's rail potential, especially its plan to run a highway through the OKC Union Station rail yard, the HUB for the whole state, is really appalling.
Let's hope that business and university leaders will understand what a boon passenger rail across the state would be for us all. All need to speak out to change ODOT into an agency serving Oklahomans, not the highway lobby.
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