Tulsa passenger rail?

[ttown]

Tulsa has been proposed as a hub in the central region.

Now is the time to act. Submit supportive comments at the bottom of the homepage page.

I spent many hours as a youth waiting for my cousins to come into the downtown Union Depo. As they worked for the Frisco railroad.

I would love to be able to travel to Dallas, KC, or St. Louis on the rail.

I would also like to take a long vacation to California just for the old world experience on a modern train.

Railroad pocket watches are my passion and would love to reunite as few with their heritage by strapping on on and taking off for the weekend without me driving to okc.

Like minds please comment on their website.

https://fralongdistancerailstudy.org/

 

[Chief Sapulpa]

Another Pothole Pete folly.

 

[sherrick13]

Useless as tits on a boar hog.

 

[Letfreedomring]

Useful as greyhound buses

 

[GlockPride]

How about everyone submit non-supportive comments. If it was beneficial and profitable, it’d have been done already. With the age of air travel, the idea of a train has left everyone behind but boomers.

 

[KroyWen]

It’ll bring all the riff raff into OK. ALSO Agenda 30 goal……get rid of cars !! I VOTE NO WAY

 

[dennishoddy]

I have some friends that have taken the train from OKC to Ft Worth. They said it was pleasurable for the most time but got monotonous with all the small town stops.
They said it was an interesting trip but probably won’t do it again.

 

[Rooster1971]

Useful as greyhound buses

I’ve taken both trains and busses. Got back okay. The bus from California took awhile.

 

[1911DA]

IMHO passenger trains and city public transportation busses are nothing but money pits. Look at the boondoggle for both types of OKCs buss systems with very few riders and they are supported by tax money with no chance of payback and are always in the way effing up the traffic pattern.

Freight trains make perfect sense as they can move many tons of freight with just a 3 or 4 man crew.

 

[CHenry]

I have some friends that have taken the train from OKC to Ft Worth. They said it was pleasurable for the most time but got monotonous with all the small town stops.
They said it was an interesting trip but probably won’t do it again.

And it is completely subsidized by your federal tax dollars.
I worked for the Transportation Department in OK for 31 years and I know things that I wish I didnt.
Many of those things would make the hair on your neck stand up.
reason I left...