OKC light rail!

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Originally Posted by Alex Libman

Great, sucking money out of productive people and wasting it on economically unsustainable choo-choo toys for demagogue bureaucrats...

Yeah i agree. Although i love the public transit life (now living east coast) its hard for me to see Okie's using this. The tax money used from hard working okies and eventually only poor people will be using this system.
I cannot see a middle class man with a tie taking public transit if mostly ghetto's are taking the rail.

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High-speed rail coming to Oklahoma?
by Janice Francis-Smith
The Journal Record
March 20, 2009


OKLAHOMA CITY – Only those who have been to Europe or Japan have seen what a real high-speed rail line can do, transportation officials told lawmakers on Thursday. But the federal government is putting up the money to make high-speed rail a reality in the U.S. – maybe even in Oklahoma.

Tulsa and Oklahoma City are the northernmost points on a proposed high-speed rail corridor extending down to Austin and San Antonio, Texas, which has already been approved by federal transportation officials. The U.S. Department of Transportation has approved about a dozen high-speed rail corridors around the country. But with costs of construction extending into the millions or billions for true high-speed rail, few of the projects have progressed beyond the beginning stages.

The Journal Record - Article