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Now I will conduct audits on the pedestrian infrastructure in the neighbouring communities.

I walk and bike stroads everyday, but never any that bad or wide and dangerous.

Hey, it can't be ilegal if the light never changes.

I’ve lived in Oklahoma County all my life and worked in Bricktown in the early 90s. Bricktown was already booming when MAPPs started. Midtown is another area that took off without MAPPs help. Additionally, the streetcar has very low ridership because it doesn’t really go anywhere that makes it competitive in getting people to use it instead of driving themselves. The urban planning of the modern day is just as much top-down central planning of the 50s and 60s, they just haven’t had the same boom-to-bust economic cycle to expose them. Other than misattributing growth to MAPPs and conflating the streetcar with progress, your presentation of the history of OKC’s layout and development is very good.

I’m really enjoying your channel! I’d love it if you’d do a detailed video on the RTA of Central Oklahoma process and where they’re at with planning for commuter rail.

Gatewood resident here! 👋 I have ridden Rapid a few times now and I’m a fan! I do wish it had dedicated lanes on Classen. The painted “bus” word on the pavement plus the signs aren’t very clear. The signs went up shortly after service started and they clarify that the eight lane is for the bus and right turns only… during peak hours. I’m not sure many drivers pay attention to those rules. But overall I’m very pleased with it. More BRT-ish lines in OKC, please!

Summer 1983 I needed to retake a "Library Administration" course on my University of Oklahoma Master of Library Science degree. I took Greyhound for 2 weeks on a 8 week course from Norman OK down to Texas Women's University in Denton TX. It seemed to take 4 - 5 hours one way with all the local stops so after 2 weeks, due to time constraints, I decided to just drive my car.

Watching a local UA-camr is strange lol 15:43 right here is the path i used to walk every day to get to school, ive moved since then but its still incredibly memorable

People saying theres not enough parking and then the map shows 70% of the city is lots 😂 america is cooked

I took this train to go down to Dallas to buy a motorcycle that I rode back. With the exception of the fact that it only had 1 departure time it was convenient, comfortable and relatively cheap

I am with you on the commuter rail. And with I-35 and I-40 being an impossible to solve nightmare, it needs to be done as those interstates will only get worse. They could add commuter rail service from downtown OKC to around Edmond North High School. Run that same line down to Norman. They could rive the line that runs to Midwest City. Take the east/west line that runs along I-40 and run service out to Yukon. Take the southwest running line and operate service out to Mustang and add a station over by the airport. Sell passes that let you ride the commuter rail, the street car (or whatever it is called) downtown, or the city buses. One pass and you ride any of those options all day long. Start giving people here some mobility freedom because the road network here is a lost cause.

I've taken that train to Ft Worth on a day trip. I had never traveled with Amtrak and wanted to see how they did. It is like an experience from the 1970's and that isn't a good thing. The cars are severely out of date. The track quality at times was fairly poor making the choice of using double decker cares on the route a bad one. The food quality was like microwaved gas station food at twice the price. And the station in OKC had absolutely nothing to offer. There was a complete lack of effort by Amtrak to make this a quality experience. They cannot even be bothered to offer seat selections. At a minimum they should double the length of the train and make it a single level, add a cafe car, add Wi-Fi, and run the route at least 2 or 3 times daily.

OKC is so beautiful! Thank you so much for covering it! I live outside it, but I always feel happiness when I see the downtown or the Devon Tower.

I love that beautiful music that plays in the background of this video. What’s it called?

I’ve used the train to go see my friends and family in Dallas.

I’ve taken this train down to Ardmore a couple of times to ride back to OKC/Norman by bike. Every so often they allow bikes on the train. Then they take randomly stop offering that. It’s a fun trip there and a fun ride back during the summer with a nice south wind.

Lol. Yeah, we’ll buy that book immediately. Why don’t you come to Texas and see how well you’re presuppositions hold up.

Ive lived in Oklahoma 36 uears and ive never heard of a commuter train at all. Im not convinced its real and if it is, its definitely for extremely rich people

Surprisingly 🤣

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That guy from Metrolink seems like a cool guy

I really wanted to move into my nearby city. But as I've gotten more into urbanism and realizing how my small outskirts town can be improved for the benefit of the bigger city, I've realized those improvements can make the Small Town better for the people living in it. So now I'm looking for ways to improve its benefit.

That’s makes sense. I’ve lived jn OKC most of my life and could never understand the logic of Grand all over the city. This makes more sense now.

Lived in Helensburgh when I was growing up and in Partick when I went to Strathclyde University, public transport into city was fast and frequent from. Org of those locations, the train was my life line, convert trains to metro and fill in the gaps with trams and light rail you will easily have a world class public transport system

Glasgow is a pretty big city - 5th biggest in the UK (largest in Scotland), and over a million people live there.

Those are some narrow platforms. Going to be a challenge fitting platform screen doors there as well.

With Brexit and money being very short nowadays, No-one can afford subways any more. Glasgow has a great suburban network but needs a couple of new tunnels to connect with each other, a LRT system would be very good in Greater Glasgow but where's the money? Also forget about the buses as they are always caught in jams and whilst most people want more cars, it will destroy Glasgow and the world, even with EVs. Yes only Indy will deliver these and not only will the e4xtension with the Underground become two horseshoes and a circle will be good, an East-West automated Metro will certainly help as well as LRT. Kuala Lumpur has this As for the US , unless it breaks it's car addiction, it's going to kill the country!

You should look into the public transport in Canberra, Australia. The local Gov pushed through a single section of a light rail, its length is probably about 12km

it's sad that in America you have to have a car in order to ride a bicycle because you have to drive to a park to ride Im one of a few that uses a bicycle as their main mod of transportation in Alabama and no offence their are more black people riding bike than white people and we get along believe it or not

We have Amtrak??? Probably didn't know because im rural.

Driving is way more fun when there's fewer cars on the road and when you don't have to drive to commute to work.

The Glasgow subway, nowadays, is very south and west focused. Absolutely no route through the east end and the same is true for the north of Glasgow. The feeling is that it is used mostly for the better off west end folk, and now the south side is getting gentrified, it’s the same for the people for those who are migrating to the south side. It’s not just a geographical issue, it’s a class issue as well.

The OKC train show was great.

Hi Kyler. Sorry to be commenting on a video that's a year old. I felt compelled to comment because 1) I've got family roots in Oklahoma, and 2) I've lived in San Francisco most of my adult life (and I am quite old). I'm also a practicing planner. Anyway, just wanted to say that this whole video is spot on -- actually kind of amazingly so given that as you say, you've never even been here. Very impressed. PS "Today nobody misses the Embarcadero Freeway" -- can confirm, 100% true statement.

I think a better comparison for OKC would be Vancouver, BC. They are similar sized cities, but Vancouver put in its first (fully automated + grade separated) subway/metro in 1985 and has continued to expand the system ever since. The full system gets a daily ridership of just shy of 500,000 riders per day.

There's a huge network of low-level trains around Glasgow. You don't need a bigger underground

Glasgow’s public transport is already more than adequate. Many other much larger cities in the UK in far greater need e.g Leeds, Manchester

Shame the Scottish Government Won’t give the Money to extend. They tried to sell it to the Japs in the early 2000’s and they laughed at it…

In the last few years Glasgow has pedestrianised many city centre streets, introduced a low emission zone prohibiting certain vehicles, and introduced parking charges 7 days a week till 10pm. Ok, we get it, you don't want us to drive into town. So how many new stations or new public transport systems (or system extensions) of rail, light rail, monorail or tram has there been in the last 100 years? That'll be zero. Want to travel from the north of Scotland to the south? You'll have to change trains and stations in Glasgow and walk between them. Usually in the rain. Want to travel on the Glasgow subway, trains and buses? That'll be 3 fares and 3 tickets on separate systems. Apparently implementing one integrated system is too difficult. 21 years after TFL introduced the osyter card. Space age stuff. Want to travel to the city airport? You'll have to go by road, because twice over they've bottled out of building a simple light rail spur of about a mile in length. Meanwhile Edinburgh, with it's excellent and long highly regarded bus system, now has its second phase of their tram system nobody asked for. We aren't serious about this stuff.

You got a sunny day in Glasgow, congratulations!

All of the money was given to Edinburgh for its trams whilst Glasgow got nothing 🤷‍♂️

Once seen a junkie shoot heroin into his nob on the ggow subway

The new trains are shit

The clockwork orange. Its nickname for years.

This was a neat watch to randomly discover when I fired up UA-cam. I live in OK and have considered taking the Heartland Flyer to DFW at some point. Also used to live in Japan and man, the rail experience there is amazing, from downtown Tokyo to small rural towns...it set the bar too high though haha. Best of luck with the channel!

The thing with the Glasgow 'subway' line is that its only one line in a much more extensive (largely underground) urban/suburban rail network, which itself was once even more extensive. The question isn't so much why the 'subway' was never expanded so much as why that one line has never been integrated with the other lines into a 'Glasgow metro'. It exists everywhere except on paper and at the ticket desk.

The United States' great plains has such potential for rail and high-speed rail. A route btwn OKC and Tulsa would be awesome..... the Turner Turnpike is crazy scary.

Amtrak should try making a three tier system, tier 1 - long distance, tier 2 - statewide, tier 3 - citywide/locally

>"see, I live in Oklahoma city" Eesh, a city with some of the worst urbanism in the country, and that's saying a lot.

You seem to have missed something. The Glasgow underground system was built to a current standard. Mine rail systems used in larger operations. The people who designed and built the system had experience and this with the equipment they were used to was translated to the underground.