45 minutes?? How slow do you think the train is going? 10 MPH?
10 miles of track with 11 stops on the Chicago ME line takes 25 minutes.
with no stops the light rail from sante fe station to the airport on the route is 30 min ... this thread is talking about 5 stops on the route .. 2-3 min a stop you are getting close to 45 with no traffic .. (and there will be traffic) ..
that is the point .. and why this choice over heavy rail is so so poor ..
Yeah, they actually do a lot, but it's all like Ag, livestock convention stuff, like "American Association of ______ Breeders"
Also yeah I will absolutely a train to the airport, for real, and MAN what an awful place to be introduced to OKC, it's the literal worst part of town, in like so many ways, just miserable unshaded, not walkable, very run down, very broken and dated and terrible. It's really like the source of pretty much all mega bad opinions of our city from Visitors, I just can't even fathom being stuck somewhere like that on a trip.
Im kinda curious. Why don’t they choose a route that goes through the neighborhoods on the south side with a stop at OCCC then the airport. It would actually get heavy use instead of just a tourist light rail line. Maybe they could even have it go through down downtown and stop at the capitol and OU.
This to me makes the most sense. In many other cities the rail to and from the airport is not some sort of an express route but more a part of the local transit system. If timing and speed is your number one priority in OKC a private car service is going to beat any public transit ever and will continue to do so for the next 50 years. For the vast majority of cities in the US that is the case. It is the nature of the beast, we have a huge amount of land area to cover and most of our cities were not built when walking was the primary method of transportation. The line that has been purposed should have 2 regular stops and a seasonal stop. The seasonal stop would be a the fairgrounds, and the regular stops would be at the meridian hotels and the airport itself.
A lot of people who travel in for events at the Fairgrounds tend to stay at those hotels, from my understanding - but I think very few fly in. Still tho, the idea is if someone wanted to stay at the Meridian Ave hotels (regardless of how they got there) then they'd have easy access to the Fairgrounds via transit.
Also I just re-read what you quoted and I'm an idiot, I mistyped the first time. Instead of saying "to and from the Airport", I meant "to and from the Fairgrounds". Apologies.
By car that exact route (from the Santa Fe Hub streetcar station to the Airport via Reno then Meridian, just under 10 miles) takes just about 20 minutes, per Google Maps. Add a few minutes per each intermediate stop, and that's still well within a reasonable timeframe for transit from downtown. Of course that will vary somewhat depending on which type of vehicle they select, but even so, that passes the sniff test for me. I really don't believe it will be a problem.
You're thinking about this all wrong. What I've proposed is 4 stops in total - the originating stop in downtown where you'd board this service, then one stop at the Fairgrounds, one stop at roughly SW 15th & Meridian, then the end of the line at the airport. Only the two intermediate stops affect overall travel time.
Though looking at the map, an argument could be made to add a stop near Reno & Klein to serve the Farmer's Market district - especially if trains only stopped at the Fairgrounds stop during special events.
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