Quote Originally Posted by Larry OKC View Post
One thing I found interesting was about the Streetcars. I was in agreement with those on these threads that one of the advantages of a fixed rail system (as opposed to buses) was that developers would know where the routes/stations are going to be and development will naturally follow.

But Russ Tillman, offered a cautionary note. Said that since they are expensive and permanent, that routes need to be chosen very carefully. He stated...
This isn't aimed at you Larry, but who would have thought the street car lines WOULDN"T need to be well planned? This is the very reason the orginal rail plan in MAPS I would have been a disaster. It was not well thought out and would have doomed any future rail expansion because the anti-rail crowd would of had actual evidence of rail failure in OKC. We dodged a bullet back then.