Texas-Oklahoma Passenger Rail Study Public Open House March 25th

[G.Walker]

I am more excited about this anything, rather than expanding airport, new office towers, widening interstates. People don't understand how this would be a game changer for downtown Oklahoma City. People could actually live in downtown OKC and hold a full-time job in Dallas, or vice versa. Downtown resident population would skyrocket. If speeds get approved for 220mph, we would be able to get to downtown Dallas in less than an hour! Crazy how transportation technology has evolved.

[Just the facts]

If speeds get approved for 220mph, we would be able to get to downtown Dallas in less than an hour! Crazy how transportation technology has evolved.

Crazy that a person could live in downtown OKC and get to work in downtown Dallas faster than a person in Plano could get to work in downtown Dallas.

[Praedura]

Short article about this here:

TxDOT Discussing Possible OKC-South Texas Rail - keyetv.com

Also, a nice pic from the pdf at the TxDOT page (Texas-Oklahoma Passenger Rail Study)




There's also some info about this idea in the Texas Transportation Plan 2035:

http://tti.tamu.edu/conferences/tsc1...moczygemba.pdf


I particularly like this photo that appears in the plan:



Hey, OKC-Tulsa is an emerging mega region!

[Praedura]

Since I brought it up, might as well post the whole map:



From: The Emerging Megaregions | Visual.ly