Is train travel the new green solution?

Not in Oklahoma anyway.

Public transportation is fine IF you live in a place that has a good public transportation system. Now Oklahoma City’s is OK IF you live along a bus route. Keep in mind, Oklahoma City is huge, second in size only to Jacksonville Florida. Here, you’ll find us spread out a good twenty plus miles in each direction. We’re a good 600 square miles! That’s a lot of driving any way you look at it.

The train? The train goes from downtown Oklahoma City to Ft Worth. The first stop south is a suburb, Norman. The schedule, as far as I can tell starts in OKC then goes south, then turns around and comes back. So, conceivably, one could live near downtown and work in Norman, but only if you don’t have to be at work til after 9am or want to return home until after 9 the same day. Just won’t work for most people.

That’s why almost everyone in Oklahoma drives themselves to work.

Not very green is it?

Tags: green solution, oklahoma, train

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