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In 2005 the Central Oklahoma Fixed Guideway Study (FGS) was completed and recommended feasible corridors for further investigation of commuter rail transit, bus rapid transit, a downtown Oklahoma City streetcar system, and an improved bus system to enhance connections among all public transportation services.
The streetcar was first conceived in a 2005 regional transit study known as the Fixed Guideway Study. The concept lay dormant until local Oklahoma City businessman, inventor, and political activist Jeff Bezdek promoted the project to the Oklahoma City Council to be considered as part of Metropolitan Area Projects Plan 3 (MAPS 3) program. [7]
Metro's service is lacking in some respects, but there are plans to improve it through Metro's vision known as Fixed Guideway Study. [ 3 ] Also part of the FGS, a new streetcar system known as the Oklahoma City Streetcar , which opened in December 2018, [ 4 ] [ 1 ] was completed under the city's MAPS 3 initiative.
In the early 2000s, Oklahoma was 48th in the nation for bridge conditions. Today, the state ranks in the top 10 nationally for good bridge conditions. How Oklahoma has turned around and fixed ...
ODOT is also responsible for administration of state and federal funding for public transit operators in areas with less than 50,000 in population and state safety oversight of fixed guideway rail transit systems, including the Oklahoma City Streetcar.
The bus departs Oklahoma City at 9:50 p.m. and leaves Newton at 4 a.m. Boyer said Oklahoma and Kansas are working on the second phase of studies required to extend the Heartland Flyer. That study ...
In December 2018, Embark began operation of Oklahoma City Streetcar, the state's only modern streetcar system, which services a nearly five-mile route in the urban core. [ 11 ] On January 27, 2019, Sunday bus service was implemented for the first time in Oklahoma City public transportation history, utilizing the same operational routes and ...
SH-41 was extended east to Oklahoma City sometime between August 1933 and October 1935. [3] SH-41's eastern terminus now fell at the intersection with US-62 / 277 . [ 4 ] The current western terminus was established between April 1938 and April 1939, when the highway was extended west from Sayre, through Sweetwater, to the Texas state line ...