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Take the train!
@@eryngo.urbanism Train to Busan
There is a professor at the University of Oklahoma who teaches a Saturday class. He commutes about 6 times a semester from Fort Worth. Not sure if he still teaches, it has been a few years.
I live in Norman, so I love to see all the love and focus on the town. Awesome content!
Great videos!
Hi Eryngo! Thank you for highlighting our outstanding metro. This really is a special place. 💜 #1okc
Enjoyed the video, positive outlook, and taking action 🙌 Cheers from Tulsa
I had a discussion about why we don't have good transit in Oklahoma. I just visited Eugene Oregon and was using that as a refrence. The person I talked to said: "Eugene has 4X the population density of Tulsa, while ocucpying 1/3 of the geographic footprint. Successful mass transit is dependent on population density. Want great mass transit? Move to a city the saw its most significant growth prior to the Eisenhower administration. Cities that saw such growth thereafter did so around highways, and their subsequent sprawl reflects that."
Love seeing my city 💕
Thanks for posting this. I know lots of Oklahomans that don’t even know about the Embark stuff. It’s super convenient for a night out.
Oh most omnipotent city planning overlord Kyler, have you ever covered the Issue between 91st and 101st and memorial? You drive on the wrong side of the road for crying outloud. Vid pretty plz
That’s a diverging diamond interchange! Believe it or not, it’s actually safer and more efficient than a typical highway interchange.
I think you can find the seeds of good urbanism in the most unlikely of places. Most cities didn't start out as a stroad hellscape and there's an opportunity to foster good design. I also think that most people don't understand its value and when they start to comprehend how much better their city would be by making some adjustments, they tend to support those policies. Great video!
ever since i went to paris life here in the usa feels so empty like its not even funny all i want is to go back it was so fun😔
I had one of my hubcaps stolen in that parking lot in the beginning.
Been wondering what the trains in Moore are for
cool story bro 🙄
Glad you enjoyed!
I enjoy hearing about different places (like Oklahoma City) that don't get as much coverage. Keep it up!
Love your mindset regarding staying in Oklahoma. It is a beautiful state with beautiful cities that are buried under parking lots.
i became an "urbanist" (didn't know of the term at the time) when i got fed up with virtually mandatory car ownership constantly destroying my savings every time i finally had some savings, and realizing if i lived in a place like tokyo, i would never have this problem.
Did you watch Mayor Holt’s State of the City today? Thoughts?
Nope, but he generally seems to be doing a pretty good job with things
The problem with Oklahoma isn’t the built environment; it’s the natural one. There simply isn’t enough freshwater resources to support a booming metropolis (no matter how dense) Hopefully more urbanists in the arid South/West of the U.S. will realize this soon and help us continue preparing the Rust Belt for the inevitable influx of climate refugees from places like OKC or Tulsa. 😢
This is a weird reason to preemptively write off entire parts of the country. Oklahoma would still be a reasonably livable place even if every coastal city in the world was fully underwater. For the foreseeable future, people will be living here and building things, so the things we’re building should be sustainable, resilient, and ideally nice to inhabit.
@@eryngo.urbanism We thought that people would be living and building things here in the Rust Belt for the foreseeable future a century ago as well… we had tons of sustainable, resilient, & nice to inhabit urban fabric developed already. Then the Model-T and (especially) the A.C. came out and people started moving South/West. Not only did this essentially destroy organized labor in America, but it left massive swaths of the kind of built environment urbanists love to champion abandoned. Much of it still is. I’m not Jason slaughter saying give up on the national as a whole and move to Europe, but U.S. urbanists should definitely choose our battles wisely and it would be a lot smarter (not only for the environmental reasons I cited earlier but economically as well) to try to restore these currently vacant yet urbanist city-planning friendly places back to their former density and vibrancy than it would be trying to change the culture of a state that’s already fully embraced car culture and designed itself around that.
Happy 2 year channel anniversary
Thanks for being such an amazing voice for urbanism in Oklahoma! You have made such an impact on my views of our surroundings and how we can make them better. I'm not exactly sure what I want to do as a career, but in a huge part to you I've not been able to shake the idea of getting into a field that can help our urban spaces be more wonderful.
You are doing a really good job and I appreciate you still find the time to create a video in your limited free time. I started to care about my surroudings way more when I found about urbanism and channels similar to you. Keep up!
Love the videos and can't wait to see the channel grow in years to come Man! Keep on rocking it!!
Great video, and your commitment to your community is inspiring!
I feel a lot of the BRT checklist makes things more complicated and expensive than they need to be. For the cost of a couple center lane stations you can get several more buses and drivers. Same goes for all the fancy payment systems. Despite all the complaints about dedicated lanes, there wasn't a shot where the bus was impeded by traffic or parking; maybe in that context they aren't necessary. In my experience, a bus stop can be a pole in the ground and the bus can be from WWII; if the bus is frequent, dependable and goes between desirable locations, it will be filled to capacity. You should use the list as a shopping menu ,to fix things that are real problems for your specific line, not as a purity test.
chat we gotta save this state
I definitely think that many places that are deemed "unsavory" urbanism wise are savable, and it's obvious that all it takes is someone with the political will to enact those changes to take the lead. The hard part is just getting all of the old heads out of the way that are fine with the status quo. Either way I agree that communities like the one that you worked with are valid and shouldn't get discarded so easily by some online "advocates" who make sweeping generalizations about specific areas. Both frustrating things
I know you mentioned Discord but do you know of any in-person events or meetups that local urbanists can attend? Something like Strong Towns or similar? Also good video, I wish more Americans visited Europe or Japan so they could see good transit/walkable spaces in action. Many haven’t even visited NYC or DC.
Look into your local Urban Land Institute (ULI) chapter! While membership is slightly expensive, it’s a great way to connect with professionals and to get involved with urbanism on both a local and global scale. Also, keep an eye out for other more local groups! Here in Oklahoma, organizations like TYPROS, OKC Beautiful, 612, etc. can also be great communities for urbanists.
@@eryngo.urbanism Anything free and specifically in the Tulsa area?
@@highway2heaven91 Definitely look into TYPROS!
The big Joel of infastructure🔥🔥
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I didn’t even know Oklahoma had a passenger train
*cries in Nashville*
You should see Main Street in my hometown of Seminole. It’s woefully dead even for a dying town, arguably the most dead part of it.
It’s good it connects to the Amtrak station. It extends the reach of the station basically.
The park itself could be multi use too. A lot of parks in Seattle are heavily wooded with hiking trails but also have tennis courts and skateparks in them. Some even have urban campsites
The reason the OKC Streetcar needs to go into battery mode is to go under the BNSF tracks, as there is not enough vertical space to put in wires for power.
Oh hey, that is actually a decent explanation!
I moved to OKC from Ft worth back in 2019. However, I was still working in FW for like 4 months. At some point during this period, my car ate shit. There was a brief period of time where I used the heartland flyer to "commute" back and forth but I was staying in FW Thursday through Saturday and would go back on Sunday night and have Monday thru Wednesday in OKC. It wasn't great, but it worked for a second. I wish the rail system were better.
great video. how did you make the travel map animations that showed your routes?
Thanks! Illustrator and After Effects!
Plaza district?
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I didn't know it was just one train
Oklahoma City is far too low population density for public transportation to work well. We are a large land mass and covering that requires constant customers paying fees. There just isn't enough traffic to support such a sprawling system. This is why bus schedules are so light, we have 1 train route, and even taxi service is a rare sight anywhere but downtown. Everything is so spread out that everyone has to have a car, and when everyone has a car, taking the time to organize a public transportation route, and spending the extra time executing it becomes a lot of unnecessary work. Traffic is usually not too bad in OKC, comparatively, so it works out. I've visited Boston a few times on the way up to New Hampshire for some summer specialty training and the MBTA subway and Downeaster rail was pretty nice, particularly the Downeaster, very comfortable and relatively inexpensive. Population density is so much higher there that it can make sense. Comparing Boston and OKC, Boston's density is 14,000 people per square mile. OKC is 1100. That's how you get public transportation that can sustain itself.
Another way to look at it is that Oklahoma City needs to build up areas of density and generally reduce its dependency on cars. Something that would help catalyze those changes would be a high quality public transportation system that people actually want to use. The RTA’s commuter rail plan is a good example of this. It will help downtown Edmond, Norman, and various destinations throughout OKC make a case for why density and walkability would be beneficial and convenient to the communities surrounding the stations.
Having lived mostly in Chicago and visited NYC, I didn't really vibe with the streets vs avenues dynamic there but I appreciate it a lot more now after watching this video
I still find it hard to believe that actual real people also live in Oklahoma.
That's the 1 main thing i have to COMPLAIN about Oklahoma City and Tulsa.. The bussing system SUCKS!! Ive been in MANY major cities homeless and was able to get around and do what i needed without owning transportation. Oklahoma is in the DARK AGES. And I live in Purcell BTW.
I'm on OKC native and lived many years in Norman as well. Would love to see far more Passenger rail in this state. Ulsa, Ardmore, Paul's Valley, DFW, Lawton... everything is spread out and this part of the country would be well served by passenger rail I believe.
My reaction to the title of this: HOW THE HECK.
Another fellow Oklahoman who went to OU here. Did the train not have a way for you to take your bike with you? I know the busses around Norman have bike racks on them, so I assume the 24 would too? Nevermind about the bus. Just reached the part where you show a bike on it.
Amtrak provides conflicting info on whether or not bikes are allowed. Given that it’s double decker railcars and the platform at the OKC station is elevated, it seemed like more trouble than it was worth.