Ride on the Oklahoma City Streetcar 

This is what every major city needs in the US in order to mobilize people throughout the car jammed zones.

This street car is brand new. They finished this system about a year ago I think. My grandma told me when they started building it (she lives in the area) and said it actually caused some pretty heavy traffic in downtown for a while (no suprise). It was surprisingly a big deal to the entire city even though it only serves downtown.

These streetcars look so cool and they look sort of futuristic aswell as if they exist in 10 years time.

One of the main reasons for building streetcar lines is to draw investment to downtown areas, but a more fundamental problem is that downtown areas in the United States and Canada have become dominated by highways and parking lots, which makes them unfriendly and unattractive to pedestrians. In order to have a traditional pedestrian-friendly downtown with continuous lines of closely spaced buildings along the streets, it is necessary to get rid of the parking lots, which would require that people leave their cars at home. Accomplishing this requires a mass transit system that connects the suburbs to the city center. A streetcar that is a local area circulator doesn't fill the need. Cities in Europe are meeting the need by building mass transit and networks of protected bike lanes. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-h-I6HFQXquU.html

There was just one other passenger on the streetcar! I thought it might attract more riders given that it was new and still a novelty.

that livery is very cool

Very impressive👏

Can’t wait to move there love your videos I’m subbing ☺️

Cool exterior. Also first comment!

The one in Phoenix( not a trolley) goes more than 25 mph, keeps up with 45mph street traffic, and goes to the airport. 30 miles with 38 stops and expanding to South Phoenix and North

Hey. It’s Awesome Will. My old channel got terminated so this is my new one

With all the sunshine OKC gets, too bad this was filmed on a rainy day.

good for okc!

Nice!

Wondering how successful this has been.

STREET CARS

good video!!!!!!

Micve video!!!!!

Not a good day for filming your ride...try again.

Cool, but Milwaukee's is cooler

This is what happens when people who wouldn't know a Janney Coupler from a manhole cover get hold of a bunch of tax money. First they destroyed OKC Union Station - connected by rail to every major venue in the city, state and region - making certain that a downtown streetcar had nowhere to go. Then they blew a bunch of money on THIS thing (what IS it?) - after letting the oil big-wig who built that big, ugly building downtown tell them "don't string trolley wire in front of my structure." It was never going to be ANYTHING except one more highway-lobby argument against real multimodal transportation.

I never see anyone on it. Useless Okc too small

I really dislike these streetcars.