The indication that the loss of the Union terminal in Oklahoma City occurred as a result of its interference with the proposed Interstate 40 Crosstown Expressway is seriously misleading. Purchase of OKC’s Union terminal for less than $2 million as a future rail hub was endorsed in a 1989 letter signed by Neal McCaleb, then […]
Edwin Kessler
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On the wrong track?
The indication that the loss of the Union terminal in Oklahoma City occurred as a result of its interference with the proposed Interstate 40 Crosstown Expressway is seriously misleading. Purchase of OKC’s Union terminal for less than $2 million as a future rail hub was endorsed in a 1989 letter signed by Neal McCaleb, then […]
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On the wrong track?
The indication that the loss of the Union terminal in Oklahoma City occurred as a result of its interference with the proposed Interstate 40 Crosstown Expressway is seriously misleading. Purchase of OKC’s Union terminal for less than $2 million as a future rail hub was endorsed in a 1989 letter signed by Neal McCaleb, then […]
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‘Water solution’
First, diversion of Oklahoma freshwater from its flow to the Red River would increase the salinity of the Red River, already saline from flow of the Salt Fork, near the boundary of Oklahoma with Texas. Deliberate increase of the salinity of the Red River is forbidden by the Red River Compact (RRC), to which Oklahoma, […]
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Feeling ‘cross’
Two articles in the Sept. 1 Oklahoma Gazette call for response. Blair Humphreys (Commentary, “MAPS 3.1”) is looking for ways to save nearly $25 million for possible relocation of an OG&E substation now positioned problematically with respect to Core to Shore, enabled by MAPS 3. If most of that money becomes “saved,” it can be […]
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Corporate questions
David Stringer became publisher of The Norman Transcript in 1997, and his resignation was announced in a very brief article on April 29. Another article, also notable for its lack of significant background information, appeared in the Oklahoma Gazette, authored by Jack Willis (Commentary, “Corporate America, take heed: Publishers should be local”), on May 12. […]
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On rail transportation
Renewed interest in rail stems from U.S. dependence on foreign oil, decline of supplies, wildly erratic fuel prices and the high efficiency, safety and carrying capacity of passenger and freight by rail. And the Association of Central Oklahoma Governments now has a rail transit committee, which may somewhat counteract decades of rail neglect in Oklahoma. […]
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On rail transportation
Renewed interest in rail stems from U.S. dependence on foreign oil, decline of supplies, wildly erratic fuel prices and the high efficiency, safety and carrying capacity of passenger and freight by rail. And the Association of Central Oklahoma Governments now has a rail transit committee, which may somewhat counteract decades of rail neglect in Oklahoma. […]