And the the pond in the gardens is probably lower than the canal’s level. Just seems like a waste of money and an attempt to overuse the canal concept. Maybe if the canal were at max capacity lined with retail, hotels, and restaurants, but that’s hardly the case. Let’s get what we have filled in first, and let the Bricktown Canal be Bricktown’s.

Downtown, the Gardens, Devon, etc would be better served by being connected with a trolley line.

But remember, the alignment would probably require changes along Reno, which would only be possible after the current I-40 alignment is replaced by the planned Boulevard. Who knows what the right funding mechanism is? It might be too early in the process to decide that.

But I don’t think AT ALL that canal extension/improvements and Myriad Gardens improvements, river improvements, mass transit, or anything else need be mutually exclusive. Remember, the canal only made up about 8 or 9 percent of the total MAPS I budget. The original MAPS demonstrated out-of-the-box ideas, creativity and vision, and I think the same type of imaginative thinking can make the things mentioned above happen, too.

The important thing here is that current developments, as they happen, should acknowledge the possibility of an extension, and not unintentionally create obstacles to it happening in the future.