Comments on: Taxpayers Spend Millions on River Boats http://blog.newsok.com/okccentral/2009/11/01/taxpayers-spend-millions-on-river-boats/ The Oklahoman's Steve Lackmeyer covers downtown OKC brick by brick. Thu, 16 Feb 2012 16:15:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Reggie Jet http://blog.newsok.com/okccentral/2009/11/01/taxpayers-spend-millions-on-river-boats/comment-page-1/#comment-4979 Reggie Jet Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:09:24 +0000 http://blog.newsok.com/okccentral/?p=2624#comment-4979 Yep, time to rethink this arrangement. Yep, time to rethink this arrangement.

]]> By: Jeffrey http://blog.newsok.com/okccentral/2009/11/01/taxpayers-spend-millions-on-river-boats/comment-page-1/#comment-4977 Jeffrey Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:39:32 +0000 http://blog.newsok.com/okccentral/?p=2624#comment-4977 It was a HUGE mistake to ever put the riverboats under MetroTransit and try to characterize them as public transportation. This should have been water taxi's thing all along with the same type of deal given them as before. As a business, Water taxi has an incentive for the service to be profitable, whereas as a public entity, MetroTransit could care less if the River Cruises ever make money. Their pathetic p.r. with the river boats demonstrates this. There is ZERO cooperation or tie-in between Water Taxi and River Cruises, which also hurts. My understanding was that Water Taxi was going to be the operator of this until some last minute politicing shut them out. Now we have boats but no real plan as to how they will generate revenue. It looks like the plan was to just keep tapping gov. money under the guise of public transportation. My prediction is within 5 years the whole river transit operation will be sold to Water Taxi anyway. Those boats will look nice in Green and Yellow. It was a HUGE mistake to ever put the riverboats under MetroTransit and try to characterize them as public transportation. This should have been water taxi’s thing all along with the same type of deal given them as before. As a business, Water taxi has an incentive for the service to be profitable, whereas as a public entity, MetroTransit could care less if the River Cruises ever make money. Their pathetic p.r. with the river boats demonstrates this. There is ZERO cooperation or tie-in between Water Taxi and River Cruises, which also hurts.

My understanding was that Water Taxi was going to be the operator of this until some last minute politicing shut them out. Now we have boats but no real plan as to how they will generate revenue. It looks like the plan was to just keep tapping gov. money under the guise of public transportation.

My prediction is within 5 years the whole river transit operation will be sold to Water Taxi anyway. Those boats will look nice in Green and Yellow.

]]> By: Larry http://blog.newsok.com/okccentral/2009/11/01/taxpayers-spend-millions-on-river-boats/comment-page-1/#comment-4974 Larry Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:56:22 +0000 http://blog.newsok.com/okccentral/?p=2624#comment-4974 The above wasn't a slam at the Canal. Can only imagine the river boats haven't received the same exposure/press that the Canal did The above wasn’t a slam at the Canal. Can only imagine the river boats haven’t received the same exposure/press that the Canal did

]]> By: Larry http://blog.newsok.com/okccentral/2009/11/01/taxpayers-spend-millions-on-river-boats/comment-page-1/#comment-4973 Larry Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:50:20 +0000 http://blog.newsok.com/okccentral/?p=2624#comment-4973 Same was true for the Canal when it opened, it was a boat ride to nowhere...once you turned at the ballpark it was desolate... dead/dying landscaping, mounds of Oklahoma red dirt etc etc. Yet my fellow Okies were dressed in their Sunday finest (wool suits on a blistering July 4th weekend) lined up to get to take a ride. Same was true for the Canal when it opened, it was a boat ride to nowhere…once you turned at the ballpark it was desolate… dead/dying landscaping, mounds of Oklahoma red dirt etc etc. Yet my fellow Okies were dressed in their Sunday finest (wool suits on a blistering July 4th weekend) lined up to get to take a ride.

]]> By: Jill http://blog.newsok.com/okccentral/2009/11/01/taxpayers-spend-millions-on-river-boats/comment-page-1/#comment-4968 Jill Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:03:21 +0000 http://blog.newsok.com/okccentral/?p=2624#comment-4968 I don't really understand this at all. Who even thought we needed river boats? Is this federal money we wouldn't be getting if it weren't for the boats? It may be, as Core to Shore develops, that there will actually be something to take a boat to, but currently, I can ride my bike up and down the river in far less time and see the same scenery. I don’t really understand this at all. Who even thought we needed river boats? Is this federal money we wouldn’t be getting if it weren’t for the boats?

It may be, as Core to Shore develops, that there will actually be something to take a boat to, but currently, I can ride my bike up and down the river in far less time and see the same scenery.

]]> By: BTDT http://blog.newsok.com/okccentral/2009/11/01/taxpayers-spend-millions-on-river-boats/comment-page-1/#comment-4960 BTDT Sun, 01 Nov 2009 20:09:12 +0000 http://blog.newsok.com/okccentral/?p=2624#comment-4960 Does.not.compute. Not logically anyway. Does.not.compute.
Not logically anyway.

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