Comments on: Oklahoma River Cruisers: $155 Per Passenger

By: Steven

Steven — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:14:05 +0000

Mike, the City doesn’t “slash” education budgets. Maybe you should educate yourself on who does. I do agree with you about the river cruisers, they are 10 years ahead of their time, and not in a good way. The city would benefit much more by putting that money into better bus and trolley routes instead of boats to nowhere.

I agree with Jeffrey, the City should have privitized the river boats. Subsidizing was NOT the way to go on this one. #fail

By: Jeffrey

Jeffrey — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 05:23:41 +0000

Yep. Water Taxi is in business to make money – Metro Transit is not.

By: slackmeyer

slackmeyer — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 04:34:22 +0000

Jeffrey, are you referring to the Bricktown water taxis?

By: Jeffrey

Jeffrey — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 04:10:00 +0000

The city is going to have a hard time admitting that they screwed up royaly by not going with river taxi on this deal. River Taxi is in business to make money – Metro Transit is not. That right there doomed this thing to fail.
Here’s how I think you fix this: 1) One price, ride all day. 2)Dump Meridian landing – go as far as Stockyards (Through only 1 lock) and thats it. 3) Run the boats in a circuit between Stockyards, Native American Center (When completed)Chesapeake Boathouse and the Park off of Walker. 4) Sell all three current boats and buy 2 new boats with a slick design that can operate in higher winds.

OKC probably won’t do any of this, but that’s my thought.

By: Curt

Curt — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 03:12:20 +0000

I say get rid of the boats and have canoe rentals on one portion and paddle boats on another portion.

By: David

David — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 23:47:23 +0000

Great work Steve I had heard it was a boondoggle just not this big.

By: Carl

Carl — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 22:05:18 +0000

Whoa.

By: mike rhenolds

mike rhenolds — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 17:24:33 +0000

I’m shocked there aren’t more riders interested in taking a cruise down the barren scenery of the Oklahoma River.

And I’m glad the city is continuing to support these “cruises” while they slash education budgets.

By: Doug Loudenback

Doug Loudenback — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 16:17:11 +0000

Woah! Pretty darned interesting stuff, you write. I’ve saved a copy for later use and/or analysis … need to think a bit about this one.