Tulsa Transit on Google

[Gaspar]

Google Transit is sweet!

http://www.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&dirflg=r&ll=35.215290,-97.453071&spn=0.063552,0.082421

I'd take the bus if it was this easy.

[BKDotCom]

Google maps upgraded to include transit layer:
http://i.gizmodo.com/5131305/google-maps-gets-a-public-transit-layer

[grahambino]

quote:Originally posted by BKDotCom

Google maps upgraded to include transit layer:
http://i.gizmodo.com/5131305/google-maps-gets-a-public-transit-layer

Sorry, still not good enough for Tulsa Transit!

Who's ever heard of this "London" place?!

[TulsaFan-inTexas]

What is wrong with the Tulsa MTTA? This should be a no brainer and would be cost prohibitive as well. It's almost as if there are a bunch of idiots running that place. Nowadays EVERYBODY uses google and it would increase visibility for the city. You know, as much as I like Tulsa, there are a LOT of things the city does that are just plain asinine.

[sgrizzle]

http://tulsanow.org/forum/pop_profile.asp?mode=display&id=2154

[TheTed]

Tulsa Transit now has a mobile site.
http://tulsatransit.mobi/

[TheTed]

Bumping this thread to point out the other cities we're falling behind.

* Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County, Houston, TX
* VIA Metropolitan Transit in San Antonio, TX
* Utah Transit Authority, Salt Lake City, UT
* Metro St. Louis, St Louis, MO
* Foothill Transit, San Gabriel Valley, CA
* Riverside Transit, Riverside, CA
* Charlotte Area Transit System, Charlotte, NC
* Pinella Suncoast Transit Authority, St. Petersburg, FL

http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2009/06/dump-pump-with-new-transit-agencies-in.html

[TheTed]

I know they are planning on adding an online route planner in the future, but someone should probably suggest adding their route information to google.

This online route planner has finally appeared on tulsatransit.org. Still no google maps integration.

[sgrizzle]

This online route planner has finally appeared on tulsatransit.org. Still no google maps integration.

This is all I get:

The itinerary search timed-out.
Please try modifying your request, or see HELP for search tips on input.

If you need assistance, please contact MTTA Call Center at 918-582-2100. The call center hours are Monday- Friday 4:30am to 9:00 pm and on Saturday 5:00am to 9:00pm.

[shadows]

Gads I must have slept though that one. Tulsa has a transit system?  There I thought those were traveling sign boards that one could rent the space on. 
Still at times I thought those painted box cars were the reincarnation of the hippies.

In the meanwhile they should be painted all of one neutral color where the citizen could see and recognize it as a city bus as it approaches which would make them more aware that a transit system was in place.   They see enough billboards as they go down any major street.  Advertise the city with a standard color, not that of a private ventures.

[Red Arrow]

Advertise the city with a standard color, not that of a private ventures.

Better yet, advertise the path of the vehicles with steel rails.

[shadows]

Better yet, advertise the path of the vehicles with steel rails.

I remember the trolley quite well but the coming of the GM bus made the trolley obsolete as the city decentralized as was predicted to happen after WWll.  In the decentralization the division of the office worker demanding more access drove the retailers out of the down town only to establish a series of grids of shopping centers which made it impossible to maintain a rail system.  Previously Tulsans were too busy cheating the Indians out of the minerals in the lands they were driven as cattle on, to start an underground rail system of five segments two miles long.

Tulsa is number one in hindsight over foresight.  Now it is going to increase the out of pocket taxes on its citizens and give it to the floundering Corporate America who will bleed the citizens until they run out of money with the threat "if you don't  we'll just leave". 

Now the Indian casinos are scalping the paleface's gods.

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I remember the trolley quite well but the coming of the GM bus made the trolley obsolete as the city decentralized as was predicted to happen after WWll. 

Tulsa was one of the earlier systems to succumb to GM, Firestone, and Standard Oil.  Mid 30s I believe.  The Sand Springs Trolley ran until the 50s from what I've read.  I think Heiron remembers some trolleys but I can't find any other evidence of trolleys in Tulsa beyond what I just mentioned.

[rdj]

The automobile companies bought the trolley manufacturers and related entities.  Next thing you know, no more trolleys!  Interesting how that works.

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The automobile companies bought the trolley manufacturers and related entities.  Next thing you know, no more trolleys!  Interesting how that works.

Mostly what happened was the GM, Firestone, and Standard Oil created a bus company (National City Bus, I think) that bought up the trolley operating companies and then substituted buses.  The trolley manufacturers had problems since cities weren't buying trolleys.  Brill (Philadelphia, PA) bought up a bunch of other trolley manufacturers and eventually made some buses too.  St Louis Car Co (trolley car, not automobile) made trolleys to the very late 40s and maybe a few years into the 50s. Pullman made some PCC trolleys which would have been 30s and 40s mostly. 

I'll have to re-check but I don't believe the automobile companies bought the major trolley manufacturing companies.  They may have bought up a few of the smaller ones.