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Oklahoma City: First OKC streetcar is expected to arrive in fall 2017
First OKC streetcar is expected to arrive in fall 2017by William Crum Published: September 17, 2015
Oklahoma City residents can expect to get an up-close look at their first "modern" streetcar. ... It will be awhile longer before they see it in action. ... Under a schedule included in the contract with Czech Republic-based manufacturer INEKON Group a.s., the first of five streetcars is expected to arrive in the fall of 2017.
Lengthy negotiations produced a contract with a "good company," incorporating a "a good schedule" for Oklahoma City, streetcar consultant Rick Gustafson said Thursday. ... "Things have worked nicely for them," Gustafson said.
Oklahoma City hopes to avoid manufacturing problems that delayed for a year deliveries of a nearly identical vehicle by INEKON for Seattle's First Hill line. ... The First Hill streetcar was expected to begin operations in early 2014, but testing continued into this fall without passenger service beginning. ... Gustafson said much of the problem centered on efforts to manufacture some of the First Hill streetcars in Europe and some in the Seattle area. ... Oklahoma City's streetcars are to be built in the INEKON factory in Ostrava-Martinov, Czech Republic, eliminating those complications, he said.
Powered by electricity from overhead wires and batteries, the streetcars will run on rails embedded in the streets, following a 4.6-mile loop through the central business district.
Oklahoma City residents can expect to get an up-close look at their first "modern" streetcar. ... It will be awhile longer before they see it in action. ... Under a schedule included in the contract with Czech Republic-based manufacturer INEKON Group a.s., the first of five streetcars is expected to arrive in the fall of 2017.
Lengthy negotiations produced a contract with a "good company," incorporating a "a good schedule" for Oklahoma City, streetcar consultant Rick Gustafson said Thursday. ... "Things have worked nicely for them," Gustafson said.
Oklahoma City hopes to avoid manufacturing problems that delayed for a year deliveries of a nearly identical vehicle by INEKON for Seattle's First Hill line. ... The First Hill streetcar was expected to begin operations in early 2014, but testing continued into this fall without passenger service beginning. ... Gustafson said much of the problem centered on efforts to manufacture some of the First Hill streetcars in Europe and some in the Seattle area. ... Oklahoma City's streetcars are to be built in the INEKON factory in Ostrava-Martinov, Czech Republic, eliminating those complications, he said.
Powered by electricity from overhead wires and batteries, the streetcars will run on rails embedded in the streets, following a 4.6-mile loop through the central business district.