omaja wrote:A little something I whipped up today. Omaha in 2050? :;):
Click on the image to see the entire network.
This is great.
It's tough knowing that Omaha used to have one of the largest street car systems around. At least we're not as bad as Cincinnati and have an abandoned subway underneath.
I made this lighrt rail map today. It's my idea of a realistic system that Omaha could have in 10 or so years. It's basically an initial phase map made in the Metro Transit style.
This map corresponds to the Google map below, which is a map of the extent of the service who knows how far in the future after the initial phase.
Ultimately, there's a lot of overlap with those lines. You could either eliminate the dark blue line all together, and just extend the lighter blue line to Crossroads. Or, just eliminate all of the segment of the light blue line that goes west from the Old Market.
Looks convincing enough.
"The right to have access to every building in the city by private motorcar in an age when everyone possesses such a vehicle is actually the right to destroy the city."
Lewis Mumford, The Highway and the City, 1963
StreetsOfOmaha wrote:Ultimately, there's a lot of overlap with those lines. You could either eliminate the dark blue line all together, and just extend the lighter blue line to Crossroads. Or, just eliminate all of the segment of the light blue line that goes west from the Old Market.
Looks convincing enough.
Thanks
The idea with the Red Line extending west is to 1) make it so people coming from Bellevue don't have to transfer to the Blue Line to get to Downtown and Midtown and 2) make for more frequent service between the Midtown/Medical Center station and the Old Market station since that would potentially be the densest and most traveled segment in the system. It would alternate trips to Midtown and trips to the airport.
I've actually made schedules for both of the lines in the map I made. Both routes are 30 minutes in duration (they'd probably be faster in real life; I've left extra time since I'm guessing) and run every 30 minutes. The schedules line up so there's 15 minute frequency in both directions between the Midtown/Medical Center station and the Old Market station. Eventually, the Blue Line would extend much farther west so even though in the map there's a large percentage of overlap, there will be less redundancy in the future future.
