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[quote]QUOTE: <i>Originally posted by RichardR369</i> <br /><br />Hopefully I'm in the right forum to post this question. <br /> <br />OKC's Union Station is on the National Register of Historical Places #78002884 but the Oklahoma Department of Transportation somehow has permission to destroy 2/3 of the station just as long as the building remains. <br /> <br />Can anybody provide advice on appealing something of this nature? Does anybody know how to get outside media involved in saving this station? Oklahoma City is so pro-destruction of this station that I'm looking at outside media outlets. <br /> <br />The Norman City Council almost passed a resolution to get the governor of Oklahoma invovled but they want to view the station first. Believe it or not, some of them didn't know that it existed. Neither did I for that matter but once I found it, I'm attempting to make it useful once again and/or save it from destruction. <br /> <br />Can anybody out there assist me regarding this? <br /> <br />Regards, <br />Rich <br /> <br />[/quote] <br /> <br />When you say "destroy 2/3 of the station just as long as the building remains.", What exactly are they tearing down? The passenger concourses up by the tracks? The balloon tracks into the concourses? Other things? <br /> <br />If the first two, all I can say is "rotsa ruck"...in almost all of the "station savings" I've seen first hand, unless they serve some commercial purpose (commuter, freight, etc) they are the first to go, because they want to re-deploy the land use to something that will serve a purpose
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