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Tulsa Mayor Hasn’t Ruled Out a Sidewalk Next to New Flagship Park
Earlier this week we reported on Tulsa Mayor Dewey Bartlett's decision to prevent construction of a sidewalk on Riverside Drive that would provide walking access to a major new city park. Local advocates say the lack of a sidewalk will make the park harder to get to on foot, and they don't buy the mayor's explanation that people will be safer if there's no sidewalk tempting them to walk.
December 11, 2014
Tulsa Mayor Wants to Cut Off Sidewalk Access to City’s Fabulous New Park
Tulsa, Oklahoma, is getting ready to build a new flagship park, called A Gathering Place -- a $350 million project supported entirely by private foundations, most notably the Kaiser Family Foundation. The park will contain a skate park, sports fields, a boat house, views of the Arkansas River, a "swing hill" and all sorts of other goodies. But thanks to Mayor Dewey Bartlett, it might lack one very basic amenity: sidewalk access.
December 9, 2014
Tulsa’s First Open Streets Event Reimagines Notorious Parking Crater
Typically, no one goes to the southern end of downtown Tulsa to socialize. This part of town has been so overrun with parking lots that Streetsblog readers crowned it the worst "parking crater" in the country in our first Parking Madness competition last year.
May 6, 2014