Tulsa
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
Will “Parking Madness” Champion Tulsa Punt on Reforms?
Tulsa, Oklahoma, is Streetsblog's reigning "Parking Madness" champion -- earlier this year readers said its downtown was scarred by the worst parking crater in America. It seemed at the time like Tulsa was going to take action to mend its downtown, but recent news has not been so encouraging. Will Tulsa enact a new surface parking moratorium or continue bulldozing the city to make way for surface parking? It could all rest with an upcoming City Council decision.
September 30, 2013
St. Louis County’s David Wrone Is Our Champion Motor Mouth!
Sometimes public officials say regrettable things. But few of them display the flagrant disregard for part of their constituency that St. Louis County Department of Highways and Traffic spokesperson David Wrone has.
August 16, 2013
Oklahoma Officials: Why Bother Trying to Prevent Pedestrian Deaths?
As long as her granddaughter can remember, Tulsa resident JoAnn Carlson never drove a car. Even at age 80, Carlson would walk to work from her apartment near St. John’s hospital.
August 9, 2013
How Denver Repaired Its Epic Parking Crater
The above photo is downtown Denver in 1976.
May 13, 2013
Parking Madness Champion Tulsa Moves to Limit Surface Parking Downtown
Just last month, we were shaming Tulsa, Oklahoma, with our "Golden Crater" award for the downtown most riddled with surface parking lots. But today, we applaud the city for taking steps to reverse the plague of excess parking.
May 13, 2013