Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Tulsa

Tulsa Mayor Hasn’t Ruled Out a Sidewalk Next to New Flagship Park

By Angie Schmitt | Dec 11, 2014 | 8 Comments

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 […]

Tulsa Mayor Wants to Cut Off Sidewalk Access to City’s Fabulous New Park

By Angie Schmitt | Dec 9, 2014 | 7 Comments

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 […]

Tulsa’s First Open Streets Event Reimagines Notorious Parking Crater

By Angie Schmitt | May 6, 2014 | 3 Comments

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. But last Sunday, thousands of people gathered smack in the middle […]

Will “Parking Madness” Champion Tulsa Punt on Reforms?

By Angie Schmitt | Sep 30, 2013

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 […]

St. Louis County’s David Wrone Is Our Champion Motor Mouth!

By Angie Schmitt | Aug 16, 2013 | 9 Comments

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. Wrone was the runaway winner in our recent “Motor Mouths” competition to find the most clueless statement from a transportation official, by demonstrating […]

Oklahoma Officials: Why Bother Trying to Prevent Pedestrian Deaths?

By Angie Schmitt | Aug 9, 2013 | 2 Comments

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. She was walking home from dinner in December when she was struck by a speeding driver. The perpetrator never stopped. JoAnn, who suffered 27 […]

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