South Tulsa Bridge Update

[RecycleMichael]

I think Tulsa should put a toll gate on the road just past the bridge. We could use the money.

[Townsend]

I think Tulsa should put a toll gate on the road just past the bridge. We could use the money.

Somehow there's bound to be something that makes it illegal for a city/town in Oklahoma to raise funds that way.

[Conan71]

Somehow there's bound to be something that makes it illegal for a city/town in Oklahoma to raise funds that way.

Here’s an idea:

[Ibanez]

I think Tulsa should put a toll gate on the road just past the bridge. We could use the money.

They can call it The William J. Le Petomane Thruway

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbWg-mozGsU

[TheArtist]

Somehow there's bound to be something that makes it illegal for a city/town in Oklahoma to raise funds that way.

What?  Surely that isn't something our "keep government as small, efficient and as local as possible" Republicans would stand for?   Must have been a bunch of meddling Democrats who would put something like that into law.  Our Republicans will get rid of anything like that pronto.

[Conan71]

They can call it The William J. Le Petomane Thruway

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbWg-mozGsU

Harumph!

[Red Arrow]

You raise some good points. However, those commercial developments are 3-5 miles away from the subdivisions.

Put your suburbanite hat on for a minute. 3-5 miles is nothing in a car if the traffic isn't too much.  No one out here is really going to expect urban walkability.

If the area develops, it is likely that a commercial hub would go in anyway.

I am confident it will not be stuff like Whole Foods. I would expect a Chili's, Neighborhood Walmart, another CVS or Walgreen's.  Stuff that still misses the mark of something like Fresh Market or Whole Foods.

But to clarify, I don't think Tulsa should actively block the bridge. It certainly isn't devastating for Tulsa. Merely that I understand why Tulsa doesn't want to help pay for it. Eventually, the bridge is likely to happen - the question is, "on who's dime?"

See my previous posts about Bixby and Jenks paying for the bridge and helping with the improvements to Yale and Delaware.

[Red Arrow]

I think Tulsa should put a toll gate on the road just past the bridge. We could use the money.

Of course the burbs could counter with toll gates to leave Tulsa on any road they had money in.

Wow! What a way to spur even more commercial development in the burbs.  No reason to go to Tulsa other than the Courts.

Actually, a coworker in about 2004-2005 when we had office space cubes in the City Plex said he would be glad to pay $1 each way in tolls for a bridge over the river at Yale.  It would save him gas money compared to either Memorial or Peoria/Elm.