Posted by Steve Lackmeyer on March 21, 2011M at 4:01 pm
OKC Central - NewsOK
The Oklahoma City Council tomorrow will be asked to spend $168,000 to make a pedestrian passage more “inviting” and “aesthetically pleasing” for visitors.
This news might please the hundreds of residents who call Deep Deuce home and see a large fenced in grate along NE 2 that blocks their path to and from the central business district. Maybe, just maybe, this improvement is aimed at moving the water meter under that grate and restoring it as a normal sidewalk. Developers investing tens of millions along the street to build a hotel, apartments and a grocery can’t be blamed if they get excited thinking this city-created eyesore is about to eliminated.
As reported previously, the grate along NE 2 just west of Oklahoma Avenue was installed about five inches above the sidewalk surface when construction plans for the adjoining Second Street Lofts didn’t match up with those of the Oklahoma City Water/Wastewater Department for installation of a water meter below the grate.
Water utilities director Marsha Slaughter said the grate level couldn’t be altered without endangering her employees. She said the fenced area, which blocks off the center of the sidewalk, was the best solution, and that to move the water meter would cost “about $100,000 and a high annoyance factor during construction.” FULL ARTICLE
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Mon, March 21, 2011
by John Cox