Tulsa World
by: World's Editorial Writers
Thursday, July 07, 2011
7/7/2011 5:16:03 AM
After years of planning and frustrating starts and stops, the Boulder Avenue bridge in downtown looks as if it will finally be replaced.
Sooner would have been better, but that it will be completed by next summer is important.
Mayor Dewey Bartlett, along with other city leaders, announced that construction would begin in September on the $8.2 million span that will make the important connection of the heart of downtown to the blossoming Brady Arts District and north Tulsa.
Bartlett said the new bridge "will provide a needed link, for both vehicles and pedestrians, between the restaurants, entertainment venues and cultural attractions in the Brady District and ONEOK Field, the BOK Center and other portions of the downtown area."
He's right. It will give vehicles and pedestrians easier access over the busy railroad tracks to the Brady District from the BOK Center as well as hotels and restaurants in the downtown core... FULL ARTICLE
Posted on
Thu, July 7, 2011
by John Cox