It calls for a commuter rail system and includes $1.1 billion in proposed capital-improvement projects.
Tulsa World
By KEVIN CANFIELD World Staff Writer
Published: 7/16/2010 2:22 AM
Last Modified: 7/16/2010 6:47 AM
Jack Crowley thinks Tulsa is a fantastic place.
On Thursday night, he presented a plan to about 50 people at Tulsa Community College's Metro Campus on how it could be even better.
"The plan tends to be general; it tends to be flexible," Crowley said as he unveiled the city's proposed Downtown Area Master Plan. "It's not telling someone that they have to build a two-story building across the street."
But it does have specific objectives: to revitalize the downtown area; to connect downtown to the River Parks system; and to initiate local and regional rail transit.
Crowley said the development of some type of local rail transit is a key first step to creating a denser, more vital downtown.
"You need to be looking at it for the competitive reasons," he said. "But you also need to be looking at it for mobility, and mobility is going to become even more and more difficult" as fuel costs rise... FULL ARTICLE
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