City applying for state funds to complete crosswalk project

Sequoyah County Times
 By Lynn Adams

September 30, 2022

The Sallisaw Board of Commissioners has approved a resolution allowing the city to apply to the Oklahoma Department of Transportation to use Transport Alternatives Program (TAP) funds for construction and installation of crosswalk signals and traffic control systems at Cherokee Avenue and Elm Street.

The project entails what George Bormann, director of grants and economic development for the city, says is “the complete kit and caboodle — push-button poles, traffic lights, everything.”

Detailed in the application that is being submitted today to ODOT is four-way, push-button access across Elm and Cherokee, connecting the downtown district to the public library and farmers market area, providing “a safe pedestrian crosswalk, especially with the swimming complex and the skateboard park coming, too. It will just be another avenue that we’ll have safe crossing across the highway,” Bormann told the commissioners at Thursday’s special meeting.

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