Streets improving Do you find the nearly 8,100 miles of roads in Oklahoma City to be of good quality? If you do, then you’re in the minority. Survey results from the city’s public works department show that just 35 percent of city residents are satisfied with the condition of local streets. However, that’s just a […]
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Commentary: Spending to reduce debt
I want to agree with Oklahoma Gazette Editor-in-Chief Jennifer Chancellor’s May 14 statement on public radio that Oklahoma City’s investments in infrastructure help level the playing field between rich and poor. The MAPS accomplishments are revitalizing OKC, now the envy of hundreds of American cities. True, most improvements benefitted our downtown and the bankers and […]
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Commentary: Building better streets the best way
So why would we even consider doing this wrong and reestablishing a physical barrier that bifurcates these burgeoning areas?
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Crowd of 20,000 hits Open Streets OKC
“We are super pleased with the turnout and couldn’t be happier,” said Kristin Culver, a supervisor with Wellness Now, which helped put on the Open Streets OKC event on March 30. Event organizers said initial estimates were that the crowd could top 20,000. Along the nearly one mile stretch of 23rd St. that was closed […]
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The issues
Mick Cornett 1. Public safety: “We can have all the quality-of-life amenities, but if people don’t feel safe in their neighborhoods, it’s meaningless. That’s why the last decade, we’ve consistently put two-thirds of our budget towards public safety, we’ve used the MAPS 3 use tax to fund a new police fleet and new police helicopters, […]
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WEATHER: Street crews at the ready
Workers driving 30 to 34 trucks will begin salting city snow routes once ice or snow starts to accumulate on roadways or ground temperatures dip below freezing. A snow route map is listed on the city’s website at www.okc.gov/prepare/winter.html. According to Yager, city road crews will work 12-hour shifts until the winter weather improves. OKC’s […]
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On the road again
Initially discussed in 1996 as part of the Interstate 40 crosstown relocation, the would-be boulevard could take shape as a landscaped, four-lane, tree-lined gateway into and out of the downtown area, if city officials have their way. Oklahoma City Council recommended to ODOT — the agency responsible for the project — a boulevard option that […]
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Smart traffic
As part of the city’s ongoing Intelligent Traffic System (ITS), stoplights communicate through Wi-Fi to keep lights green longer along certain corridors. The project is a part of the 2000 and 2007 bond issues to create traffic corridors throughout the city. More than 320 intersections are affected by 18 corridors, 14 of which are already […]
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Street heat
Two features of the street creating discussion are a western portion that will be above grade at the level of the old I-40 and a section that will go under the north-south railway. A third issue, however, has received little public attention: the undecided route to Bricktown from the future major thoroughfare. Although current maps […]
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Parking info
N.E. 3RD STREET N.E. 3rd Street between E.K. Gaylord and Walnut Avenue closes at 2:00 p.m. Oklahoma Avenue between N.E. 4th Street and N.E. 2nd Street closes at 2:00 p.m. BROADWAYBroadway between 2nd (Kerr) and 10th Street closes at 6 p.m. Braodway crossings at 4th, 5th, 7th, 8th, and 9th Streets close at 6 p.m. […]