More Construction Ahead For Downtown
A summer of road construction is ahead for downtown Tulsa. The city is working on contracts to redo many of downtown's main streets, and work will start quickly because there's a deadline to getFriday, June 1st 2007, 9:52 am
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A summer of road construction is ahead for downtown Tulsa. The city is working on contracts to redo many of downtown's main streets, and work will start quickly because there's a deadline to get it done. The deadline is the opening of the arena, but the work can't start until the money is available and that's this summer. The News On 6’s Emory Bryan reports when it's done, downtown streets should be a smooth ride.
Downtown Tulsa is already a maze of road construction, and the word on the street is that a lot more is coming. The biggest project downtown right now is on Boston, but that's just a few blocks. Soon, more than a dozen blocks will be undergoing the same kind of work at the same time. On Boston and in much of the work ahead, crews will dig down to replace pipes underneath. On top they'll redo the lighting and the concrete curbs.
Downtown workers have learned to adapt by finding the constantly changing pathways to and from the office.
"Normally the funding is spread throughout the city, and so it is unusual to have this much funding to do this much work in one place at one time," said city engineer Henry SomdeCerff.
City engineers have mapped it all out and have the finish line in sight.
"The overall goal is to have all of this work done by the opening of the arena in September 2008," said SomdeCerff.
Some of the roughest roads surround the arena. Part of the reason is all the construction traffic, but the city plans to rebuild all of those streets. In fact, much of the work is on the streets that will feed traffic to the arena.
Many of the new sidewalks will be paved with bricks. Some of that work has already begun on Boston. That's the finishing touch, but there's a lot of heavy construction, like the job on 4th Street still to go, all planned to be done at the same time as the arena.
Watch the video: More Downtown Construction To Start This Summer
For a map of all the downtown Tulsa street projects, click here.
List of all downtown Tulsa projects...
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