A 2006 third penny tax money grab

[nathanm]

quote:Originally posted by Red Arrow


The Target planners must not have traveled south on Memorial from the turnpike or they wouldn't think 101st is right off the turnpike.

You must only drive Memorial between 7:30-8:30am and 4:30-6:00pm.

It's not that bad the rest of the time.

[Red Arrow]

quote:Originally posted by nathanm

quote:Originally posted by Red Arrow


The Target planners must not have traveled south on Memorial from the turnpike or they wouldn't think 101st is right off the turnpike.

You must only drive Memorial between 7:30-8:30am and 4:30-6:00pm.

It's not that bad the rest of the time.

It's not quite gridlocked but it is crowded on Saturdays around 10:30 to noon and around 6:00. Sundays aren't usually quite as bad but I'd still like to know where all the cars come from. Other times when I have a day off (to enable me to be on Memorial other than going to work) I am amazed at how many other people must also have the day off or be independently wealthy and don't have to work.  I don't take the Turnpike and Memorial driving home from work. From the Turnpike to 111th is busy enough that I'd rather take Delaware and 121st.  Plus, there are always the side by side idiots going 35 with nothing in front of them on Memorial. It's that or they leave 10 seconds between them and the car in front of them.  I know the difference for the 1-1/2 miles is only seconds but it is very annoying, kind of like fingernails on a blackboard.

[nathanm]

quote:Originally posted by Red Arrow

quote:Originally posted by nathanm

quote:Originally posted by Red Arrow


The Target planners must not have traveled south on Memorial from the turnpike or they wouldn't think 101st is right off the turnpike.

You must only drive Memorial between 7:30-8:30am and 4:30-6:00pm.

It's not that bad the rest of the time.

It's not quite gridlocked but it is crowded on Saturdays around 10:30 to noon and around 6:00. Sundays aren't usually quite as bad but I'd still like to know where all the cars come from. Other times when I have a day off (to enable me to be on Memorial other than going to work) I am amazed at how many other people must also have the day off or be independently wealthy and don't have to work.  I don't take the Turnpike and Memorial driving home from work. From the Turnpike to 111th is busy enough that I'd rather take Delaware and 121st.  Plus, there are always the side by side idiots going 35 with nothing in front of them on Memorial. It's that or they leave 10 seconds between them and the car in front of them.  I know the difference for the 1-1/2 miles is only seconds but it is very annoying, kind of like fingernails on a blackboard.

I totally agree with you on the idiots, but I find aside from rush hour and lunch Memorial isn't congested at all, aside from the aforementioned idiots who block things up driving slowly side by side.

That is, of course, when the lights are working. When they're broken, all bets are off, it'll get backed up from the new light at Regal Plaza all the way to 91st. At 2 in the afternoon, before all the parents who can't let their special kids ride the bus are out.

[Townsend]

http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=11&articleid=20090108_11_A1_Tafcbi371249


The "they" are making it look like that third penny sales tax was always supposed to go to 101st and memorial.

"The city of Tulsa is using $3 million from an economic development fund in the 2006 third-penny program to widen 101st Street from two lanes to five lanes between 84th East Avenue and about 500 feet west of the intersection with Memorial Drive, said Paul Zachary, Public Works Department deputy director of engineering."

Woo, feel sorry for you guys having to travel that area for a while.

[sgrizzle]

quote:Originally posted by Townsend


Woo, feel sorry for you guys having to travel that area for a while.

No-one worth talking about lives in that area anyway.

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