Riverparks Parking solutions

[RecycleMichael]

There are plans to replace the trees, but not a firm timetable.

Up with Trees doesn't have a lot of say when the highway department (or the Indian casino further south) decides to take out some trees. They just keep planting more.

Up with Trees used to plant about 800 trees a year. This last six months alone they have planted over 3,000 trees and given away over 10,000 other medium sized trees.

[YoungTulsan]

From the cone layout on 51st between Lewis and Harvard it looks like they are probably about to lay waste to the beautiful Bradford pear trees that line the street and median.

[dbacks fan]

Ah, my mistake.  The part to the north of the highway actually has good trees.  South of the highway is mostly ratty grass with sporadic, mostly young trees- but the trees could be looking nice in a decade or so.  So I'm backtreading a little on my "Its only good as a parking lot" analysis.

I'm seeing a lot of "Up with trees" projects being laid to waste up and down I-44 with the widening project.  Kind of sad.  Does any tree transplanting take place or is it 100% blitzkrieg?

About the reverse lane, something tells me there are too many stupid people in this town that wouldn't understand the concept.  Every day there would be about 25 head-on collisions because someone who drove to work in that lane decided to drive up it again later to go out for dinner. (Had to edit this because I even confused my dumb self)

No problem, I looked again and from 31st going north there is no divider and at the pedesrian brige it would be a mjor project that would take away from the bridge to widen it there, even I would be opposed to that growing up in Tulsa, that's one thing I would not want to change.

About the reverse lanes, it took me a while when I moved here to get used to those and the HOV lanes on the freeways, and the regulations on the HOV have changed in the 12 years I've been here. As for people trying to use the reverse lanes for left turns during the regulated hours, the people here are not afraid to voice their thoughts either with their horns or their voices.

[sauerkraut]

So are you complaining about small markers or are you really bragging about running so fast?  

I don't like 'em you can't see them till your right on top of them, but you can start to watch for them when you know a mile marker is about to come up by looking at your watch, they looked to me like they were just spray painted on the pavement. I like to use the mile markers when I'm doing speed workouts. The city of Omaha has a huge network of jogging trails- www.omahatrails.com Click on the menu on the left and a list of the trails pop up, the trails have no street crossings they are like a interstate highway system for bikes & joggers. I'd like to see something like that in Tulsa.
The Funny thing is with all those trails Omaha has- I still find myself running on the same old trail all the time, a creature of habit I guess.. My favorite running trail when I'm in Omaha is the Wehrspann Lake Trail  a six mile loop trail that circles the lake and it has drinking water & tons of wildlife and ample parking it's better for running then cycling because the trail has alot of curves. Omaha Trails have mile markers every 1/10 of a mile.

[sauerkraut]

The cycling community is always tense about something.  I think it's part of the culture.

Parallel parking on Riverside sounds like guaranteed mayhem to me, mitigated by a 25 mph speed limit perhaps.  That road is awful narrow...  Seems like having only two lanes open, even during off-hours, would significantly stagnate traffic as well.

The Cycling community must be the same all over, in Omaha the cyclists think they own the Keystone Trail a major 23 mile long trail that runs from Fort Street to the Cornhusker highway in the south, cyclists like to race up & down that trail it's mostly flat with slight curves as the trail passes under streets and highways perfect for high speed cycling, The subject of cyclists spoiling the Keystone Trail for everyone else is a common topic on local talk radio shows. Normally for runners if you just keep to the right the cyclists don't care, but some rollerbladers and walkers with dogs who wonder all over the trail tick them off and have resulted in accidents. Some cyclists go so fast that by the  time they yell out "passing on your left" they are already past you.. About 5 years year ago two cyclists who were racing each other crashed into another cyclist going the oppiset direction in a blind underpass curve. A 42 year man was hit by lightning on the Keystone once as he was cycling. Anyhoo, I have not seen it that bad on Tulsa Trails... I would like to see dogs banned from the trails, dogs can now go to the dog parks. There is alot of dog poop all around Riverparks.

[Conan71]

Are there thick stands of trees where you can hide a dead body along the trails in Omaha?  Just curious.

[TURobY]

Are there thick stands of trees where you can hide a dead body along the trails in Omaha?  Just curious.

They have thick fields of corn instead. 

[charky]

I think they should ban geese from the trails. Been dodging too much geese poop lately.

[RecycleMichael]

Canadian geese produce one to two pounds of poop per day and the Discovery Channel did a study that showed some geese produce as much as five pounds a day.

Five pounds a day. That is like the amount of poop that comes out a Congressmen each day.

[dbacks fan]

Are there thick stands of trees where you can hide a dead body along the trails in Omaha?  Just curious.

Just looked at some of the pic's of their trails, and yes there are thick stands of trees, and better yet, a river. Or yo can travel outside the Omaha area and there are several abandoned Atlas Missile silos.

[Conan71]

Just looked at some of the pic's of their trails, and yes there are thick stands of trees, and better yet, a river.

Any cement block factories near by?  How far would I, er uh, someone have to carry them?

[Conan71]

Canadian geese produce one to two pounds of poop per day and the Discovery Channel did a study that showed some geese produce as much as five pounds a day.

Five pounds a day. That is like the amount of poop that comes out a Congressmen each day.

1/2 as much...

[dbacks fan]

Any cement block factories near by?  How far would I, er uh, someone have to carry them?

If you are willing to drive some, there are several abandoned Atlas Missile silos in the area.

[Conan71]

If you are willing to drive some, there are several abandoned Atlas Missile silos in the area.

If you want to waste a few hours, Google the name: Gordon Todd Skinner & missile silo.  Former Tulsan, Cascia Hall grad, sociopath, LSD manufacturer, and now a resident of the Federal Hilton at El Reno.

Cliff Notes version: He bought a missile silo near Wamego, Ks. turned it into an Austin Powers pad and was making massive quantities of LSD under the guise of having expanded his family's Gardner Spring company up there as a front.  Total freakazoid.

[dbacks fan]

If you want to waste a few hours, Google the name: Gordon Todd Skinner & missile silo.  Former Tulsan, Cascia Hall grad, sociopath, LSD manufacturer, and now a resident of the Federal Hilton at El Reno.

Cliff Notes version: He bought a missile silo near Wamego, Ks. turned it into an Austin Powers pad and was making massive quantities of LSD under the guise of having expanded his family's Gardner Spring company up there as a front.  Total freakazoid.

I have run across that a couple of times from other people, and have found it in my research on the Cold War. Have found some very interesting web sites on that topic, including every missile site/silo in the US for ICBM's, and the Nike and BOMARC defense sites for surface to air missiles and all of the DEW sites (Distance Early Warning) that lined north America from Alaska to Greenland, and have found out why the Canadians and Greenland hate the US for the toxic waste we left behind from the late 70's all the way to '88. I will have to look for it again but I found a picture of the Airbus 380 double decker landing in Greenland on one of our own old airstrips that is shorter than the runway at TIA for cold weather testimg.