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Next time you are on Gibson Street, youâll notice a new crosswalk connecting Oklahoma School for the Blind and Civitan Park. Students in Cheryl Danielsâ Service Learning class at Oklahoma School for the Blind repainted the crosswalk on May 13. With the help of Lacey Wallace and Jesse Garcia from Oklahoma State University Extension High Obesity Prevention (HOP) program and Doug Walton from the Muskogee County Health Department, students used yellow spray paint to make the railings leading to the crosswalk more visible and white paint and paint rollers to paint the crosswalk.
The project came about through the Connect Muskogee transportation planning initiative. This area of Gibson Street was identified as being in need of traffic calming on the Connect Muskogee pinpoint map survey conducted from October 2020 to January 2021. Based on this feedback the HOP team conducted speed radar surveys at the site in March and found the average speed was 29 mph. The highest s