O’Connor: OKC projects enhance quality of life
Cathy O’Connor
Our Oklahoma City Planning Department has been updating our citywide bicycle and pedestrian plan to have a walkable, bikeable city for both leisure and transportation. Public Works has made great enhancements with more projects underway to build a connected and safe bicycling and pedestrian network. Bikewalkokc is Oklahoma City’s first master plan for cyclists and pedestrians, adopted by the City Council in the spring of 2018. The passage of MAPS 4 requires some adjustments and refinements to these planned pedestrian and trail projects.
One of our more significant pedestrian projects is the crossing signal just completed at NW 10th Street between Tulsa and Meridian. Funded with the Better Streets Safer City sales tax, this mid-block signal allows pedestrians, parents with strollers, people in wheelchairs and bikes to safely cross and access nearby residences, shopping and bus stops. Early in the planning, a determ
1 Man In Critical Condition After NW OKC Auto-Pedestrian Accident
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Birds In Oklahoma Impacted By Record Cold Temperatures
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An unrelenting winter weather pattern – one of the most merciless in years – showed no signs of letting up Tuesday as it left a trail of destruction, power outages and subzero temperatures across dozens of states.
And more foul weather was on the way: Another winter storm with snow and ice was forecast to pummel portions of the South and Midwest on Wednesday before slamming into the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast on Thursday.
In all, as of late Tuesday, 115 million Americans were in the path of the next storm, all the way from Texas to Massachusetts, the weather service said.
At least 20 people have died as a result of a series of storms that moved from coast to coast over the past few days, including three in a tornado that tore through a seaside North Carolina town late Monday night.