Transportation in Tulsa, Oklahoma

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US-75 connects Downtown's inner-dispersal loop to Interstate 44 and Interstate 244
.
Tulsa Transit
's Denver Avenue Station

Transportation in

restaurants
reminiscent of the route's heyday era.

Oklahoma State University-Tulsa, CityPlex Towers, Cox Communications, the various medical facilities in Tulsa, and many shopping destinations, hotels, and schools. The bus schedules are periodically changed; votes are taken by Tulsa Transit to help decide what are the best specifics for certain routes.[1] Tulsa is also implementing a Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) line along Peoria Avenue from 54th Street North to 81st Street South which will feature more frequent buses, upgraded stations, and faster travel times, one of the first 12 cities to adopt such a system.[2]

History

Tulsa streets were simply dirt tracks until after the turn of the 20th century. The first contract for paving was awarded in 1906. Bricklaying did not begin until October of that year and proceeded slowly because local demand for bricks far exceeded the capacity of nearby brick plants.[3] Later, streets were paved with concrete or asphalt.

Streetcars

The Tulsa Street Railway Company (TSR) was formed in 1905 by a group of 18 private investors, led by real estate developer Grant Stebbins.

streetcars operating downtown along Main, Third and Fifth Streets.[5] One reference states that the street car lines were completed even before the streets were paved.[6] In 1913 TSR was forced to withdraw its service on Cincinnati Hill by the City of Tulsa due to the danger of cars sliding down the hill.[7] In 1909, the Oklahoma Union Traction Company (OUT) built another streetcar line that ran from Owen Park to 18th Street and Lewis, an area now known as Swan Lake. The route went through Downtown on Fourth Street, south on Elgin to 11th Street, and then turned south on Lewis. TSR then built a line from First and Peoria to Kendall College. By 1923, TSR owned 21 miles (34 km) of track and 52 trolley cars. Several more lines were built until the 1920s, when private cars and taxis became more abundant and ridership began to decline. TSR was sold in 1926 to United Service Company. The streetcar system was sold again in 1936 to National City Lines.[8]

OUT went bankrupt in 1935. The trolley wires and rails were removed, and public transportation turned exclusively to buses.[5]

Tourist Shuttle

Starting Nov 2, 2012 the city of

Blue Dome, Brady Arts, and Deco Districts, free of charge.[9][10]

Interurbans

In 1911, the

Union Pacific in Tulsa.[12]

Railroads

Into the late 1950s several trains of the

Iowa Pacific company planned and operated test commercial runs of the Eastern Flyer, a passenger train between Tulsa and Oklahoma City.[14]

Highways

State Highway 11 serves the Tulsa International Airport, connecting from I-244 and Highway 75. The Creek Turnpike
splits away from Highway 169 from the South and Interstate 44 from the East, bypassing most of the city of Tulsa and the suburb of Broken Arrow, eventually reconnecting with I-44 in Catoosa to the east and Jenks to the west.

Street network

Tulsa follows a systematic naming and numbering convention for all streets that are within its municipal jurisdiction. Admiral Place is the east–west-running dividing line for "streets north" and "streets south," and Main Street is the north–south-running dividing line for "west avenues" and "east avenues." Avenues west of Main Street are named for US cities west of the Mississippi River for one run of the alphabet, and afterward, numbered "west avenues" are assigned. Avenues east of Main Street are named for US cities east of the Mississippi River for approximately three runs of the alphabet, and afterward, numbered "east avenues" are assigned. Streets north of Admiral Place have important names in Tulsa's history for one run of the alphabet, and afterward, numbered "streets north" are assigned. Streets south of Admiral Place are numbered, beginning with "1st Street" and continuing southward. Street names and numbers are consistent throughout the Tulsa jurisdiction, regardless of whetyger a particular street is contiguous or continuous.

Addresses reflect their associated hundred block from either Admiral or Main. There are usually 16 blocks per mile, as counted by avenues, and there are 10 blocks per mile, as counted by streets. Other right-of-way labels (such as Place, Court, Drive, Terrace, etc.) may be used to describe an intermittent street or avenue, but the actual name will usually be the same as the adjacent street or avenue (such as Knoxville Avenue and its neighboring Knoxville Place, which are both assigned as the 3600 block east).

Major arterial streets can be found at every mile, as assigned by the township-and-range system, resulting in a well-defined grid of thoroughfares across the Tulsa region. As an example, east–west thoroughfares south of Admiral Place are streets ending with a 1, giving 11th Street, 21st Street, 31st Street, etc.

See also

External links

  • Tulsa Transit
  • Bates, Michael. "Tulsa streetcar and interurban lines in Google Maps." December 15, 2009. Retrieved January 10, 2011. [3]

References

  1. ^ Route 117 and 118 Proposed Changes Archived June 25, 2013, at the Wayback Machine. Tulsa Transit (June 3, 2013). Retrieved on 2013-08-17.
  2. ^ "City unveils Bus Rapid Transit stop that 'will open the entire city' from downtown, official says". Tulsa World. Retrieved January 16, 2019.
  3. ^ TulsaGal Website "Street paving." March 1, 2010. Accessed December 28, 2010.[1]
  4. ^ Gerkin, Steve. Electric to Eco Trolley: Champions of Tulsa Transportation." This Land Press August 20, 2011. Retrieved December 19, 2014.
  5. ^ a b "Tulsa Preservation Commission - Transportation (1850 - 1945)."
  6. ^ a b TulsaGal Website "Streetcars." March 13, 2010. Accessed December 28, 2010.[2]
  7. ^ "Order No. 742", Seventh Annual report of the Corporation Commission of the State of Oklahoma for the year ending 30 June 1914, Oklahoma City, 1914.
  8. ^ "Transit Systems in Oklahoma." Retrieved December 19, 2014.
  9. ^ http://www.tulsaworld.com/scene/article.aspx?subjectid=208&articleid=20121101_455_WK31_CUTLIN718134# [dead link]
  10. ^ http://www.tulsaworld.com/scene/article.aspx?subjectid=208&articleid=20121103_44_D1_CUTLIN108186 [dead link]
  11. ^ Gregory, Carl N. Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture, "Sand Springs." Accessed December 28, 2010.
  12. ^ "Tulsa Sapulpa Union Railway Website. Accessed December 29, 2010". Archived from the original on January 27, 2011. Retrieved July 24, 2022.
  13. ^ Santa Fe timetable Spring/Summer 1958 http://streamlinermemories.info/SF/SF58TT.pdf
  14. ^ "Passenger rail between Tulsa and OKC? Company seeks another Eastern Flyer operator". Tulsa World, June 22, 2018. Retrieved January 25, 2019.
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