Tulsa City Council OKs exception to Bartlett Amendment for Riverside Drive widening
By KEVIN CANFIELD World Staff Writer on Aug 9, 2013, at 2:26 AM Updated on 8/22/13 at 3:52 PM
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City councilors approved an exception to the so-called Bartlett Amendment on Thursday.
The exception clears the way for the city to include funding to widen Riverside Drive as part of the proposed $919.9 million capital improvements package without a separate vote on the proposed parkway improvements.
Then-City Councilor Dewey Bartlett proposed the amendment - and the City Council approved it - in the early 1990s in response to a conceptual plan that called for widening Riverside Drive to six or eight lanes.
Bartlett, who is now the mayor, has said he proposed the amendment to ensure that future work along Riverside Drive that might infringe upon the River Parks trail system would not be funded without a vote of the people.
As part of its proposed capital improvements package, the city has proposed spending $19 million to widen the roadway from 24th Street to 33rd Place.
The road work would coincide with the construction of A Gathering Place for Tulsa, a $250 million park planned along the same stretch of Riverside Drive.
City officials have said that although construction of the park will actually add land to the River Parks trail system on the west side of Riverside Drive, they sought the exception to the Bartlett Amendment out of an abundance of caution.
Original Print Headline: City Council OKs exception to Bartlett Amendment for Riverside Drive
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The driver had a suspended license, police said.
Adm. William F. Halsey, commander of the 3rd Fleet rode a white horse in Tokyo but he didn't enjoy it. In fact, he said "I was never so scared in my life."
