The
following email was sent to Hunters Pointe
residents:
Dear Hunters Pointe Neighbors,
The following email has been forwarded to me
to distribute reminding everyone to vote
Tuesday. If you care which street (Yale or
Delaware / Riverside) will be the route for
thousands more cars every day when the
bridge is built, it's important to stay
informed and voice your opinion at the
polls. The links in this email tell where
each candidate stands on the bridge issue.
FYI, W.C. "Tiny" Tomsen, who wrote the
letter that appeared in the Tulsa World
yesterday is to my recollection the only
person who spoke in support of a Yale
route at the early public meetings about the
bridge. The hundreds of other residents in
attendance from the neighborhoods along Yale
did not want Yale to be the designated
route. Bill Christiansen, our Councilor
who is criticized by Ken Neal of the Tulsa
World and W.C. Tomsen, came to his position
of not supporting a bridge at Yale because
he listened to what his constituents were
saying at the meetings about the bridge.
As 16-year residents of Hunters Pointe and
HP Board Members, my husband and I do not
think Yale would be a good choice. As you
know, except for the intersection at 101st,
Yale south of the Creek Turnpike is a
completely residential street. Jenks
Southeast Elementary sits at that
intersection and Town & Country School
(K-12) is about one block to the East. Jenks
Middle School is on 101st between Yale &
Delaware. There is a great deal of
school-related traffic on Yale, both buses
and cars. This becomes a safety issue even
more than it is now if thousands more cars
were to be added daily.
We are not against the bridge, but we are
against directing traffic up Yale. Delaware
south of 101st is largely undeveloped, flows
into Riverside Drive with a booming
commercial area, has a connection to the
Creek Turnpike, and is a good route to
downtown. Another plus of the bridge
connecting to Delaware would be some degree
of straightening at "Dead Man's Curve", the
very dangerous stretch of 121st & Delaware,
where many accidents have occured. There are
many reasons why connecting the bridge at
Delaware makes the most sense.
By the way, STCC, South Tulsa Citizen's
Coalition, is a name that those of us at the
early meetings decided on to represent
a unification among the neighborhoods. It is
not a small group, as some people have said
... it is all of us, more than 30
neighborhoods along Yale.
Thank you,
Hunters Pointe Volunteer for STCC (name
withheld by STCC)
