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"Good mass transit is illegal in Tulsa. Transit friendly and pedestrian friendly are the same thing. With our, and our suburbs, minimum parking requirements, laws against being able to build mixed use developments, like living above shops, etc. etc. in by far most parts of the city... most people will not walk anywhere even if they want to. All the money in the world will not make Tulsa a transit friendly city (aka a city where enough people use transit and transit that is efficient and cost effective) until we change our zoning. In downtown you can build transit friendly/pedestrian friendly developments, and even there we often do not, but downtown in isolation won't get you decent transit to and from other areas of the city. I was in south Tulsa suburbia the other day off 71st and you could juuust make out the curvature of the earth between the Mattress King and the Best Buy. That is NOT the sign of a pedestrian or transit friendly development. Nobody is going to take a bus, train, trolley, whatever over there, and for that matter 90% or more of our city, and get off it to go shopping or to and from work. Also, so many of our new neighborhoods are designed to be car oriented only. Neighborhoods that are gated, only have one or two entrances and exits, whose streets are not on a grid of any sort but have dead end culdesacs, don't allow people to easily walk to the nearest bus stop on an arterial, or to any nearby shopping or work. We have intentionally zoned and designed our city and neighborhoods to be anti-mass transit and until that changes you will spend yourself to death trying to make transit work well. Even just changing our zoning laws to allow it to be legal would be a big start."
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