PICTURES OF THE WEEK VIII
Posted April 23, 2004: Holmes Peak, the red dot at the upper left of this Tulsa World map as well as the tallest natural point in the Tulsa area, has been designated the site of "The American", the largest bronze statue ever constructed. When completed it will stand at 176-feet, over 25 feet taller than the Statue of Liberty.
What does this have to do with a road web site? The statue, and the tourist dollars it will bring in to the area, provides a major reason for completing the Gilcrease Expressway (the green dashed line on the map) from Lewis all the way to 51st Street south of the river. Thanks to "The American", the Gilcrease Expressway, primarily a dashed-line proposed highway on road maps for the past fifty years, may now finally be completed in the next ten!
Posted May 3, 2004: A few hundred feet southwest of Holmes Peak, looking southeast toward Tulsa from the closest-existing road to the peak. The view will be even more spectacular from the planned observation post within "The American" statue to be built on the peak. After seeing the site I can think of no better place in the area for the statue to go. And after seeing the roads in this area I have determined that completion of the Gilcrease Expressway is not just a pipe dream or wishful thinking: it is an absolute necessity!
Week of May 10, 2004: The Osage/Tisdale Expressway north of downtown Tulsa, northbound at the newly-opened Apache St. exit. For years the expressway as such ended here, a regular intersection at Apache with either stop signs or traffic lights. Bridges going over Apache have recently been completed, making the end of the expressway now 36th St. North.
Week of May 17, 2004: Eastern terminus of OK-67, in Bixby. The crossroad is going north-south and US-64 is signed here as north-south, despite the fact that for the rest of its existence it's an east-west highway.
Week of May 24, 2004: Northern terminus of NM-406, in the far northeastern corner of New Mexico. The crossroad ahead is NM-456 (the dual arrows appear to be missing from the sign at right; then again, this may be the way they do it in New Mexico), which becomes OK-325 just a few miles east of this spot.
Week of May 30, 2004: Historical marker along US-62, on the Oklahoma/Texas State Line.
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