Plans for an Oklahoma City Boulevard have used bike lanes in all their design and promotional materials, but now that the job has been awarded to a contractor, the lanes have disappeared.
Oklahoma City has been planning a downtown boulevard for six years, all throughout that process the project has been pushed in part as a way to make the city more accessible for pedestrians and cyclists. Now that the project has been awarded to a contractor, plans show only a sidewalk and a road. Or, as city officials would have you call it, a pathway, because it is illegal to ride a bike on the sidewalk in Oklahoma City.
"Only when the construction bid was awarded last week and a new rendering was released did the public learn of the change, " Steve Lackmeyer reports for The Oklahoman.
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