Tulsa Topics

Sometimes storms come on quickly and do their damage and all that is left after the storm passes is the cleanup. My parents live close to the fairgrounds and there is still evidence in the form of fallen trees and broken branches in the neighborhood. The microburst that hit the area for mere minutes caused tremendous damage.

The big storm that is brewing in Tulsa's future will be man made. This storm is the South Tulsa Bridge. From today's Tulsa Whirled:

The Bixby City Council on Monday unanimously accepted "beneficiary interest" in the Arkansas River Bridge Authority. Bixby will join Jenks, which also plans to accept interest in the bridge, to form a public trust.

Tulsa's suburban children have grown up over the years and it appears they are announcing their "coming out" party with authority. After all the motherly support Tulsa has given them via cheap water, sporting good store deals, subsidies to various employers that benefit the suburbs, etc., now they want more.

Just like the downtown arena that was nixed twice before taken county wide with V2025, our neighbors to the South are learning that if at first you don't succeed, try try again. The lesson here folks would be that nothing is unobtainable when you pump enough money, politicians, lawyers, and our local monopolistic rag into the equation.

Take for instance this passage from today's article:

City of Tulsa legal experts also assert that Bixby and Jenks cannot condemn the Tulsa land that would be needed for the north end of the bridge. But Bixby and Jenks say they can seize the land by eminent domain, if necessary. All three entities cite Supreme Court case law to back their claims.

Peering into my cloudy crystal ball. Here's how this will play out:

• All sides will begin to "lawyer up."
• Campaign contributions from PAC's will abound. This will buy a sympathetic ear or the proverbial seat at the table
• Planners and so-called experts will be hired and re-hired to do many costly studies on the impact of surrounding neighborhoods.
• More lawyers will be hired because "their" side has more than "our" side.
• Court cases will plug the county court dockets.
• A bigger county court house will be built to handle the additional traffic.
• Lawyers will be hired to replace those that have died of old age.
• More planners and experts will have to completely re-do the previous studies since they have been shelved for so long they are outdated.
• Since Tulsa is now a ghost town and the population epicenter is now Jenks, the county court house is demolished in Tulsa and a brand spanking shiny new court house is built between Bixby and Jenks with V2050 money.
• The paper continues to editorialize... "Bridge Makes Sense" even though today's vehicles run off fuel cells that control a magnetic plasma drive and makes the Hummer the covered wagon of yesteryear.
• V2100 earmarks $7.6 billion dollars for lawyer staff and planners for North Jenks bridge.
• The Jenks Whirled editorializes.... "Money wasted on North Jenks bridge with destination to no where."
• More studies authorized when it's realized that the previous studies got "lost in the move" to the new JNOG (Jenks Nations of Government) facility.
• The planets align and ground breaking of the North Jenks bridge finally to begin.
• The United Nations stops construction due to an endangered species being found on the South bank of the Arkansas...... the elusive native Tulsan.