East 15th Street, Peoria Avenue to Lewis Avenue Accessible During Street Rehabilitation; Access to All Businesses Open Throughout Project

1/13/2020

During a street rehabilitation project on East 15^th Street between South Peoria Avenue and South Lewis Avenue, one lane of traffic is open in each direction – eastbound and westbound. Access to all businesses remains open throughout the project.

This includes the work that began recently in the Cherry Street District, on 15^th Street between Utica Avenue and Peoria Avenue. As between Lewis Avenue and Utica Avenue, one lane is open in each direction between Utica and Peoria. Although on-street parking is not available during construction, parking is available on all surface lots, which account for most business parking in the district. Access to sidewalks will remain open.

Project elements include:

• Mill, patch and overlay – new pavement
• 6-inch waterline replacement
• Stormwater drainage improvements to the inlets and pipe system
• Sidewalk repairs where needed
• Intersection bump-outs with curb and gutter (Utica – Peoria)
• Back-in angle parking on the north side of the street and parallel parking on the south side of the street between Quaker and Trenton avenues (west of Utica Avenue); no on-street parking east of Utica
• Pedestrian crossing improvements – restriping six crosswalks, each with two rapid flashing beacons, at all the collector streets between Utica and Peoria

Work on 15^th Street between Lewis Avenue and Utica Avenue is scheduled for completion in late spring. Work on 15^th Street between Utica Avenue and Peoria Avenue is scheduled for completion in the fall.

The City of Tulsa has contracted with Crossland Heavy Contractors for this $5,730,000 project, funded by the 2014 Improve Our Tulsa sales tax.