Quote Originally Posted by stile99 View Post
Well, we're not building 'whatever', so would you like to take another stab at making whatever your point is?
My apologies, sure. We’re building a cookie cutter gas station in area we are trying to showcase as our “look we’re moving away from cars.”

It’s smack dab in the middle of corridor that has a new urbanist community being built to the south and an area to north that was just reduced from four to two lanes with bike lanes as an effort to strengthen the areas appeal to active transportation and more pedestrian oriented development.

Furthermore, the road right next to it(Classen) is proposed to be reduced from six to four lanes with a bus lane as part of a BRT corridor.

But hey, lets just make sure we don’t let that area get too great. Let’s dead end western at a cul de sac for a new elevated boulevard we’re build and while we’re at it, let’s throw in a gas station that has no unique design, completely developed to get cars in and out as quick as possible(as the point to a gas station is to fuel cars), and is the complete opposite of what urban development is because a few people believe the area has no identity.

FYI, this was what was originally proposed: http://www.okctalk.com/showthread.ph...ght=13+Chelsea

It evolved from that glass build on the first to post to this: http://www.okctalk.com/content.php?r...Western-Avenue

So my point is actually several:

1. This development sucks.

2. This area does have identity. For the sake of arguement even if it didn’t this will set the areas identity— a cookie cutter gas station designed for cars with very little pedestrian interaction in mind.

3. This development sucks.

4. Actually part of 2 but this be a further blow to the western corridor which the city does things like narrow the road, reduce the speed limit, talks about how great the road is becoming for pedestrians and cyclists then allows OkDOT to end it right in the core as a cul de sac and further allows for a cookie gas station to be built.

5. This development sucks.

Don’t mind me though, if you support it then congratulations. You’ll get your gas station. I’ve never been a fan of OnCues as I’ve said and I don’t like the mega gas station concept in general.