{"id":1524,"date":"2016-08-02T12:24:17","date_gmt":"2016-08-02T17:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.route66alliance.org\/?p=1524"},"modified":"2016-08-02T12:24:17","modified_gmt":"2016-08-02T17:24:17","slug":"city-council-and-local-leaders-tour-route-66-through-tulsa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.route66alliance.org\/?p=1524","title":{"rendered":"City Council and local leaders tour Route 66 through Tulsa"},"content":{"rendered":"

Originally published in the Tulsa World<\/a>.
\n<\/em>Written by\u00a0JARREL WADE, World Staff Writer on\u00a0Wednesday, July 27, 2016.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Ken Busby, executive director of the Route 66 Alliance, talks with City Councilor Connie Dodson at the Crystal City shopping center during a tour of Route 66 through Tulsa on Tuesday. MATT BARNARD\/Tulsa WorldCity councilors and other local leaders hopped on a bus Tuesday to see where the rubber meets the road along Route 66\u2019s path through Tulsa.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

With some Vision Tulsa sales-tax money going to help commercial revitalization, including along the Mother Road, the officials wanted to see the entire 24-mile stretch of Route 66 through town.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cYou don\u2019t even realize the scope of what we have in Tulsa on Route 66,\u201d City Councilor Anna America said. \u201cWe do a terrible job of capitalizing on that. There\u2019s limited signage and limited opportunity for people to know where to stop and shop on Route 66.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Private, nonprofit and public officials took the trip, which was on a Tulsa Transit bus.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cLooking at it today, we have all kinds of shops and things to do,\u201d America said. \u201cWe need to direct people there. \u2026 There\u2019s 2 million that drive the (national) length of Route 66 every year, and we lose them on stopping here because we don\u2019t have the signage.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The purposes of the ride were to become familiar with Tulsa\u2019s stretch of Route 66 and to brainstorm ideas for supporting preservation and commercial revitalization.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Ken Busby, executive director of the Route 66 Alliance, said the city has a lot of potential for growth along the roadway.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cI\u2019m extremely optimistic Tulsa\u2019s Route 66 will generate more sales tax revenue by attracting even more visitors from all over the country,\u201d Busby said in a news release.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Route 66 historian and author Michael Wallis, the trip\u2019s tour guide, fell on the bus and apparently dislocated his right ring finger, America said. An EMSA ambulance then met the tour at the first stop \u2014 the Crystal City shopping center in west Tulsa \u2014 and put a splint on Wallis\u2019 finger.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cHe got it caught on a strap and then fell trying to hold onto it,\u201d America said. \u201cAs a mom, I always have medicine. So I gave him some ibuprofen.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Jarrel Wade 918-581-8367
\njarrel.wade@tulsaworld.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Historian and author Michael Wallis leads a tour of Route 66 through Tulsa on Tuesday while City Councilors Jeannie Cue (left) and Anna America and Ken Busby, executive director of the Route 66 Alliance, look at the scenery. MATT BARNARD\/Tulsa World<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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