West gateway in Tulsa going up

Yesterday, I received this photo from “Route 66: The Mother Road” author and Route 66 Alliance co-founder Michael Wallis. Apparently the Route 66 gateway on Southwest Boulevard (aka Route 66) on the west side of Tulsa, near Crystal City Shopping Center, was being built.

The east Route 66 gateway on 11th Street just east of Interstate 44 was nearly finished last week.

Those are among the last Route 66 projects of Vision 2025 sales tax, approved in 2003. The last item will by the Route 66 Experience museum at the banks of the Arkansas River. The museum is planned as a public-private effort by the city and the Route 66 Alliance. The alliance will have to raise millions of dollars to cover its part of the construction.

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