If you went looking for BatesLine recently and found nothing, it's because the server was offline from late Tuesday, July 13, 2021, until sometime Wednesday evening, July 14, 2021. According to BatesLine's hosting provider, the downtime was "due to a MAC address conflict after a chassis swap. However, they were...
Posted by Michael Bates on July 20, 2021 6:06 PM
Strong Towns is once again using Black Friday to call attention to parking minimums, zoning laws that require a ridiculous amount of land to be set aside for off-street parking. #BlackFridayParking is a nationwide event drawing attention to the harmful nature of minimum parking requirements. Parking minimums create a barrier...
Posted by Michael Bates on November 29, 2019 11:09 AM
Tulsa's Young Professionals are holding a mile-long street festival tomorrow, Sunday, May 4, 2014, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., in the southern part of downtown Tulsa. The event, Street CReD 2014: Urban Core, will thread its way through Tulsa's championship parking crater with "music, art, food trucks, vendors, family-friendly...
Posted by Michael Bates on May 3, 2014 9:54 PM
My friend Tony Baker was featured on a KOTV News on 6 story tonight about his recent downtown Tulsa parking misadventure. In a nutshell, a $15 parking ticket was written on his vehicle when there was still an hour left on the meter. The time stamp on the credit card...
Posted by Michael Bates on April 3, 2013 10:25 PM
An edited version of this column was published in the May 28 - June 4, 2009, issue of Urban Tulsa Weekly. This was my final column for UTW, for reasons I explained in a blog entry at that time. The final paragraph was cut by the editor. The published version...
Posted by Michael Bates on May 27, 2009 7:57 PM
An edited version of this column was published in the April 29, 2009, edition of Urban Tulsa Weekly. The published version is no longer available online. Posted July 15, 2021. See the end of this entry for a postscript. Cityscope By Michael D. Bates Parking wars Will success spoil Tulsa's...
Posted by Michael Bates on April 29, 2009 7:34 PM
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