Tulsa, Oklahoma

==Infrastructure==
===Transportation===
{{Main|Transportation in Tulsa, Oklahoma}}
[[File:Downtown Tulsa Bus Stop.jpg|thumb|The Tulsa Transit bus network, operating from its Denver Avenue Station transit center in downtown, helps meet city infrastructure needs.]]

Transportation in Tulsa is aided by [[Tulsa Transit]]'s bus network of 97 vehicles<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.okladot.state.ok.us/transit/tulsag.htm | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060111042810/http://www.okladot.state.ok.us/transit/tulsag.htm | archive-date=January 11, 2006| title=Oklahoma Publicly Funded Transportation Systems | publisher=[[Oklahoma Department of Transportation]]| access-date=April 29, 2006}}</ref> and two primary airports, while the [[Tulsa Port of Catoosa]] provides transportation of goods and industry through international trade routes.

====Highways====
Tulsa has an extensive highway system that connects many cities in the region such as Joplin, Missouri on the [[Will Rogers Turnpike]] and Oklahoma City on the [[Turner Turnpike]]. Most commuters use the highway system in Tulsa to get to and from work. Highways that run through Tulsa are [[Interstate 44|I-44]], [[Interstate 244|I-244]], [[U.S. Route 412|US-412]], [[U.S. Route 169|US-169]], [[Oklahoma State Highway 66|OK-66]], [[U.S. Route 64|US-64]], [[U.S. Route 75|US-75]], [[Oklahoma State Highway 11|OK-11]], [[Oklahoma State Highway 51|OK-51]], [[Creek Turnpike]], and [[Gilcrease Expressway]]. In 2011, the [[Oklahoma Department of Transportation]] reported that Tulsa's busiest freeway was US-169 with about 121,500 vehicles daily between 51st and 61st Streets, and its second busiest freeway was OK-51 with about 104,200 vehicles between Memorial and I-44.<ref>{{cite web | year=2005 | url=http://www.okladot.state.ok.us/aadtcnt/map.aspx?map=Tulsa%20%20County | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070605015756/http://www.okladot.state.ok.us/hqdiv/p-r-div/maps/aadt/urbanarea05.pdf | archive-date=June 5, 2007| title=2005 Annual Average Daily Traffic | format=PDF | publisher=Oklahoma Department of Transportation | access-date=April 15, 2006}}</ref>  Surrounding Downtown is the Inner Dispersal Loop (sometimes called the "I-D-L"), which connects Downtown with almost all the highways in Tulsa.
[[File:Tulsa, OK Greyhound Station entrance - 2023-3-17.jpg|thumb|Entrance to the [[Greyhound Lines|Greyhound]] bus station located near downtown]]

====Buses====
[[Metropolitan Tulsa Transit Authority|Tulsa Transit]], the city's [[transit bus]] operator, runs 97 buses on 19 different routes across Tulsa and in surrounding suburbs such as [[Broken Arrow, Oklahoma|Broken Arrow]], [[Sand Springs, Oklahoma|Sand Springs]] and [[Jenks, Oklahoma|Jenks]]. Tulsa Transit has two stations: the Memorial Midtown Station at 7952 E. 33rd St. in Midtown Tulsa, and the Denver Avenue Station at 319 S. Denver, across from the [[BOK Center]] in [[Downtown Tulsa|Downtown]]. Most routes go through one or both of the stations, facilitating the commute to work and events in [[Downtown Tulsa|Downtown]] or Midtown. Buses stop at specific stops such as [[Tulsa Community College]], [[Oklahoma State University-Tulsa]], [[CityPlex Towers]], Cox Communications, the various [[medical facilities in Tulsa]], and many shopping destinations, hotels, and schools. The bus schedules are periodically changed; votes are taken by Tulsa Transit to help decide the particulars of certain routes.<ref>[http://tulsatransit.org/2013/06/route-117-and-118-proposed-changes/ Route 117 and 118 Proposed Changes] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130625084140/http://tulsatransit.org/2013/06/route-117-and-118-proposed-changes/ |date=June 25, 2013 }}. Tulsa Transit (June 3, 2013). Retrieved on August 17, 2013.</ref>  Tulsa debuted its first [[bus rapid transit]] line, Aero on Peoria Avenue, in November 2019.<ref>{{cite news |last=Canfield |first=Kevin |date=November 17, 2019 |title=Tulsa's Bus Rapid Transit service along Peoria Avenue begins Sunday |url=https://www.tulsaworld.com/news/local/government-and-politics/tulsa-s-bus-rapid-transit-service-along-peoria-avenue-begins/article_4894ffea-15c6-5904-9c86-bdf7569ff770.html |work=Tulsa World |access-date=April 14, 2020}}</ref> The service has more frequent buses, upgraded stations, and faster travel times.<ref>{{cite news |last=Canfield |first=Kevin |date=January 16, 2019 |title=City unveils Bus Rapid Transit stop that 'will open the entire city' from downtown, official says |newspaper=Tulsa World |url=https://www.tulsaworld.com/news/local/city-unveils-bus-rapid-transit-stop-that-will-open-the/article_d7cddbd0-0396-59f4-9400-f9cd89c48235.html |access-date=January 16, 2019}}</ref>

[[Intercity bus service]] is provided by both [[Greyhound Lines]] and [[Jefferson Lines]].  The station for both is at 317 S. Detroit, five blocks from Tulsa Transit's Downtown bus terminal.  As to private chartered bus companies, Red Carpet Charters<ref>{{cite web | url= http://www.redcarpetcharters.com | title= Red Carpet Charters website | publisher=Red Carpet Charters | access-date=January 9, 2019}}</ref> a/k/a Red Carpet Trailways of Tulsa, is an independent member of the [[Trailways Transportation System|Trailways Charter Bus Network]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.trailways.com/company-archive/ | title=Our Charter Bus Network | publisher=www.Trailways.com | access-date=January 9, 2019 | archive-date=January 10, 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190110074024/https://www.trailways.com/company-archive/ | url-status=dead }}</ref>

====Airports====
[[File:Embraer ERJ 145 (American Eagle) at TUL.jpg|thumb|right|An American Eagle aircraft in new livery at Tulsa International Airport]][[Tulsa International Airport]], which has service on thirteen commercial airlines (nine passenger and four cargo ones), serves more than three million travelers annually, with almost 80 departures every day.<ref name="Tulsa International Airport" /> In 2007, the airport completed most of an expansion project, which included larger terminal sizes and the addition of restaurants and shops. In 2011, the airport opened the newly renovated Concourse B, complete with skylights, open gate holds, an average of 76 ways to charge a device per gate, and much more. Concourse A is under renovation.<ref name="Tulsa International Airport">{{cite web| year=2007| url=http://www2.johnsoncontrols.com/cg-cases/CSST-A06-003.pdf| title=Case Study:Tulsa International Airport| publisher=Johnson Controls| access-date=July 18, 2007| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070808015723/http://www2.johnsoncontrols.com/cg-cases/CSST-A06-003.pdf| archive-date=August 8, 2007| df=mdy-all}}</ref> [[Richard Lloyd Jones Jr. Airport|Richard L. Jones Jr. Airport]], a/k/a Jones-Riverside Airport, a [[general aviation]] airport in West Tulsa, saw 335,826 takeoffs and landings in 2008, making it the busiest airport in Oklahoma and the fifth-busiest general aviation airport in the nation.<ref name="Riverside Jones Airport">{{cite web|url=http://www.tulsaairports.com/index.cfm?id=11 |title=Riverside Jones Airport |publisher=Tulsa Airport Authority |access-date=October 7, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110822190220/http://www.tulsaairports.com/index.cfm?id=11 |archive-date=August 22, 2011  }}</ref> Its operations contribute over {{Nowrap|$3.2 million}} to the economy annually.<ref name="Riverside Jones Airport" />  The Tulsa Airports Improvement Trust also manages the [[Okmulgee Regional Airport]] in [[Okmulgee, Oklahoma]], further to the south of Tulsa.<ref>Casey Smith, "Tulsa Airport board approves operation deal with Okmulgee Regional Airport," Tulsa World, May 15, 2015.</ref><ref>Larry Levy, "Contract awarded for airport control tower," Tulsa Business & Legal News, May 18, 2016.</ref>

====Railways====
[[Rail freight transport|Freight railways]] bisect the city in every direction; the state's chief freight rail transporter is [[BNSF]], operator of the Cherokee Rail Yard in Tulsa, which facility includes a freight terminal, diesel shop and hump yard for railcar sorting.<ref>{{cite news|url= https://www.tulsaworld.com/business/transportation/here-for-long-haul-bnsf-railway-investments-mirror-footprint-in/article_2f5f134e-d9da-5598-b3a6-8a7c77580e60.html | title= Here for the long haul: BNSF Railway investments mirror footprint in Oklahoma | newspaper=Tulsa World| access-date=December 4, 2018}}</ref>  Other Class I transporters are [[Union Pacific Railroad]], as well as the [[CPKC]] (formerly the [[Kansas City Southern Railway]]) via a short-line switch on the [[South Kansas and Oklahoma Railroad]].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.tulsaport.com/shipping/ | title=Shipping | publisher=Tulsa Port of Catoosa | access-date=December 4, 2018 | archive-date=December 5, 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181205060734/http://www.tulsaport.com/shipping/ | url-status=dead }}</ref>

[[Tulsa Union Depot]] served [[Frisco Railway|Frisco]], [[M-K-T]] and [[Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway|Santa Fe]] passenger trains until the 1960s. The Santa Fe continued service through use of its own station until 1971.<ref>{{cite web | url=  http://roottulsa.com/stories/3079| title= Santa Fe Depot| publisher=Tulsa Foundation for Architecture| access-date=January 25, 2019}}</ref>  There are no mass transit rail lines in Tulsa, but the prospect of passenger rail lines from [[Downtown Tulsa]] to the suburb of [[Broken Arrow, Oklahoma|Broken Arrow]] has been studied.<ref>{{cite news | date=May 1, 2007 | url=http://tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?articleID=070501_1_A2_Commu05642 | first=Brian | last=Barber | title=Tulsa Commuters: Rail, Buss Mass Transit Studied: Take the BA train | newspaper=The [[Tulsa World]] | access-date=May 9, 2007 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://archive.today/20070811123505/http://tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?articleID=070501_1_A2_Commu05642 | archive-date=August 11, 2007 | df=mdy-all }}</ref>

Long-distance passenger rail transportation today serves Tulsa only through [[Greyhound Lines|Greyhound bus lines]], which provide bus connections to nearby cities with [[Amtrak]] stations.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.cwrr.com/Amtrak/mw_thrwy.html| title=Amtrak's Thruway Bus Service | publisher=Ribbon Rail Productions| access-date=May 25, 2008}}</ref>  A private proposal to re-establish passenger service between Oklahoma City and Tulsa via a train called the ‘’[[Eastern Flyer]]’’ fell through in 2019.<ref name="Falls Through">{{cite web | url= https://www.tulsaworld.com/news/state-and-regional/okc-to-tulsa-passenger-rail-service-falls-through/article_bc5d3916-a8f2-5103-b780-adf865127146.html | title= OKC-to-Tulsa passenger rail service falls through | date= August 6, 2019 | publisher=Randy Ellis, Tulsa World, August 6, 2019 | access-date=August 6, 2019}}</ref>  However, in early 2024, the Federal Railroad Administration released an interim report on its ongoing Amtrak Daily Long-Distance Service Study regarding fifteen new or previously discontinued rail routes under consideration for federal funding, which included a proposed route from Oklahoma City to Tulsa, and on from Tulsa to St. Louis in one direction and Kansas City in another.<ref name=Study>{{cite web|url= https://www.trains.com/trn/news-reviews/news-wire/fra-releases-long-distance-study-interim-report-invites-comments/ |title= FRA releases long-distance study interim report, invites comments|publisher= Trains.com, February 21, 2024|accessdate=March 13, 2024}}</ref>

Tulsa has two static displays of antique steam railroad [[locomotives]] for free public viewing: the 1917 wood-burning [[Dierks Forests|Dierks Forest]] 207, a [[Baldwin Locomotive Works|Baldwin]] [[2-6-2]] Prairie-type located at the [[Tulsa State Fair]]grounds;<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.krmg.com/photo/news/local/steam-locomotive-tulsa-fairgrounds/pDSKg/| title=Steam Locomotive on the Tulsa Fairgrounds| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150707103216/http://www.krmg.com/photo/news/local/steam-locomotive-tulsa-fairgrounds/pDSKg/| archive-date=July 7, 2015| df=mdy-all}}</ref> and, the 1942 oil-burning [[St. Louis-San Francisco Railway|Frisco]] [[Meteor (train)|Meteor]] [[St. Louis–San Francisco 4500|4500]], a [[Baldwin Locomotive Works|Baldwin]] [[4-8-4]] Northern-type at the [[Route 66 Historical Village]] at 3770 Southwest Blvd.<ref>{{cite web | url= https://www.travelok.com/listings/view.profile/id.19375 | title= Route 66 Historical Village | publisher= TravelOK.com | access-date= January 16, 2019 | archive-date= September 15, 2020 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20200915042206/https://www.travelok.com/listings/view.profile/id.19375 | url-status= dead }}</ref>

====Port of Catoosa====
{{Main|Tulsa Port of Catoosa}}
[[File:Port of Catoosa 2007.jpg|thumb|The Tulsa Port of Catoosa]]  At the head of the [[McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System]], the [[Tulsa Port of Catoosa]] is an inland port in the United States and connects [[barge]] traffic from Tulsa to the [[Mississippi River]] via the [[Verdigris River]] and the [[Arkansas River]]. The facility is one of the largest riverports in the United States<ref name="Tulsa Port of Catoosa">{{cite web| url=http://www.tulsaport.com/profile.html| title=Port of Catoosa Profile| publisher=[[Tulsa Port of Catoosa]]| access-date=April 22, 2006| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060303181013/http://www.tulsaport.com/profile.html| archive-date=March 3, 2006| df=mdy-all}}</ref> and contributes to one of the busiest waterways in the world via its course to the [[Gulf of Mexico]].<ref name="Tulsa Port News">{{cite web|url=http://www.tulsaport.com/news_and_events.html |title=What's new at the port? |publisher=Tulsa Port Authority |access-date=July 30, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070714184501/http://www.tulsaport.com/news_and_events.html |archive-date=July 14, 2007  }}</ref>

===Medical facilities===
{{main|Medical facilities in Tulsa}}
[[File:The Children's Hospital at Saint Francis.jpg|thumb|right|In 2010 Saint Francis completed a new Children's Hospital.]]
The Saint Francis Health System owns several hospitals with a central location at Saint Francis Hospital in the southern part of the city. The facility contains 700 doctors and 918 beds,<ref>{{cite web | year=2006 | url=http://www.sfh-tulsa.com/ | title=Saint Francis Hospital | publisher=Saint Francis Health System| access-date=May 7, 2006}}</ref> and with more than 7,000 employees, the network is the second-largest healthcare employer in the state.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.healthexecutive.com/spotlights/apr_2006/sl_stFrancis.asp | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928093541/http://www.healthexecutive.com/spotlights/apr_2006/sl_stFrancis.asp | archive-date=September 28, 2007 | title=Saint Francis Health System | publisher=Health Executive| access-date=May 7, 2007}}</ref> The health system also operates a heart hospital, which was named by [[General Electric]] in 2004 one of the most advanced heart hospitals in the nation.<ref>{{cite news | date=January 13, 2007 | url=http://salesandmarketingnetwork.com/news_release.php?ID=2009486| title=GE Healthcare Announces Preview of Latest Advanced All-Digital Heart Hospital| publisher=The Healthcare Sales and Marketing Network | access-date=May 7, 2007}}</ref> St. John Medical Center, located in an 11-story midtown center, employs nearly 700 doctors.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.sjmc.org/section.asp?id=mp35 | title=About St. John| publisher=Saint John Healthcare System | access-date=May 7, 2007|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070716011407/http://www.sjmc.org/section.asp?id=mp35 |archive-date = July 16, 2007|url-status=dead}}</ref> Other networks, such as Hillcrest Health System, operate a number of facilities of various sizes.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.cancercenter.com/southwestern-hospital/about-southwestern.cfm| title=Southwestern Regional Medical Center| publisher=Cancer Treatment Centers of America| access-date=May 7, 2007| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070507110339/http://www.cancercenter.com/southwestern-hospital/about-southwestern.cfm| archive-date=May 7, 2007| url-status=dead| df=mdy-all}}</ref> Beginning in 2007, the city elected to renew a five-year contract with [[Emergency Medical Services Authority|EMSA]] for ambulance service after a period spent contemplating a switch to the [[Tulsa Fire Department]] for the provision of such services.<ref>{{cite news | date=January 12, 2007 | url=http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?articleID=070112_Ne_A1_Tulsa7813| first=P.J | last=Lassek | title=Tulsa mayor chooses to stick with EMSA| newspaper=[[Tulsa World]] | access-date=May 7, 2007}}</ref>