Kevin Canfield

Tulsa World Reporter

Mike Simons

Tulsa World Photojournalist

How did the city come to decide placing boulders on the Fourth Street sidewalk adjacent to the downtown bus station was a good idea? Mayor Monroe Nichols explained the decision this way: “When we were working to address some of the public safety-related challenges, after we had figured out that BeHeard was going to be a partner with us in that, the boulders were a staff recommendation that I felt really good about,” Nichols said.

Many people claim the city had put the large boulders where they did to drive homeless people away from the bus station.

Where did the boulder idea come from? The answer dates back to last year, when, according to a city spokesperson, the urban design team in the Department of City

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