August 12, 2010
James Coburn
The Edmond Sun
EDMOND — The Oklahoma Department of Transportation released its eight-year Construction Work Plan by the Oklahoma Transportation Commission this week.
An action necessary for the department to function in the long term, more than $4.3 billion in bridge and highway improvements are planned by the end of 2019, said Terri Angier, ODOT spokeswoman.
This eight-year plan is updated each year because a blueprint is needed for rights-of-way and designing projects.
“Our projects are very much long-term plans within environmental clearance of federal laws and federal funding, which is a key point of this,” Angier said. “We have to plan things way in advance.”
In response to ODOT’s eight-year Construction Work Plan, Supporters of State Question 744 issued a press release critical of the $4.3 billion in construction plans “while schools across Oklahoma face crippling budget cuts,” Supporters of State Question 744 stated... FULL ARTICLE
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Thu, August 12, 2010
by Crystal Drwenski