By Ryan Piersol
OKC Friday
If the condition of Oklahoma’s roads could be compared to a type of road, they might read this way – used to be gravel, now highway and soon to be expressway.
That was the summary of a report by Oklahoma Department of Transportation Direction Gary Ridley to the Greater Oklahoma City Chamber last week. Ridley highlighted just how far the state’s transportation situation had improved over the past five years, yet laid out an ambitious amount of work that needed to be done in the next eight years.
The director said an increased focus on transportation funding has allowed the state to replace or rehabilitate 530 bridges over the past five years.
“I’d say that’s more than this state has ever done in a five-year period, maybe even in a 10-year period,” he said. “We’ve seen a huge difference in shift, as far as having the state in the huge unmanageable position that it was in.” FULL ARTICLE
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Thu, September 16, 2010
by Crystal Drwenski