Gary Ridley, director of the Oklahoma Department of Transportation, said Wednesday he is prepared to address concerns by Oklahoma City leaders that a boulevard planned to replace the current alignment of Interstate 40 south of downtown is too wide.
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BY STEVE LACKMEYER
Published: September 4, 2010
The state's top highway official this week promised that a boulevard intended to replace Interstate 40 south of downtown can be narrowed from its current plan of six lanes if that is the wish of Oklahoma City leaders.
Gary Ridley, director of the Oklahoma Department of Transportation, also said the $85 million allocated in the agency's latest eight-year plan should allow for complete construction of the highway and boulevard by 2014.
The boulevard's proposed six-lane width — wider than a section of Northwest Expressway in far northwest Oklahoma City — have concerned city leaders who want to see the area developed as a new mixed-use downtown neighborhood.
"We're not going to build something the city doesn't want,” Ridley said in an interview Wednesday following a presentation at the Skirvin Hilton Hotel... FULL ARTICLE
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