August 13, 2010
By Andrew Knittle
The Norman Transcript
NORMAN — If you’ve driven through Norman in recent months, you’ve no doubt had plenty of opportunities to behold the “bridge to nowhere” that grandly straddles Interstate 35 at Rock Creek Road.
With its ornate design, complete with intricately detailed support columns and parade of carved quarter horses galloping across the facade, it’s hard to miss.
Public Works Director Shawn O’Leary has heard the “bridge to nowhere” comments in recent months, though he’s not surprised by them.
“Of course, we don’t like to hear things like that, but I see the humor in it,” O’Leary said. “We knew, with the other projects ODOT (the Oklahoma Department of Transportation) was doing at the time, that it might end up sitting like it has been for a few months, maybe even a year.”
O’Leary said the decision to have the bridge built first, before streets could connect to it, saved the city “about a million dollars,” because of the way ODOT was constructing the bridge... FULL ARTICLE
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