Tulsa World
BY GAVIN OFF
Published: March 9, 2011
Oklahoma Department of Transportation commissioners awarded a bid Monday to replace one of the highway system’s worst bridges with what will likely be one of the state’s most extraordinary ones.
ODOT commissioners approved a project to replace Interstate 244’s westbound Arkansas River bridge with a double-decker span that will carry vehicular, rail and pedestrian traffic.
Contractors will build the rail lines, which will run on the bridge’s lower level, to accommodate high-speed rail, in case such traffic is ever needed into or out of Tulsa.
The project’s construction cost totals $64 million, making it the second-largest single project the department has ever awarded... FULL ARTICLE
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Wed, March 9, 2011
by John Cox