By D. Ray Tuttle
The Journal Record
Posted: 09:54 PM Friday, January 7, 2011
TULSA – Tulsa motorists may have turned the page on the calendar, but it remains the year of the orange barrel.
Four bridge rehabilitation projects, totaling $7 million, started last week on structurally deficient bridges around downtown Tulsa, said Kenna Mitchell, spokeswoman for the Oklahoma Department of Transportation in Tulsa.
Manhattan Road and Bridge Co., which is part of the Manhattan Construction Group, is the contractor for all four projects.
None of the work is tied to the $75 million reconstruction of what is referred to as the Inner Dispersal Loop (IDL) downtown, which is Tulsa’s largest stimulus-funded project and is scheduled to be completed sometime during the first half of the year.
The four bridges are part of ODOT’s ongoing efforts to rehabilitate structurally deficient bridges statewide, Mitchell said.
The work will impact thousands as the multilane highway, designed on maps as State Highway 51 and U.S. Highway 64 but commonly referred to as the Broken Arrow Expressway, handles 87,000 vehicles a day along that section of road, Mitchell said... FULL ARTICLE
Posted on
Fri, January 7, 2011
by John Cox