Tulsa World
By GAVIN OFF World Data Editor
Published: 3/9/2011 3:44 AM
Last Modified: 3/9/2011 4:14 AM
Work on a new 2.2-mile stretch of the Gilcrease Expressway will begin in the coming months, despite the uncertainty surrounding plans to finish the roughly 12-mile extension.
Crews with Becco Contractors Inc. will begin an eight-month project this summer to build a new two-lane road between the L.L. Tisdale Parkway and 41st West Avenue. City officials hope to later widen the road to four lanes.
Becco Contractors was awarded the $7.78 million contract during a meeting of the Oklahoma Department of Transportation commissioners Monday. The federal government provided 80 percent of the funds with a 20 percent local match.
But plans to extend the road from 41st West Avenue southwest to near Interstate 44 remain unclear. Because of limited funding, the city is currently building the road piece by piece, said Paul Zachary, Tulsa's deputy director of Public Works for the Engineering Services Division.
The current expressway stretches from the Tisdale Parkway to U.S. 75 and includes a portion of Oklahoma 11 where it ends at Interstate 244... FULL ARTICLE
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