Tulsa World
By World's Editorial Writers
Published: 4/18/20112:24 AM
Last Modified: 4/18/20113:52 AM
Ground was broken Friday on the Interstate-244 bridge replacement, a project one highway advocacy group calls "monumental."
No doubt it is a huge deal - $64 million and two years in the making - replacing 44-year-old eastbound and westbound bridges that are too small to accommodate the 68,000 vehicles that traverse them every day.
It is gratifying that the project is going to be undertaken despite the new uncertainty of federal highway funding and recent deep cuts in state funding to the Oklahoma Department of Transportation.
Work on the bridge replacement is due in large part to a $50 million federal stimulus grant, the ninth-largest such award in the nation... FULL ARTICLE
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Mon, April 18, 2011
by John Cox