Tulsa World
By World's Editorial Writers
Published: 10/5/20112:25 AM
Last Modified: 10/5/20113:04 AM
Gov. Mary Fallin on Monday unveiled an ambitious plan to address the more than 700 structurally deficient bridges in the state by 2019, hoping to bring the number close to zero.
And the plan to repair or replace all those bridges will be done without raising any new taxes, tolls or fees, the governor said.
Oklahoma for many years has had among the highest numbers of problem bridges in the nation. The Oklahoma Department of Transportation has made considerable progress in recent years, reducing the backlog of structurally deficient bridges by about 30 percent. But the agency still has a long way to go to fix them all.
Fallin's plan, called Governor Fallin's Bridge Improvement and Turnpike Modernization Plan, calls for adding 126 more deficient bridges to ODOT's current eight-year plan. ODOT officials say funding is available to add those 126 bridges... FULL ARTICLE
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Wed, October 5, 2011
by John Cox