The Oklahoma Department of Transportation has been fixing bad Oklahoma bridges. As of 2009 — the latest year of ODOT data available — fewer than 800 bridges out of 6,700 on the state highway system needed significant repairs or replacement.
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BY GAVIN OFF - Tulsa World
Published: February 20, 2011
Within seven years, the Oklahoma Department of Transportation has slashed the number of deficient highway bridges in the state by about 30 percent, data show.
As of 2009 — the latest year of ODOT data available — fewer than 800 bridges out of 6,700 on the state highway system needed significant repairs or replacement.
“We are very pleased with the progress we’ve been able to make in the past five or six years, but … we’re not done,” said Gary Evans, deputy director and chief engineer. “We need to stay the course.”
Although the number of bad bridges has declined steadily, every year bridges previously declared “non-deficient” turn into problem structures.
From 2008 to 2009, for instance, 69 span bridges went from nondeficient to structurally deficient, a Tulsa World data review showed. ODOT projects improved 66 bridges during that same time... FULL ARTICLE
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Sun, February 20, 2011
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