Tulsa World
By GAVIN OFF World Data Editor
Published: 10/27/20102:19 AM
Last Modified: 10/27/20103:56 AM
On an Interstate 244 overpass near ONEOK Field, local, state and federal officials praised the $75 million stimulus project that's slowly transforming the road beneath them.
Victor Mendez, administrator of the Federal Highway Administration, joined Tulsa officials and members of the Oklahoma Department of Transportation on Tuesday to speak about the project's progress.
The day before, Mendez toured the Inner Dispersal Loop and other local roads and bridges in need of repair, such as the Interstate 244 bridge over the Arkansas River.
"I've never seen a recovery project that I didn't like," Mendez said. "I'm very glad that the recovery act helped."
The IDL project, funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, will repave some 40 bridges and three miles of highway, stretching west from I-244's bridge over U.S. 75 northeast of downtown to the Arkansas River. The road carries about 65,000 vehicles a day, according to an ODOT report.
It's the largest single project ever awarded by ODOT and more than 80 percent complete, said Randle White, ODOT engineer for the Tulsa area. White said the project should meet another milestone this week when IDL's west leg opens, weather permitting... FULL ARTICLE
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