The Oklahoma Transportation Department is identifying projects that can start immediately if the president's $50 billion stimulus program wins approval.
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BY MICHAEL MCNUTT Oklahoman
Published: September 8, 2010
Oklahoma will be ready with projects if President Barack Obama gets Congress to pass a $50 billion plan to rebuild roads, state Transportation Department Director Gary Ridley said Tuesday.
"We will be prepared to act," Ridley told members of the Oklahoma Transportation Commission.
Ridley held a meeting later in the day with field division engineers and designers to go over projects in the state's eight-year construction work plan, which the commission approved last month, to make sure the state can act quickly "if additional funds were made available to Oklahoma."
"If you get additional money then you're ready to go," he said. "If you don't, there's no harm because you're designing projects you intend to do anyhow." FULL ARTICLE
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Wed, September 8, 2010
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