Are the New I-35 Red River Bridges Too Low?

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May 5, 2025
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Z94 By Kelso May 5, 2025

April 2025 was the wettest month on record for a ton of Oklahoma towns. Tulsa, OKC, Lawton, and Okemah, just to name the biggest shattered records for the month. It has led to some familiar problems, mainly flooding.

As the world has been able to survey the damages through social media, it has more than a few people wondering if the state has already wasted $460 million on the new I-35 bridges across the Red River.

Traffic has been a persistent problem across that particular interstate bridge for a long time, so the state started a big project to ease congestion with more lanes and new bridges last fall.

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