Those highways and bridges where oil and gas trucks and big rigs hauling wind farm blades travel in Oklahoma are the target of an 8-year Construction Work Plan approved Monday by the Oklahoma Transportation Commission.
The DOT said major improvements have already been made through the Eight-year Construction Work Plan but “much work remains to address the backlog of transportation needs and the demands of a growing population and traffic.”
The program includes nearly $6.4 billion in federal and state funding for more than 1,600 highway and bridge projects statewide for Federal Fiscal years 2017-2024.
Another $466 million is part of the Asset Preservation Plan for State fiscal years 2017-2020 which includes preventative maintenance and accessibility projects. The top priority in the plan is ODOT’s commitment to address all known structurally deficient highway bridges. In 2004, 1,168 of Oklahoma’s 6,800 highway bridges were rated as structurally deficient. Today, the 321 remaining structurally deficient bridges are programmed in the plan for replacement or major rehabilitation by the end of the decade.