Tag: Oklahoma Transportation Commission

Roadbuilding

Okla. announces 8-year, nearly $6.5 billion infrastructure construction plan

Oklahoma state and county transportation officials announced that the Oklahoma Transportation Commission (OTC) approved an eight-year, nearly $6.5 billion construction plan (Fiscal Year 2020-2027) involving nearly 1,400 projects, KFOR reports. The plan includes three main points: Replacing structurally deficient highway bridges; Improving 780 miles of two-lane highways that have no shoulder to include shoulders wider […]

October 29, 2019

Roadbuilding

Contracts awarded for major Oklahoma City road projects

Work to complete improvements to Oklahoma City Boulevard in the city’s downtown area and the SH-74 corridor in northwest Oklahoma City will begin in the spring, according to the Oklahoma Department of Transportation. The Oklahoma Transportation Commission has awarded a $27 million contract to Allen Contracting Inc. and Shell Construction Inc. of Oklahoma City to […]

December 26, 2017

Roadbuilding

Okla. commission adopts $926 million road and bridge plan

A plan for $926 million worth of road and bridge projects has been approved by the Oklahoma Transportation Commission through 2022. The plan calls for improving 800 miles of road and replacing or rehabilitating 400 bridges, according to the Oklahoma Department of Transportation. ODOT says 297 of the bridges are rated as structurally deficient. The […]

November 13, 2017

Roadbuilding

Budget cuts force delays to Okla. highway projects

Seven years of continued state funding cuts have led the Oklahoma Transportation Commission to drastically reduce and even remove some projects from the state’s 2018-2025 highway and bridge plan. Forty construction projects totaling more than $204 million were removed from the updated eight-year plan, and about 42 percent of all programmed projects are being delayed […]

October 4, 2017

Roadbuilding

Oklahoma Transportation Commission awards 50 contracts valued at $82 million

The Oklahoma Transportation Commission (OTC) in its February meeting awarded 50 contracts valued at $82 million for improvements to bridges, highways, interstates and roads in 37 counties. The contracts included major Oklahoma Department of Transportation (ODOT) bridge rehabilitation projects in Tulsa and Oklahoma City, as well as highway reconstruction in Wagoner County and 20 resurfacing […]

February 10, 2017

Roadbuilding

Oklahoma Transportation Commission hears ODOT budget needs, approves bridge project

Oklahoma Department of Transportation (ODOT) executive director Mike Patterson told the state’s transportation commission at its meeting last week the agency looks to work with the state’s legislators to “find transportation funding solutions during the upcoming session.” He stressed ODOT hasn’t requested additional funding for several years that was beyond what has been already allocated […]

January 10, 2017

Roadbuilding

Oklahoma DOT continues efforts to reduce number of obsolete bridges

Continuing efforts to reduce the number of obsolete bridges in the state, the Oklahoma Transportation Commission approved the Department of Transportation’s plans to replace an 80-year-old span over a creek in the heart of Guthrie, the Times Record reports. In 2004, there were 1,168 structurally deficient highway bridges in Oklahoma. Now, there are only 321, which are […]

October 17, 2016

Roadbuilding

Commission approves Oklahoma DOT’s $6.4 billion, 8-year Construction Work Plan

The Oklahoma Transportation Commission has approved the Oklahoma Department of Transportation’s (ODOT) Eight-year Construction Work Plan for 2017-2024 with roughly $6.4 billion in funding for more than 1,600 bridge and highway projects. The plan also includes a $466 million Asset Preservation plan covering 2017-2020, with preventative maintenance and accessibility projects. ODOT says the Eight-year Plan […]

October 5, 2016

Roadbuilding

Oklahoma Transportation Commission approves 8-year, $6.5 billion bridge and road construction plan

The Oklahoma Transportation Commission (OTC) has approved the Oklahoma Department of Transportation’s (ODOT) Federal Fiscal Year 2016-2023 Construction Work Plan that would provide roughly $6.5 billion for 1,812 transportation improvement projects. “It’s been a decade since the state made transportation funding a top priority and in that time we have seen great progress in addressing […]

September 10, 2015