Historic Medicine Park bridge to be replaced
- T.R.U.S.T.
- Dec 9, 2024
- 1 min read
By Mike W. Ray December 9, 2024
Plans are being developed for replacement of the historic one-lane bridge spanning Medicine Creek near Bath Lake in Medicine Park. The bridge – which was built in 1906, a year before statehood – has a wooden deck and its load-bearing capacity is limited to 5 tons.
The state Transportation Commission recently approved a $708,423 contract with Poe & Associates of Oklahoma City to prepare preliminary engineering and construction plans for the project.
The new structure will be two lanes wide and “roughly the same length” as it is now “because there is not much wiggle room at that location,” Kalie Eldridge, a public information officer with the Oklahoma Department of Transportation, told Southwest Ledger.
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