Stillwater News Press
Aug 29, 2024
It has gotten much harder in recent years for Oklahoma to keep its word regarding its roads and bridges.
This is due to mostly to inflation and the impacts of inflation, said Bobby Stem, executive director of the Association of Oklahoma General Contractors. Stem talked to the Stillwater Frontier Rotary’s members and guests at their noon speaker’s program lunch event on Thursday at the Best Western off Perkins Road.
Joining him in discussion was Trenton January, District 4 engineer from Oklahoma Department of Transportation. Together they addressed planning impacts to Oklahoma’s roads and bridges from the economy and talked about ODOT’s rolling “8-Year Construction Work Plan.”
Stem called the plan “the most fascinating document in state government” because it is designed to fix roads and bridges from a data-driven perspective, not political agendas, and it is built from empirical data (safety, driving, needs and costs numbers) and revisited annually by the planners and writers.
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