Tulsa World
By Curtis Killman
April 3, 2022 Gypsy Schools Superintendent Rachel Collins isn’t looking forward to the day county officials finally close a bridge in her district that crosses the Deep Fork River. Creek County officials told her about two years ago that the bridge, built in 1925, was too unstable for a heavy school bus to cross. Collins said she has been forced to use a smaller, lighter vehicle to safely ferry students across the bridge, located on South 369th West Avenue in south-central Creek County. “So right now we have been able to work out some plans with the parents for alternate transportation, but as far as taking a big yellow school bus across the bridge, it is not a viable option, it is just too dangerous,” Collins said. The county-maintained bridge is one of about 80 in Creek County and nearly 2,300 statewide that are rated structurally deficient or in poor condition, according to a Tulsa World analysis of 2021 National Bridge Inventory data.
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