Tulsa World
By Justin Ayer
August 2, 2021
A day after Wagoner Mayor Albert (AJ) Jones was sworn into office on April, 21, 2015 — he drove to Oklahoma City to have a meeting with Oklahoma Department of Transportation engineers. He had one goal in mind: get the city of Wagoner on ODOT’s eight-year, construction work plan. In order to be on the eight-year work plan, a municipality must demonstrate a critical need for transportation improvement projects on interstate, U.S. and state highways and bridges. Oklahoma 51, or better known as Cherokee Street, runs through downtown Wagoner, and it could use a little T.L.C. After nearly six years of planning, applications, appraisals and the occasional setback, the city of Wagoner finally got the thumbs up for three, ODOT projects to be bid together.
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