By News Staff July 9, 2024
The state Transportation Department intends to spend close to $900 million in the next five years on still more improvements to rural bridges and county roads throughout the state, including southwest Oklahoma.
The Oklahoma Transportation Commission recently approved an annual update to the County Improvements for Roads and Bridges Plan that calls for $863 million in expenditures in Fiscal Years 2025 through 2029.
Designed by the state Legislature to address deficient county infrastructure, the latest plan is set to replace or rehabilitate 176 county bridges – of which 79 are structurally deficient or functionally obsolete – and to improve 408 miles of roadway in the next five years.
“These projects represent a significant investment in transportation infrastructure and will undoubtedly have a positive safety and economic impact to our state,” said ODOT Executive Director Tim Gatz.
Since the plan’s inception in 2006, CIRB funding has made significant strides in helping counties to improve the condition and safety of the county roads for all Oklahomans, Gatz said.
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