News on 6 By: Ashlyn Brothers
August 4, 2022, 10:36 pm
TULSA, Okla. - Oklahoma moves to number five in the nation for the best highway bridge conditions.
Federal inspectors looked at the number of structurally deficient bridges across the nation.
At one point we ranked second worst in the nation, before state lawmakers and ODOT made improvements a big priority.
Secretary of Transportation Tim Gatz said Oklahoma went from having completely unmanageable infrastructure to manageable bridge conditions after investing billions of dollars over the last several years, but they're far from finished.
"We had so much of a backlog of deferred maintenance on those bridges and we let them go for so long without any attention. From 1987 until that time period 2004-2005 the state resources going to transportation were fundamentally flat,” said Tim Gatz, Oklahoma Secretary of Transportation.
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