Oklahoma moves to No. 7 in best highway bridge conditions

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TULSA, Okla. — Oklahoma continues continues to amended its ranking successful the prime of its bridges, moving from 9^th to 7^th successful caller information released this week.

That betterment doesn’t adjacent comparison to astir 20 years agone erstwhile the authorities ranked 49th.

The authorities wants to support driver's information astatine the forefront. Bobby Stem, enforcement manager of the Oklahoma Association of General Contractors said a tragic mishap backmost successful 2004 prompted the authorities to statesman paying much attraction to its bridges.

“That truly was sparked astir 2 decades ago, erstwhile a chunk of factual fell disconnected the bridge, and went done a person’s windshield, and killed them,” Stem said.

“The past happening we request are unsafe bridges,” helium said.

Over the past 15 years, the authorities has invested implicit six cardinal dollars making important improvements to bridges crossed Oklahoma, and it's travel a agelong way.

Now, it ranks 7th for having immoderate of the champion bridges successful the country. Among the improvements, the IDL task and the bid of bridges wrapping astir Downtown Tulsa.

“Those were incredibly dangerous, astatine 1 constituent successful time, and those person been rehabbed, if not replaced and those are safer present arsenic well,” Stem said.

Another task they're presently moving connected is astatine 1-44 and Hwy 75.

Stem said they are moving to regenerate the span and amended the postulation travel astatine that interchange to marque it safer for drivers.

“We person truthful overmuch much postulation today, you person to beryllium a capable to determination that postulation amended successful bid to debar collisions,” Stem said.

Now that the authorities has made bridges safer, Stem said they volition absorption connected improving roadworthy conditions and expanding successful agrarian areas of the state.

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