Road and Bridge Work Part of ODOT’s “Eight-Year Plan”

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October 5, 2022

By News Director Jared Atha

Twenty years after the adoption of the Oklahoma Department of Transportation’s first Eight-Year Construction Work Plan, the Oklahoma Transportation Commission approved its newest update earlier this week.

Part of the plan will see work done in Washita County.

The Federal Fiscal Year 2023-2030 Eight-Year Construction Work Plan contains $8.4 billion worth of critically needed transportation improvement projects designed to improve the safety and reliability of Oklahoma’s highway network. For the first time in the plan’s 20 years, each plan year averages more than $1 billion in projects programmed across the state.

Also updated recently was the department’s Asset Preservation Plan for 2023-2026, which includes 330 projects valuing about $502 million worth of maintenance and preservation work to extend the life of the state’s highway infrastructure.

The 2023-2030 plan addresses 340 bridges currently at risk of becoming structurally deficient and targets 659 highway bridges for reconstruction or major rehabilitation. Altogether, the plan contains about 1,745 projects valued at more than $8.4 billion.

Notable projects added or advanced in the 2023-2030 Eight-Year Construction Work Plan include, among others, resurfacing, adding shoulders and bridge rehab on SH-55 between Sentinel and Rocky in Washita County.

Coinciding with the plan’s 20th anniversary, a new, user-friendly website will help Oklahomans more easily find projects that will affect them.

The new website, available on the ODOT homepage at www.odot.org, allows users to easily locate projects and related information of interest to them. Projects can be sorted by ODOT field district, by Construction Work Plan projects, Asset Preservation Plan Projects or by plan year.

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