Before they worry about that bridge, they need to get started on the section of highway running from Texarkana to Ft. Smith. And they need to get moving on the section running from Bentonville up to the border with Missouri as well. Maybe once they actually have something for that bridge to connect, then they can think about building the bridge.
It's why we have to make political corruption too expensive to consider. Something like an automatic, non-pardonable torturing to death, including his family. Since democrats think public theft is like tipping a waiter for service, it would be a hard law to pass.
It would, however, either give us much more honest leadership, or more clever thieves...
“$380 million. “
BS. No interstate bridge over a river can be built for that pittance. Not even in the South.
So, which is more expensive?
The current circuitous connection route or the proposed toll?
Funny.
The last time I went south from I-40 on what is now called I-49 I crossed the river on a bridge into Ft. Smith on a limited access highway. This is just another political boondoggle.
***One possible solution for the funding shortage is to make the 13.7-mile stretch a toll road***
GO FOR IT! Learn what happened in Oklahoma on old Hiway 33 between Tulsa and Siloam Springs Arkansas, 80 miles.
It took fifteen years, a little at a time to get a double lane road from Tulsa to Chouteau Oklahoma. That left a 40 mile stretch of dangerous 2 lane Hwy 33 from there to Siloam Springs.
Then it was proposed as a toll road. Within five years it was in and open.
I saw the same thing with the toll road between Sand Springs and Enid, and Stillwater. One year it wasn’t, suddenly it was there.
Oklahoma loves toll roads. Wish they had more rest areas but they have closed and bulldozed them. Too many faggots infest them.
Good thing it isn’t to be built in Oklahoma or it would never get done. Arkansas ranks about third in a 27 state survey in state highway project on time and on budget work believe it or not. Oklahoma is about dead last. Oklahoma can turn any year-long project into at least 5. I’ve seen trees sprout and grow on Oklahoma road projects.
I thought for a foolish moment they were talking about fixing the Garrison Street bridge and the stretch of US 64 from there to I-40. The interchange at I-40 has been the same mess of topsy turvy broken concrete for decades. Disgusting. It isn’t rocket science to fix a little pavement.
Oklahoma has closed rest areas for ages since they can’t seem to control the faggots and prostitutes. Ought to round them all up, shoot them and bury them on the roadside with backhoes.
Oklahoma just declared a project to fix several hundred bridges and 800 miles of road. It will all fall apart before they get 1/4 of it finished. Of course the next question is what are they going to pay for it with? From all the oil production in the state over the decades the producers get off just about scott free and add to the road destruction.
Oklahoma specializes in corrupt and ignorant. Their only claims to fame are negatives: Most obese list, most opiate deaths list, most divorces list etc. Some great people but a lousy state. Crossing the state line from just about any neighboring state, especially Missouri and Texas, is like entering a hundreds of miles long speed bump.