Oklahoma, rub your two legislative and administrative brain cells together and look East.
Arkansas ranked in the top five in in a 27 state study on on time and on budget highway construction projects. Oklahoma ranked nearly dead last.
Oklahoma taxes everything except corporations. Even groceries and other essentials for daily living. Arkansas does not. We save nearly 10% on groceries by making a 30 mile drive and have dinner every two weeks leaving and entering the state wide speed bump that is Oklahoma roads on our trip.
Oklahoma, where does the money go? It is widely dispersed in trinkets that amount to close to nothing. The only response I ever get from questions to our politicians is, “we need more money”. Not one thin dime until they account for what has already been taken.
We Texas drivers just love the Indian Nations Turnpike. As a coincidence, my wife is driving on it today up to Kansas City for a mission trip with our church.
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all those okie county commissioners gotta get there cut
***Oklahoma ranked nearly dead last.***
I watched the slow rebuilding of the dangerous Hwy 33 between Tulsa and Siloam Springs AR.
1971 they pushed a double land road to Catoosa Then in another five years to Inola. Then in another five years to Chouteau. And that was it. 15 years total.
The rest of the dangerous road was still two lane.
Then someone mentioned making the rest a turnpike which will start bringing in MONEY instantly. In 5 years it was in and running.
I noticed the same with the CIMARRON TURNPIKE. In 1970, two lane road in that area. 1971 new Turnpike!
Then there is the non-existent rest areas. Where a rest area-gas station gift shop used to be on the Cherokee Turnpike is...nothing. They even bulldozed the area clean.
That has been apparent to me every time I have taken highway 69 from Big Cabin to Durant. That road has some smooth stretches but also some terrible areas. A possible reason for the lack of highway improvements may be that the eastern half of the state has a lot of Native American reservation land which probably does not pay property taxes.