Posted on 12/16/2020 11:27:37 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Work on the west leg of the Gilcrease Expressway continues with officials saying Monday that completion is still expected in about 18 months.
Joe Echelle, Oklahoma Turnpike Authority assistant executive director of maintenance, engineering and construction, told stakeholders during a virtual meeting that the contractor was slightly ahead of schedule with concrete pouring for the new roadway scheduled to begin in February.
As the concrete is poured, first between 41st and 51st Streets, the highway “won’t just look like a dirt road at this point,” Echelle said.
State officials in July 2019 awarded a $259.3 million construction contract for the west leg of the Gilcrease Expressway.
The project consists of five miles of new, four-lane toll road beginning where the existing Gilcrease Expressway connects to Interstate 44 just south of West 51st Street and ends just north of U.S. 412 at Edison Street.
The road will include two bridges, one for each direction of traffic, over the Arkansas River.
Rich Brierre, executive director of the Indian Nations Council of Governments, said “seeing those spans reaching across the river is a huge accomplishment.”
Echelle said the contractor will be receiving bridge beams weekly for the next six months as the work continues to complete water and sewer line relocations for the project.
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PING!
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will there even be a need for it after all jobs are lost due to lock downs over an overblown pandemic that wasn’t and still isn’t?
Well, it won’t be used for travel to movies, restaurants, gyms, concerts, sporting events or fairs.
It shall then be renamed the Tulsa Government Workers and Corporate Scum Expressway.
A road to nowhere.
$50,000,000 a mile. Staggering.
Just another Oklahoma road to fall apart and a turnpike that will collect revenue forever as they let the alternative roads disintegrate.
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