This has been planned for some time. I love living in Tulsa - except for the roads. Horrible. Takes forever to fix them. Result is usually worse than the problem.
Not OK but years ago (mid ‘70’s) we had to make several trips from CA to OH and highways in NM were always under construction - well, at least according to signs - all the way to Albuquerque...with signs:
Road work next 4.5678265716 miles - no kidding. No matter how much time there was between trips, those signs were always there and I don’t think we ever saw any construction. I always thought it was because no one knew just how to measure off those miles!
Oklahoma has one of the worst on time and on budget records of any highway department in the nation.
The surrounding states spend similar or less money on highways and ALL, every one of them, have a better road quality rating than Oklahoma.
Even compared to Oklahoma Kansas is poor as a bunch of church mice but still have better road quality. Missouri is now spending less than Oklahoma on roads and still have better quality roads.
Crossing a state line into Oklahoma is like entering one long speed bump, more like plowed ground.