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15 May 2005Spanned outNewsOK.com has a map of substandard bridges in the state, and there are plenty of them; every county has at least four or more. The one nearest to Surlywood (there are three within a mile or so) is the May Avenue overpass above Northwest Distressway, which dates to 1952 and carries about 5000 vehicles a day, occasionally including mine. The deck has been downgraded to Critical; the superstructure is Poor, while the substructure holds on to Fair. Redoing this bridge will cost $4.89 million. It doesn't take a lot of these to get into some serious money. Unfortunately, we do have a lot of these — nearly 7500, in fact — and ODOT's Gary Ridley says the tab for fixing all of them will run $3 billion or so. Posted at 8:47 AM to SoonerlandThere are some bridges near Ardmore that are just downright frightening--like Frank Lloyd Wright designed them while badly hungover in 1915, and no one has worked on them since. Posted by: aldahlia at 3:30 PM on 17 May 2005Or if they did, they were badly hung over at the time. We have some of those up here in the central part of the state too. |