Oklahoma Submits Seven Infrastructure Projects to Trump for Consideration
Four highway projects are among the seven total infrastructure priorities that Oklahoma submitted to the National Governors Association as part of a 428-item list that the NGA is asking the Trump administration to consider.
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Cody Boyd, a spokesman for Oklahoma’s Department of Transportation, said the state’s list includes:
I-40 Reconstruction — Increase the capacity of I-40, a freight corridor, heading east from I-35 in Oklahoma City to Shawnee. Cost: $300 million.
U.S. 75 — Expand the highway south from I-244 in Tulsa to Glenpool. Cost: $300 million.
I-44 Reconstruction — Improve the oldest piece of original interstate in Oklahoma as it heads west of the Arkansas River to west of I-244. Cost: $300 million.
I-44/I-235 Interchange— Redo this interchange in Oklahoma City that handles nearly 200,000 vehicles daily. Cost: $150 million.
The remaining three projects include: railroad crossing improvements around the state at a cost of $50 million; rehabilitating the lock-and-dam infrastructure of the McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River navigation system and dredging the river at a cost of $135 million; and building a new control tower at Tulsa’s airport at a cost of $43 million.
