The Oklahoma Transportation Commission has approved a work plan that calls for repairing or replacing nearly 400 county bridges and improving more than 800 miles of county roads over the next five years.
About $926 million in federal, state, local and tribal funds will go toward the County Improvement for Roads and Bridges plan that was approved on Monday. The plan is administered by the state Department of Transportation.
Transportation officials say that the bridges to be rehabbed or replaced include nearly 300 bridges deemed structurally deficient or functionally obsolete. They say more than 40 of the bridges to be built will use bridge beams repurposed from an old interstate expressway.