Perched over the new Interstate 40 (Crosstown Expressway) near Robinson Avenue on the South side of the downtown Oklahoma City area, the SkyDance Bridge represents a soaring monument and landmark to the vision of Oklahoma City. The bridge is centered in the heart of the Oklahoma City MAP 3 downtown park project, connecting pedestrians to …

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The Illinois River Bridge on State Highway 59 project included north bound and the south bound U.S. 59 bridges over the Illinois River replacements for one narrow and old steel structure bridge built in the early twentieth century. The traffic had reached a point that was above the design capacity of the old bridge in …

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The replacement of the existing Connors Bridge (consisting of multiple timber-decked steel through-trusses) with the County Road NS 469 over the Neosho River, near Fairland, Oklahoma, was accelerated in 2009 as necessitated by heavy flooding in the river basin. A local landmark and popular fishing location, the closure of the bridge was detrimental to rural …

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The Tisdale/Apache Interchange project is located north of downtown Tulsa on the Tisdale Expressway over Apache Street. The bridge project includes two-218 foot-long, 40-foot-wide bridges. These bridges include 2,608 linear feet of type IV precast concrete beams, 473 cubic yards of class AA concrete, 1,032 cubic yards of class A concrete, 1,255 cubic yards of …

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The U.S. 75 and State Highway 11 Gilcrease Interchange project is a westerly extension of SH-11 from U.S. 75 to Lewis Avenue in Tulsa. The project consisted of five bridges, two large reinforced box culverts, excavation of 278,000 cubic yards of dirt, 27,500 square yards of 10-inch concrete pavement, removal and reconstruction of Lewis Avenue, …

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