October Transportation Commission meeting scheduled for Monday, Oct. 3

The Oklahoma Transportation Commission’s monthly meeting is scheduled for 11 a.m. Monday, Oct. 3, in the R.A. Ward Transportation Building, 200 N.E. 21^st St., Oklahoma City. Members of the public and media are invited to watch the livestream video online.

 Items to be addressed at the meeting:

• The commission will consider approval of the Oklahoma Department of Transportation’s Eight-Year Construction Work Plan for Federal Fiscal Years 2023-2030. The annually updated plan contains $8.4 billion in highway improvements statewide for the next eight years. They will also be presented with the department’s Asset Preservation Plan.
  
  
• Secretary of Transportation and ODOT Executive Director Tim Gatz will discuss the recent closure of I-35 in Oklahoma City for an ongoing resurfacing project and if the I-35 south corridor will be affected during the upcoming OU vs. Texas weekend.
  
  
• The commission will be asked to vote on whether to award several contracts, among them a more than $170 million interchange reconstruction at I-40 and Douglas Blvd. in Oklahoma City, installation of wrong way detection systems on I-35 between Oklahoma County and Kansas, a pavement rehabilitation project on US-62 over SH-165 near the Muskogee Turnpike and a diverging diamond interchange reconstruction project at US-169 and the Creek Turnpike in Tulsa.

The full agenda may be viewed here.

To watch the commission meeting video livestream:

• Ustream (Turn up the volume on your computer or other device and on Ustream)
• Zoom (Link to meeting won’t be active until meeting is about to begin)
• The meeting also will be recorded, captioned and available to the public online later.

The commission, a nine-member panel appointed by the governor and legislative leaders to oversee the state’s transportation development, awards project contracts for road and bridge construction on a monthly basis.