November Transportation Commission meeting scheduled for Monday, Nov. 4

The Oklahoma Transportation Commission’s mon­thly meeting is scheduled for 11 a.m. Monday, Nov. 4, in the R.A. Ward Transportation Building, 200 N.E. 21^st St., Oklahoma City. Members of the public and media are invited to attend or watch the livestream.

Items to be addressed at the meeting:

• Oklahoma Department of Transportation Executive Director Tim Gatz and commissioners will welcome newly appointed District 2 Commissioner Eric Stuteville.
• The Oklahoma Asphalt Pavement Association will present a national award to ODOT.
• Gatz will update commissioners on the progress of a $74 million bridge replacement on US-62 over the Arkansas River/MKARNS navigation channel in Muskogee.
• The commission will vote on whether to award several contracts, among them a $30 million project to construct a new railroad bridge over SH-37/4^th along with other safety improvements in Moore; a $26 million pavement rehabilitation project on US-270 with interchange improvements at the US-270/Kickapoo Spur interchange in Shawnee; and an $11 million project to add shoulders to US-183 in Buffalo, the second of three improvement projects along the corridor.

The full agenda packet 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)

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.