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The predecessor agency to ODOT was the Department of Highways, which began operations in 1911, four years after Oklahoma statehood.The Department of Highways, consisting of four employees, was given an initial budget of $3,700. [6]
SH-41, which was an east-west route across west-central Oklahoma that began at the intersection of S.W. 29th and May Avenue in Oklahoma City and veered southwest to Mustang, Union City and Minco before continuing west through Binger, Eakly, Cordell and Sayre and then crossing the Texas border near Sweetwater, was redesignated as SH-152 over its ...
The Oklahoma City Crosstown is the de facto east–west artery through Oklahoma City, serving as an unofficial dividing line between north and south Oklahoma City (the official dividing line for address purposes is Sheridan Avenue). It is owned and maintained by the Oklahoma Department of Transportation (ODOT).
The Oklahoma City Boulevard plan became controversial when the full extent of ODOT's original intended design became public during an Oklahoma City Streetcar meeting. At that meeting, ODOT Division Director Paul Green explained ODOT's intent for a thoroughfare design rather than a traditional urban street type boulevard.
On August 2, 2021, the Oklahoma Transportation Commission approved the designation of the Kickapoo Turnpike as part of an extension of Interstate 240, forming a beltway around Oklahoma City. ODOT Director Tim Gatz stated in the Transportation Commission meeting that the numbering change was primarily to aid in navigation using digital mapping ...
State Highway 152 (abbreviated SH-152) is a state highway running through west-central Oklahoma.It begins at the Texas state line, serving as a continuation of Texas State Highway 152, and continues east to end at Interstate 344/Interstate 240(I-344/I-240) in southwest Oklahoma City, a length of 145 miles (233 km).
The latest secretary of transportation was Tim Gatz,the Executive Director of the Oklahoma Department of Transportation, [1] who was appointed by Governor Kevin Stitt in 2019. [1] In 2024, following an Attorney General's Opinion, Gatz resigned his position as Secretary of Transportation, leaving the position vacant.
State Highway 4, abbreviated as SH-4 or OK-4, is a designation for two distinct highways maintained by the U.S. state of Oklahoma. One of them serves as an important route through the suburbs west of Oklahoma City, while the other connects US-259 to the Arkansas state line west of Cove, Arkansas. SH-4 has no lettered spur routes.