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By March 1, 1930, the department name had been modified slightly to simply the Oklahoma Department of Highways. [9] In 1976, the Oklahoma Legislature restructured the Department of Highways as an overall coordinating agency for the state's highways, railways and waterways and renamed to the Oklahoma Department of Transportation.
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.
Mike Patterson earned his Bachelor's degree in Accounting and Master's degree in Finance from the University of Central Oklahoma. Patterson first worked for the Oklahoma Department of Transportation (then known as the State Highway Department) in 1970 as a summer intern. His father worked in ODOT's planning division from 1961 to 1987.
The Oklahoma Turnpike Authority (formerly Oklahoma Transportation Authority) is an agency of Oklahoma that deals with issues regarding the Oklahoma turnpike system. Along with the Oklahoma Department of Transportation , the Authority is the primary infrastructure construction and maintenance agency of the State.
Gary Milo Ridley, PE (September 29, 1945 – December 21, 2022) was an American engineer and civil servant from the state of Oklahoma most notable for concurrently serving as the state's Secretary of Transportation, Director of the Department of Transportation, and the Director of the Oklahoma Turnpike Authority between 2009 and 2013.
Through Oklahoma and Arkansas, dams artificially deepen and widen the modest-sized river to build it into a commercially navigable body of water. The design enables traffic to overcome an elevation difference of 420 feet (130 m) between the Mississippi River and the Tulsa Port of Catoosa. [ 2 ]
SH-7 Spur was built by the Oklahoma Turnpike Authority (OTA) as the westernmost segment of the Chickasaw Turnpike, which opened on September 1, 1991. [12] It was transferred from OTA to ODOT on August 1, 2011, receiving the SH-7 Spur designation and becoming a free road. It was the first segment of turnpike in Oklahoma to be transferred to ODOT.
As a result, the OTA could not obtain financing to build that proposed turnpike and turned the initial plans including surveys and blueprints over to the Oklahoma Department of Transportation in 1956 for the construction of I-35 as a freeway on that same alignment, which was completed in several stages between 1958 and 1962.