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<blockquote data-quote="Clay" data-source="post: 1824941"><p>Heres the catch between good planning/design and poor planning/design when there are many millions of dollars to be had. POLITICS.</p><p>That is the simple reason for the scheduling of the Tulsa projects as they are today. We...I mean ODOT, would and have always given consideration to construction times with reguard to school schedules, conflicting projects/alternate routes, and even migratory birds. </p><p>Obama gave OK XX billion dollars to spend on "shovel ready" projects and we had literally 3 month to let these projects to recieve funding WITH the stipulation that they began work within a near timeframe. The intent was to creat jobs when what actually happened is we employed every single OK contractor almost overnight with several large contracts still to let so all these small time, out of state contractors came crawling up employing many non OK companies. The tulsa city counsil and other suits pushed hard to get this money in their districts and it happened.</p><p>With no reguard to how ODOT "normally" would schedule and operate such an undertaking.</p><p></p><p>We at ODOT really do know what we are doing and work for the beterment of all comunities, we are also restricted by the funding and politics day to day.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Clay, post: 1824941"] Heres the catch between good planning/design and poor planning/design when there are many millions of dollars to be had. POLITICS. That is the simple reason for the scheduling of the Tulsa projects as they are today. We...I mean ODOT, would and have always given consideration to construction times with reguard to school schedules, conflicting projects/alternate routes, and even migratory birds. Obama gave OK XX billion dollars to spend on "shovel ready" projects and we had literally 3 month to let these projects to recieve funding WITH the stipulation that they began work within a near timeframe. The intent was to creat jobs when what actually happened is we employed every single OK contractor almost overnight with several large contracts still to let so all these small time, out of state contractors came crawling up employing many non OK companies. The tulsa city counsil and other suits pushed hard to get this money in their districts and it happened. With no reguard to how ODOT "normally" would schedule and operate such an undertaking. We at ODOT really do know what we are doing and work for the beterment of all comunities, we are also restricted by the funding and politics day to day. [/QUOTE]
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