Broken Arrow in Motion-Transportation

This episode of Broken Arrow in Motion is all about transportation, so let's hit the pavement with Ward 4 Councilor Justin Green.

Here are three project updates on Houston Street. At the Houston Street Widening Project from County Line Road to Old Highway 51, the crew is improving drainage, including storm drains, curbs, and gutters on the south side of the roadway. Eastbound and westbound traffic is shifted to the north side of the street. The new signal poles are expected to arrive around Christmas.

The $4.6 million Houston Street widening project from Aspen to Olive Avenues is a 2018 General Obligation Bond project, and it is nearing completion. The final load of asphalt needed to finish the project has been delayed. We expect it to arrive during Thanksgiving week, and then Becco Construction will complete the project.

A full-depth reconstruction project is underway on Houston Street east of Midway. To accommodate construction, the west half of East Houston Street is closed. We are replacing 1,000 feet of storm pipe in the northside drainage ditch, and new storm inlets should arrive next week. The northside ditch is ready for the storm pipe installation, and the driveway pipes have already been replaced. We are preparing to install the asphalt base layer. Once the drainage improvements are in place, we will continue roadway base repairs at the east end of the project and install the final asphalt lift.

At the Oklahoma Department of Transportation project on County Line Road between Omaha and Albany streets in north Broken Arrow, the contractor is currently widening both sides of the roadway for the new bridge.

In south Broken Arrow, work continues on the 9th Street and Washington Street intersection project. The construction crew is still working on the curbs and inlet connections. The City's Engineering and Construction Department expects to finish this project around Christmas.

Now let's discuss two street maintenance projects.

At Lynn Lane, between New Orleans and Washington, a contractor milled the pavement edges and added two inches of asphalt. Our Streets Department followed up with new striping.

Also on Washington Street, from Lynn Lane to First Place, the roadway has been milled, and we overlaid two inches of asphalt from First Place to the work at Washington and 9th Street. Multi-polymer street striping will follow to complete this project.

Lastly, the First Place Waterline and Trail Project improved the water infrastructure and walking/biking trail between Washington and New Orleans. This combined infrastructure and connectivity initiative replaced an 8-inch waterline, originally installed in 1911, with new lines and advanced the Broken Arrow Creek Trail along First Place. As the project nears completion, Engineering and Construction will conduct a final walk-through with the contractor this week to wrap it up.