Goodyear Boulevard extension, Duncan bypass among projects set for funding by ODOT

Lawton’s Goodyear Boulevard extension and the Duncan bypass project are among more than $9 billion in improvement projects scheduled for Oklahoma highways and bridges over the next eight years by the Oklahoma Department of Transportation.

The Oklahoma Transportation Commission approved the list earlier this week, setting the Eight-Year Construction Work Plan into place to tackle needed transportation improvements in Fiscal Years 2025-2032. Improvements are designed to enhance safety and travel reliability of the interstate and highway systems across Oklahoma, ODOT officials said.

That project list includes a project Lawton business and city leaders have been pursuing for years: extending Goodyear Boulevard in Lawton’s west industrial park. The plan would create an industrial bypass that supporters say will take heavy truck traffic off city streets while providing heavy truck drivers a more direct route to Interstate 44.

The project has been allocated $21,333,333 in the 2025 budget year for a project that would extend Goodyear Boulevard (which now dead-ends at Old Cache Road) north one-half mile, to tie into U.S. 62/Rogers Lane. It also would create a new interchange at U.S. 62 to ease traffic flow, city planners said.

Duncan officials also would see funding coming their way in the 2025 budget year, $19,775,376 for the 1-mile Duncan bypass project at Elk Avenue. That work, part of ongoing efforts on the bypass around Duncan’s west side, would build an overpass and interchange, with the bypass elevated over Elk Avenue.

Other projects planned for the region in the next three years include:

Project Year 2025:

Widening and resurfacing U.S. 277 from 1.56 miles north of the Cotton County line north 3 miles (near Geronimo), $15 million.

Resurfacing U.S. 81 from 0.17 miles north of County Road 1650 north 3.99 miles to Grady County Line (near Marlow), $2.817 million.

Project Year 2026

I-44 northbound and southbound bridge over Wolf Creek, 2.7 miles north of the Oklahoma 36 junction, $7 million.

Oklahoma 7 westbound bridge over East Cache creek, 1.1 miles east of U.S. 281-Business in Lawton, $7 million.

Resurfacing U.S. 62, beginning 10.35 miles east of U.S. 283 Junction in Altus, east 8 miles, $5.62 million.

Project Year 2027

Resurface Oklahoma 54 in Kiowa County, beginning at the junction of U.S. 62 and extending north 8 miles, $2.6 million.

Bridge and surface work on Oklahoma 58 near Medicine Park, from Oklahoma 49 northwest 6.4 miles, $24 million.

Bridge on Oklahoma 36 over West Cache Creek, 6.2 miles northeast of the Tillman County line, $4 million.

Resurfacing U.S. 81 in Stephens County from 3.93 miles south of the junction with the Oklahoma 7 Spur, north 3.7 miles in northbound lanes, $2.16 million.

An interactive map showing all projects set by ODOT is available on the ODOT homepage at www.odot.org, under Programs and Projects, then “8-Year ODOT Construction Projects.”