A Look Ahead at the Toby Keith Expressway with the OTA

In this episode, Mayor Hamm discusses how Moore's city government is structured and a guest from the Oklahoma Turnpike Authority walks us through construction plans for the new Toby Keith Expressway.

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:07

Hey, welcome to episode two more stop, all things more. Um, they said it wouldn't last, Mark, but here we are. We've got one episode out, very well received in the community. So we're back with episode two. That's pretty exciting.

SPEAKER_01 0:21

It is, and thank you, Rob, for helping uh this dream become a reality. Episode one was wonderful. I've heard a lot of good things in our community about it. So looking forward to episode two.

SPEAKER_00 0:33

Episode two, here we go. Well, one of the things that I think about from time to time, because I don't I know a little bit about it, and I get asked questions about it, is the structure of our government. Um, City Hall. I mean, we've got city managers, we've got assistant city managers, we've got a mayor, we've got council members, we've got various departments that do all of these things that keep our growing city running and safe and all those things. Um, I wanted to talk a little bit today about how that's structured. And let's start with your job, Mr. Mayor Markham. Um your your salary is what? Three, four hundred, five hundred thousand dollars a year. I mean, you're raking in the big bucks, right?

SPEAKER_01 1:18

That would be amazing, uh, but that would not be true. As a mayor, I make three hundred dollars a month, and that is per our charter. And as a city council person, they make$100 a month. Now, recently our voters approved an increase in pays. So uh after the next election cycle, that councilperson or that mayor, the mayor will receive high five hundred dollars and a city councilperson will receive two hundred dollars a month.

SPEAKER_00 1:45

Wow, what are you gonna do with all that extra cash? I mean, that's um all right. So right now you're making three hundred dollars a month, they're making less than that. How much time do you spend doing the job? I mean, a lot of people would think, oh, it's a 40-hour a week job, but what do you do when you're not mayoring for lack of a better term?

SPEAKER_01 2:05

Right, and that's a great question, and I get it a lot. And when I talk with people, many people think I'm up here 40 plus hours a week, and I'm not. I actually have a full-time job that I spend 45 or 50 hours a week at, and in addition to that, I get to be the mayor because I was elected by our people. Now, the uh the the city has two uh council meetings a month, the first and the third Monday, so I'm here for those, and then throughout the week I have uh various meetings that the city manager or assistant city manager would like me to come to, or for example, we're uh uh recording this podcast and we're not doing it live, it's on uh a different day. So I come up here to do these kinds of things.

SPEAKER_00 2:50

And I'm gonna guess, I mean, obviously, we don't have any of the council members with us here today, but I'm gonna guess that their schedule is very similar. They work other jobs and they spend their council duties, work their council duties in around those jobs and based on the needs of the city and and what's going on at City Hall.

SPEAKER_01 3:08

Right. Uh I think two of our city council people are retired, but they all have other uh jobs and things that they do. Everyone that's serving on the city council is doing so but they because they love the city of Moore. Nobody is getting rich uh by uh being a council person or a mayor. I promise you that. Uh we serve uh because we love our city and we want to be a part of the decision making.

SPEAKER_00 3:33

All right, so let's talk then about the rest of the structure then, because you've got a city manager, you've got two assistant city managers. I mean, uh who's the boss? Who's in charge? How does the how do how do things flow along that chart?

SPEAKER_01 3:49

If you were to look at our flow chart, which it's on our webpage, you would see at the top of that flow chart are the citizens of Moore, Oklahoma. So ultimately the people that live here are the ones that are in charge. Now, those uh voters uh elect a mayor and a city council, and then the city council can only hire or fire one person, and that's the city manager. So in Moore, we have what we call a weak mayor, a strong city manager. So actually, a lot of the um power rests with the city manager. Now, the city manager works for the council and he listens to us because we're uh have immediate supervision over him, and I listen to the people when they give me a call, text, or emails uh about concerns and things that they have, and then we convey that to the city manager, then he'll convey it to his assistant city managers and so forth all the way uh through the flowchart.

SPEAKER_00 4:45

And we have two assistant city managers and they have different responsibilities, right?

SPEAKER_01 4:50

That's right. We have uh Jerry Eiler, who's over most of the infrastructure, um, so a lot of the uh the uh 4th Street underpass and other projects that will be coming along, as as uh most people that are listening this are aware that we have about$49 million worth of geobonds uh projects that we have yet to start. So Jerry Eiler's responsible for all of that, working with the engineers, architects, and and getting that all ready. Uh then we have our uh other assistant city manager, Dee Jerry, and she's over our parks uh and um HR and a lot of other uh administrative uh responsibilities within our city.

SPEAKER_00 5:29

Okay, so I want to make sure I've got my mind wrapped around this. Um basically Moore's set up, Moore's government is set up so that the people, the voters, the residents of Moore, they're the boss, they're the ones that control the city council. Right. And the mayor. So they vote, install, remove, so they have the top level of control. Yes. Um, and then it's the mayor and the city council, and then it's the city manager, which for us is Brooks Mitchell, and that's the chain of command.

SPEAKER_01 6:04

That's that's true. The uh that that would be the flow, that that's the chain, and we as a council are responsive to our citizens. Uh, and when they have concerns, we talk with our city manager about that, and then he'll look into it. And if changes need to be made, uh then changes will be made. If we're gonna we have a different uh geobond projects coming up, which hopefully uh we won't have to do any of those anymore. But uh Brooks works closely with the city council and says, hey, what are the next round of geobond projects? What streets, what are you hearing from the community? Where do we need to uh spend money to fix things?

SPEAKER_00 6:42

So, for instance, then um somebody in one of the communities, one of the wards and more, has a concern, it's a street concern, a sewage concern, a park concern. Um they have a clear path that they can follow to make those concerns known and have them addressed. How would you advise somebody in one of the wards to say, hey, if you have a concern, a question, a problem, here's what you do step by step.

SPEAKER_01 7:09

I always encourage people to reach out to their council person. Each ward has two city council people, and you can find those on our webpage, citymore.com, and you can see the mayor and you can see the council members and you can see what ward they represent. So I encourage you to reach out to them, their email, their phone number, it's all on there so you can find them pretty easy. And of course, you can always reach out to the mayor. But I'd like for those council people in those wards to be able to represent those people that elected them. And and just one quick example would be last year we had a lot of flooding over on the east side of Moore, and the residents that were directly impacted by that reached out to their city council, to their mayor, they came to city council meetings, and we heard them. And that is our number one priority of the next thing that needs to uh be addressed and uh uh fixed as best as we can. Again, if you have uh flooding like we've had, it's hard to completely mitigate all of that, but we can definitely upgrade the storm sewers to hopefully uh not have as much damage to people's homes as we have had the past few years. But that has directly uh come from the citizens that live in those areas reached out to me to their council people, came to the city hall meeting, they came to two or three meetings. We heard them, we as a council said, Brooks, we need to fix this. Uh, and then we started uh working with engineers and contracts and coming up with a plan and getting a cost of what something like that's gonna cost.

SPEAKER_00 8:47

Um, you mentioned the City of Moore webpage, um, and I have to say I go there all the time looking for information on events, looking for information on um the city parks, uh stuff for animal welfare. Uh the city of Moore does a great job of making all of this information available, including basic questions that we're talking about today. Who's my city council person?

unknown 9:15

Right.

SPEAKER_00 9:15

I mean, there's a ward map, there's a list of who the city council people are. Um I'm just looking at the menu right now, and you've got they have all the city services, community resources, departments and divisions, government, meetings and notices, news and updates, upcoming events. I mean, it's all there.

SPEAKER_01 9:34

It is, and uh, you know, it can be a little overwhelming. The city tries to put the most uh pressing issues on the very front page, so you go to citymore.com and there will be the things that most people are looking for. But you could uh explore on there and you can find our uh city budget for this current fiscal year that we in. It's all there. Anyone can go to it and look at everything that I see and see where the money's going. Um you can look at all the RFPs or requests for proposals, things that have been put out to bid. You can look at all of the current geobond projects that we have. Uh if you want to know who serves on the uh planning commission or on the parks board or the board of adjustment, it's all there. It's a wealth of information. If somebody would take 10 minutes to go and look around, uh, and they can probably have most of their questions answered.

SPEAKER_00 10:27

So again, that the City of Moore website, cityofmoor.com, that's a that's the place to go for all of the information that anybody could want to know about the the city government, about projects that are going on. Everything's there, everything's revealed. There's nothing hidden. Folks can go there and find that.

SPEAKER_01 10:48

They can. And if if by chance you go there and you can't find what it is that you're looking for, if you'll reach out to me, to your city council person, or to any of our city staff, our city manager, assistant city managers, we'll help you find it.

SPEAKER_00 11:02

Sounds good. Okay, we're gonna take a break, and when we come back, we're gonna have a guest from the OTA to talk about the big project that's getting ready to start up to the south of us. I think there's a lot of interest in that.

SPEAKER_01 11:15

Fantastic. Can't wait.

SPEAKER_00 11:21

Don't forget that on Tuesday, April 7th, more voters will have a chance to vote on a one-cent sales tax proposition. You'll find essential information about that proposition at cityofmoor.com slash election2026. On that page, you'll also find links to important general voting information, including how to find your polling place as well as how to register to vote. Follow the City of Moore's social media pages to stay current on all the important Moore news, events, and information. Hey, welcome back. Uh, we are joined now, Mayor Mark and I are joined by Ladanne Nelson with the OTA. A lot of exciting stuff going on right now in terms of highway projects and things that people are very interested in.

SPEAKER_01 12:17

There sure is. And Ladanne, we are thrilled to have you on our second edition of uh The More Stop. But before we begin, could you just tell us a little bit about yourself, whatever you want to tell us, who you work for, and exactly what your job and responsibilities are?

SPEAKER_02 12:33

Absolutely. Thank you, Mayor. My name is Ladanne Nelson. I am the Access Program Manager for the Oklahoma Turnpike Authority. So, what that means is I am over the$8.2 billion access program, and I have a great team that assists me on everything that funnels through the program. So a lot of great things that are happening for the infrastructure and for the state of Oklahoma, and we are very thrilled that we get to do some of these items with the City of Moore. As a citizen of the City of Moore, this resonates with me a lot because it we are able to see the improvements that go into the city, and I am part of that process.

SPEAKER_00 13:08

So two things.

SPEAKER_02 13:11

I am, yes.

SPEAKER_00 13:12

And I just want to make sure I got that number right. You said 8.2 billion. That's a fact, yeah. That's a lot of money.

SPEAKER_02 13:20

It is, it is, but it's all going for the the state of Oklahoma, and that's where it should go.

unknown 13:25

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 13:25

Well, awesome. Well, let me just start in with just some questions that I have, and these are questions that I often get from the community, and I thought, well, this would be a great time just to ask uh the OTA. So can you talk a little bit about the construction uh timeline? Can you give us maybe an idea of of uh the timeline and when can when the construction on the east-west corridor is to begin, and and maybe even more so for the parts of Moore, when can we begin to see uh it impacting our uh daily routine?

SPEAKER_02 13:56

Absolutely, great question. So, one one fact that we have now changed over the East West Connector Turnpike now over to the Toby Keith Expressway. So you're going to see a lot of East West Connector language as well as Toby Keith Expressway as we are moving on to that new language.

SPEAKER_00 14:13

It'll be the same thing.

SPEAKER_02 14:14

Yes, sir. It's the exact same turnpike just with the with a with the new name. Okay. Yes.

SPEAKER_00 14:19

Do we have we decided on a theme song? I mean, again, I I love this expressway. I love this east west connector.

SPEAKER_02 14:26

I we we're having we're having a lot of fun with that, so we've been throwing a couple options out, and if you want to give us some options too, we will take that into consideration.

SPEAKER_00 14:34

Okay, there we go.

SPEAKER_02 14:35

But for the uh Toby Keith Expressway slash East West Connector Turnpike, we have already started construction on that, and that is between I-35 and I-44. We have a couple jobs that are active in construction. So that started in late 2025, and that is going to progress on until 2027. So this first priority segment, again from I-44 to I-35, is going to be opening to the traveling public by the very end of 2027. Okay. So what that means is that the traveling public will be able to utilize one lane of traffic in each direction as we are, this is a this is a minimum connection. So we are going to be having one lane in each direction open, and then that we're going to progressively continue the construction in through 2028, and then that's where the traveling public will see interchanges also opening up, such as the Western interchange, and then over time we're going to be having a half diamond interchange at telephone 36 that will happen sometime after 2028. Okay. So that they will be they'll be able to utilize that as uh as early as late 2027. So and that's coming up very quickly.

SPEAKER_01 15:50

Yes, that is. That's uh gonna be moving along fast. And I understand that it's gonna be uh as it goes through what I've always called the 10 mile flats, it's gonna be one of the the the longest bridge in Oklahoma, is that correct?

SPEAKER_02 16:03

Yeah, yeah. So there's there's two bridges that so for we have a bridge on the 10 mile flats itself, and that is a pretty long bridge because we're spanning out of the 10 mile flats floodplain, as well as we are we're going to be building the longest bridge in the state to date, which is going over the South Canadian River. Okay. So that's going to be about 7,000 feet long. Wow. And we we are proud to say that we're gonna have the longest bridge in the state that is spanning over the South Canadian River, which is a huge bonus to all the surrounding communities because that is another vital river crossing that everyone can utilize.

SPEAKER_01 16:42

All right. Well, can you tell me what will the traffic impact be for the residents of Moore as the construction moves closer to our southern border? Um, and though and residents here that may use that as a daily commute, uh, what can we expect from the uh construction? Will Indian Hills be closed? Will it always still be open or what?

SPEAKER_02 17:05

Yeah, so this is I I love this question because this is this is extremely important for the traveling public to know. So starting in 2027, and we'll give the time frame around March and April, we're going to start the tie-in of the Toby Keith Expressway slash east-west connector at I-35. So there's going to be times where we have to shift traffic along I-35. I-35 will always be two lanes in each direction. So we won't ever pinch it down any any tighter than two lanes. But there's going to be nighttime closures for bridge operations that will be ongoing that the traveling public will experience. There's going to be a point where Indian Hills interchange is going to close, and the traveling public's going to have to utilize the posted detours that we're going to be putting out, such as 19th Street or anything along uh Tecumseh and Norman. We are also going to be converting the frontage roads over to one way. And that is going to be between 19th Street and Indian Hills. As well as we're going to be putting in collaboration with the Department of Transportation, we're going to be putting in a turnaround bridge that is south of 19th Street. So as we have the one-way frontage that is occurring, this is going to be a turnaround bridge at 19th that allows for that free-flow movement. So no one has to stop at 19th Street and go through all the signals that we're all used to. The traveling public is not going to have to utilize to go to and from locations because now we have changed the two-way over to one way, which is a big change for the community.

SPEAKER_01 18:42

Will there be access roads on either side of the turnpike? Because you said it's going to be one way.

SPEAKER_02 18:48

Yes, so for both cases, yes. So we're going to be converting the I-35 frontage roads that are currently there to one-way frontage, as well as the east-west frontage roads are going to be one way, and those are going to be throughout the full extent of Moore as well as Norman, and those are going to be maintained by Cleveland County.

SPEAKER_01 19:10

Okay. Yes. So there'll be multiple access points onto the turnpike through the corridor.

SPEAKER_02 19:18

Absolutely. Yes. And one of the big pros of the frontage road systems that we are going to be adding is that those frontage roads are free. So there's no tolls along the east-west frontage roads, and there's never a toll on I-35 frontage roads. So the traveling public can utilize those like any frontage road across the state. But once they get on a turnpike system, that's whenever they are tolled.

SPEAKER_01 19:41

Well, how just I don't know if you if y'all are ready to announce this and just a ballpark, but what would it cost to utilize the toll? And I know there are pip is a pike pass, and is there a discounted rake if you if you buy the pike pass versus just a one-time use?

SPEAKER_02 19:58

Yeah, so the the pike pass is the way to go. The pike pass is the cheapest, most efficient way, so we strongly urge everyone to get a pike pass. And if you ever need a pike pass, uh mayor, you can send them our way. We'll we will get them all set up. But the the pike pass is the cheapest route to go, or they could utilize the plate pay. The plate pay does not have anything like any readers on their cars. It's our readers that are catching their license plate and will send a bill on later, which is typically uh higher. The toll rates themselves along the eastwest connector slash Toby Heath Expressway, they're gonna be very, very similar to the John Kilpatrick turnpike because the John Kilpatrick is an urban turnpike with a lot of interchanges. The East West Connector is classified as the same. And we are we're as we are progressively going to be opening up the East West Connector slash Toby Heath Expressway in segments, we are going to be getting those toll rates approved at that time. So our first toll rate for the East West Connector should be sometime in early 2027.

SPEAKER_01 21:02

Can you talk a little bit about 34th Street? The voters in Moore uh several years ago voted to build a bridge uh over I-35, and we had always designed that so they could maybe someday have uh access ramps. And I've just heard different stories that yes, it's gonna have ramps or no, it's not gonna have ramps. So I'll just ask: do you know yet if we're gonna have on-off ramps for the 34th Street Bridge?

SPEAKER_02 21:29

So there will not be direct ramps that tie into 34th, but there's going to be ramps that are gonna be near 34th. So with the operational improvements that we are doing in collaboration with the Department of Transportation, we are going to be shifting the two ramps that are south of 19th Street. We're gonna be shifting them south to to to a location that is just north of 34th. Okay. So that means the traveling public is going to be exiting or entering at a different location. And that gets them a little bit closer to 34th, but not necessarily a 34th Street.

SPEAKER_01 22:07

So there would be access to a uh exit ramp further down or or further in front of the 34th Street.

SPEAKER_02 22:15

Correct. And if they want to utilize like from the Toby Keith Expressway slash East West Connector, if if the uh the traveling public wants to utilize that, they would have to to get to 34th, they would have to exit near Indian Hills Road and continue utilizing the one-way frontage road. And that that um that will help with the the accessibility to the businesses in that area just right before they get to 34th, and they will still have that full access to that bridge.

SPEAKER_01 22:44

Well, I think and the last question that I have because we're running uh out of time would just be uh what are going to be some of the uh the benefits beyond the I-35 traffic traffic flow and this new uh corridor, Toby Keith corridor, what can we expect from a lot of these frontage roads? Uh I assume uh businesses pop up along there to provide services to the new traffic.

SPEAKER_02 23:12

Yeah, absolutely. And so that we are going to be building frontage roads. We have 18 miles of frontage roads along the east-west connector slash Toby Heath Expressway, and a lot of that that that impacts more is on the east side of I-35, that is along that um eastern area over there making its way towards Sooner Road and just a little bit past Sooner Road. So there's gonna be that one-way frontage roads that are going to be there, they're gonna be free to the traveling public. If businesses want to move in, they will have great accessibility because there's gonna be a lot of interchanges, so they can get to and from the turnpike system very easily. Uh, over time we are going to be um making the the east-west connectors to Tobiquita Expressway an interstate, which really helps with the uh the accessibility and people wanting to be closer towards an interstate. So there's a lot of pros in there. And one thing I do want to mention that for for the state of Oklahoma for citizens to come into Moore, we are going to be opening the rest of the Toby Keith Expressway East West Connector, where it ties in from I-35, where it ties into I-40 the Kickapoo by 2030. So that means citizens that are coming in from Tulsa area, from Shawnee, they can continue onto the turnpike system and exit near, you know, Broadway or by sooner, and they can get into that more area a lot quicker and not have to go through the Oklahoma City Metro. Right. So that'd be a huge time savings, and that brings in a lot more people into more, which we which we like.

SPEAKER_01 24:49

We do for for sure. Cities uh live and die by sales taxes, so vital to us being able to provide all the things that people expect. And just uh as a closing thought for me, and if you have something that you would like to say that we haven't asked, I think of I-35 and in the 50s when it was built, uh, and it came right down the middle of Moore, Oklahoma. And I've gone back and read some of the history, and there were people that were upset. But change is never easy. All of us now can't imagine what life would be like without I-35 because we use it. And I know that the turnpike uh is change and it uh creates a lot of uh uncertainty or discomfort for people. Um but I think that there will be a time, just when I go to Tulson now, I take the turnpike just because it's the quickest and most efficient way to get to where I want to go. So appreciate OTA and all that you're doing and all the challenges that you have, appreciate the work that you've done with the city of Moore and the meetings that we've had, and look forward to good things. And is there anything else that you would like to add that that uh we didn't ask?

SPEAKER_02 25:58

Well, Mayor, I sincerely appreciate all of the positive comments that you have given over to us because we we are one team, and that includes the city of Moore. So we definitely appreciate the partnership that you all have had with us since day one, and we we thrive to continue to have that same partnership. I know we've had a couple projects with you all, including the effluent line, and we plan on breaking ground on that one in April, and we we couldn't do that without the collaboration and the hard work that we have as that team. So thank you again for those comments, and thank you for having us on this podcast.

SPEAKER_01 26:32

Yeah, you bet, and just so uh listeners would know the affluent line, the line that you're talking about, goes from our sewer plant to the discharge, and uh the OTA is uh having to relocate that and in the process going to be replacing it, and that's at no cost to the uh city of Moore.

SPEAKER_02 26:49

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_01 26:50

So that's a huge um financial burden that our residents are gonna have to shoulder.

SPEAKER_02 26:55

That that's absolutely right. Yes.

SPEAKER_01 26:57

Well, thank you so much. Rob, did you have a question or two?

SPEAKER_00 27:00

One question for folks that want to keep track of the projects, because you have a lot of projects going on, some of those projects impact I-35 folks around here. What's the best way for folks to keep track of what's going on?

SPEAKER_02 27:13

Everyone can go to the Source of Truth, which is the AccessOklahoma.com website. Once we have projects that go into construction, we put updates on that as well as we put out media blast and through via email. And we are constantly communicating with you know other stakeholders or putting it on social media outlets that hey, this is the upcoming work and this is what the uh the traveling public is going to be expecting. So we usually post on our social medias, but the the the biggest location is going to be that accessoclahoma.com website.

SPEAKER_00 27:46

Well, Dan, thanks so much. I'll join with Mark in saying thank you for being here. A lot of information, um, but very valuable, very helpful information. So thanks so much for joining us.

SPEAKER_02 27:57

Yes, thank you. Happy to be here.

SPEAKER_00 27:59

And we'll be right back after this. The City of Moore's annual spring marketplace is coming up on Saturday, April 25th at the Moore Central Park Pavilion. That's located at 700 South Broadway Avenue. Open from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., this year's marketplace will feature more than 50 vendors selling handmade items, crafts, quilts, yard art, food, and direct sale products. The Oakie Bean Coffee Truck will be on hand for folks in need of caffeine. Again, that's coming up from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, April 25th at the Moore Central Park Pavilion. Hey, welcome back for our final segment. This is the segment where we take a question from the community. That question can come from email, social media, passing conversation, uh, anything like that. And one of the questions that um keeps coming up is what Geobond project is next?

SPEAKER_01 29:09

Great question, and I appreciate uh our citizens asking and wanting to know. I will tell you, Rob, right now it's between 19th and telephone or the 27th and SHILDS and Janeway. Um we have to get further along in the 4th Street Underpass because that is such a uh big project that has such a huge impact on traffic flow. So we can't have that shut down and then shut down another major intersection. But once we get the 4th Street Underpass closer to completion, the next the next Geobond project uh more than likely would be 19th in telephone. It could possibly be 27th of January, but I I think it'd be 19th in telephone. And that is going to be the rebuild of um telephone between 19th Street and almost all the way to 34th Street. Currently, utility relocation is happening. So the city reaches out with all the entities that have utilities, whether it's gas, power, um, whomever, and they they are responsible for remove moving their own utilities. They won't let the city do it. They have to do it, and uh they have removed moved those further along so that we can do all the work that we need to do on telephone.

SPEAKER_00 30:30

And that's good news because if I remember correctly, one of the reasons the eastern um project was delayed so long is because the utilities, those companies took for it had nothing to do with the city, it had to do with the utility companies moving their stuff. So the fact that those are already being moved really does bode well for that telephone road project.

SPEAKER_01 30:50

It does, and the city never moves forward on a project until we get a thumbs up from uh that particular utility, and that they send us a letter saying, yes, our utilities are clear, uh, you are free to move forward with your project. And once we have all of those letters, then we start. One thing that I've learned about being on the council and getting to learn a lot about municipal government is when you start doing things that are underground, uh, there's always surprises. So sometimes you find a utility line that was abandoned or they didn't know that's where it was. Uh, but in this instance, uh they are in there moving them, relocating them, and so hopefully that will not be an issue because we can't have streets shut down that long.

SPEAKER_00 31:36

Yeah. And by the way, you mentioned the 4th Street underpass. Um, I was over shooting a drone video yesterday. The shoe fly is now in use. The trains are using the shoe fly, which means crews can now work on the supports and and all of that stuff for the actual the new bridge.

SPEAKER_01 31:53

That's fantastic. I was over there on the weekend, so uh didn't get to see the guys working, but yeah, so starting on that the uh the main bridge that will uh support the train as it goes uh above is gonna be a huge project, and I think once they get that done, uh the rest of it will go pretty quickly because it's just putting up those huge retaining walls and then laying the roadway. So, of course, the bridge is the biggest piece of this project.

SPEAKER_00 32:22

That's gonna be a huge one, and a like you said, one of the biggest pieces of the project. All right. Well, um, folks, if you have a question for Mayor Mark or um any of our guests here on Moore Stop uh social media, just go to the City of Moore's social media, Facebook, X, Instagram, and post a question there or email us.

SPEAKER_01 32:43

Yeah, you can send Rob or me uh an email and we'll get those and uh answer them. And if we have the time, we'll try to answer a couple of them.

SPEAKER_00 32:53

Outstanding. Well, it's been a fun second episode, and we will look forward to episode three.

SPEAKER_01 32:59

We will, and I'm excited about the guests that we have lined up, and we have some really good community leaders are going to be coming in and speaking about projects that are near and dear to their heart and to the city of Moors as well.

unknown 33:12

Thanks.

SPEAKER_00 33:13

And in the meantime, folks, have a great and safe time out there in the streets of Moore.

SPEAKER_01 33:19

We'll see you later.