The action continues to pick up at our new television station on the Kilpatrick Turnpike.  For all the work that's been put in, there's one area that may need an improvement more than anything else.  But it may not get any attention for a few years.  The walls and frames are sealed, and a maze lines the roof.  Crews will continue to work on the inside, while the construction company is almost completely done with the outside structure for now.

Foreman Lance Pellegrini said. "We'll have to wait until the bricks totally done, and then there will be some stuff done up to before we can cap it off."

For every bolt, cut, and seal there's just as many thuds on Morgan Road.

"They're just in really bad shape," Pellegrini added.

It's the new station's primary access, and from Wilshire to Hefner, Morgan Road is a crater filled mess.

"You have to drive really slow with heavy equipment, there's a lot of dump trucks that drive up and down it going pretty fast," Pellegrini explained.

It was resurfaced a few years back north of Hefner, but untouched to the south.

Dennis Clowers, the Public Works Director for the City of Oklahoma City said, "We haven't done a very good job, just because he haven't had the funds to do it.  We've been playing catch up for a long time."

The last bond issue passed in December includes about $300 million dollars for roads, though nothing west of the Turnpike will be resurfaced under that program.  Clowers says it will become a priority in the future.

"We do have some unlisted monies in there that can go for any unspecific project, and that gives us a little bit of flexibility if priorities change," Clowers described.

Exactly how far into the future is unknown for an area which is booming with residential and commercial projects.

"There's so many more people using these roads here in the last 10 years, it's more than doubled, probably tripled or quadrupled," Pelligrini noted.

"It would probably be in the latter part of the delivery of that program which would be in 8-10 years from now," Clowers concluded.

The last bond issue was passed in Oklahoma City less than a year ago, and the next one could come as early as 2012.  Some big cranes were able to venture down Morgan Road this week, and put some large air conditioners on our new station.