By John Dobberstein, Editor
Concerned about traffic jams, delays or safety issues on Broken Arrow’s streets? The city wants to hear from you.
Broken Arrow officials have released a short survey to ask residents what streets and intersections should be a priority, as city planners look toward the transportation portion of the 2026 GO Bond election.
According to this year’s lengthy, overarching Citizen Survey, can be reviewed here, only 40% of Broken Arrow residents answering the transportation portion of that survey were happy with how traffic flows around the city.
As Oklahoma’s fourth-largest city, city officials said they know there are traffic challenges to address. The survey mentions some 40 different locations around the city, both north-south and east-west thoroughfares, as well as intersections.
City Manager Michael Spurgeon said there is a limited amount of funding for road projects and city staff need to know what the priorities are with community feedback. He noted that street projects used to make up about 90% of previous bond packages, but that percentage has gone down since the city started adding quality of life and public safety projects.
Spurgeon said there are 9 to 10 miles of roads int wo different bond packages that are currently in the construction cycle and another 10 miles of roads that are going to be widened in the next 3-4 years. The 2026 bond package could add another 15 miles of roads to the list.
“By having the feedback, the council can say this was community driven by the fact that the survey results showed that these are the roads the public felt like were the top priority,” Spurgeon said this week. “I think there’s a whole separate discussion on the infrastructure needed to support future growth of our community, but we need to take care of what’s here first.”
Residents can take the survey here. Polco, an online civic engagement platform for surveys and polling, is hosting the survey, which will remain open through June 26. Those want to see progress on current projects already underway can go to the City’s website and review the Broken Arrow Capital Improvements and GO Bond projects map.
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