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The School Board is looking to hire a third party to investigate the flooding at the Peak Education Center.

FORT SMITH — The Arkansas Department of Transportation is considering public feedback before making a decision about how to improve truck traffic on U.S. 64 downtown. The highway enters Fort Smith from Oklahoma across the Garrison Avenue bridge, and then follows Garrison before turning northwest into Midland Boulevard and into Van Buren.

The Arkansas Department of Transportation is considering public feedback before making a decision about how to improve truck traffic on U.S. 64 downtown.

The Arkansas Department of Transportation is considering public feedback before making a decision about how to improve truck traffic on U.S. 64 downtown.

Times Record Estimated costs of constructing the I-49 bridge and a possible bridge to reroute traffic away from downtown Fort Smith arent cheap, but one state official says theres a lot to be considered in the projections. Halff Associates estimated the cost of constructing a bridge in eastern Oklahoma to reroute trucks off of Garrison Avenue would be $225 million. Its less than the estimated cost of the I-49 bridge to connect Chaffee Crossing to Alma, which Arkansas Department of Transporta...

Times Record The downtown player who proposed an alternate truck route has taken issue with the results of the downtown Fort Smith truck study, but those who executed the study say theres good reason for why they conducted it the way they did. Central Business Improvement District Commissioner Phil White in an email Wednesday said he saw three main proposed truck routes from Halff Associates downtown Fort Smith truck study as "options that are not options." He argued in his email that his pro...