What this is

This is the city’s public to-do list for major construction: every street, bridge, drainage, park and traffic project Oklahoma City has planned or underway, with a budget and a schedule attached.

Why it matters to you

That orange cone on your commute started as a row in this dataset. If you want to know why a street is torn up, when a project near you is supposed to finish, or whether the city is actually spending what it promised on a neighborhood bond project, this is the ledger to check. For small businesses, a “Planned End Date” can mean the difference between a normal summer and a summer of detoured customers — worth knowing before you lease, hire, or stock inventory.

How to read this data

  • Project Phase — where a project sits in its life: planning, design, under construction, or complete. Filter for “under construction” to see what’s actively affecting streets today.
  • Planned Start Date / Planned End Date — the city’s estimate. Treat these as a forecast, not a promise.
  • Actual Start Date — when work really began. The gap between planned and actual is the single most honest number in city infrastructure: compare them and you’ll see how realistic the estimates were.
  • Estimated Budget — the sticker price in USD. Note the word “estimated” — the dataset is honest about it.

Try it yourself

Open the data service, filter Project Phase = “under construction” in your part of town, and check the gap between Planned and Actual Start Date. Pick the project with the biggest gap and ask yourself: what would make a city’s schedule slip by that much?