Driving Forward OK - Oklahoma Turnpike Improvements and New Construction

[stile99]

Unfortunately they are not looking at how much transportation is going to change in the next 10-20 years. Regional desire for public transportation options, living closer to work, one-car households, ridesharing, biking, walking, etc. Plus driverless cars.

They're building in the real world, not the fantasy land you describe. Other than the driverless cars (and even that is going to take more than a generation, there are still PLENTY of cars from the 80s and even earlier still on the road today), everything you list is what you WANT to happen, but won't.

[heyerdahl]

They're building in the real world, not the fantasy land you describe. Other than the driverless cars (and even that is going to take more than a generation, there are still PLENTY of cars from the 80s and even earlier still on the road today), everything you list is what you WANT to happen, but won't.

I'm not saying this will be a fantasy land where no one drives. Even if only 10% of people change their transportation behavior in 20 years, that's a huge difference for our roads and highways.

Planning and building to incentivize that 10% change is a viable congestion management alternative to 'expand highway until you're totally gridlocked.' Dallas and Houston already previewed that strategy for us, and now they have been playing catchup to provide alternatives to long and stressful commutes.