I would like to see a four level stack or maybe even a dual level highway like I-35 through Austin.
I've very easy to tell which states actually take pride in their interchanges and which states do not. Along I-40, California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, and Tennessee design very elaborate and impressive interchanges. Oklahoma, Arkansas, and North Carolina are for some reason still doing cloverleafs. Charlotte's interchanges for the most part are worse than OKC's with the exception of one 4-level stack that is impressive. I would really like to see the I-40/I-44 interchange replaced with a 4 or 5 level stack.
What am I missing with this "4-level" or "5-level" stack fetish?
I'm not an engineer, but I do understand why different types of interchanges are more conducive to traffic flow. But I struggle to think of even one "3-level" let alone "4-level" or "5-level" stack interchange in St. Louis, and St. Louis is far larger with much more traffic than OKC. (We have at least eliminated cloverleafs for the most part). Things seem to run smoothly through our interchanges.
Seems like a colossal waste of resources if it's not really needed.
Fetish. Love it. I'm surprised anyone would have Texas envy...unless you lived in Dallas for 6 years. You know who you are ;-)
Texas cities - Dallas, Houston, and Austin are seeing explosive job growth, development, and population growth that OKC can currently only dream of. Texas does have its negatives especially for urbanists however. Their massive freeways promote major sprawl, but is OKC really that much different? Our urban, downtown community is still pretty small compared to the metro area as a whole. Texas has done a lot right which is why they are seeing the boom that they are seeing now. Don't take this post wrong; I am not saying that OKC isn't growing because it is, its just not growing at near the explosive rate Texas is.
and that is FINE by me.
Had someone in my store this weekend for his son's wedding and he's a long time resident of Fort Worth and he believes the transportation infrastructure down there is horrendous. They may be way ahead of us but it's still bad he says. Probably due to the "explosive" job growth, which is why Texas just keeps building bigger and bigger.
The ODOT eight year plan:
http://www.okladot.state.ok.us/cwp-8...021_OCARTS.pdf
From the link:
I-235/I-44 Interchange
FFY 2015 Grade, Draining, Bridge & Surface $23,301,063
FFY 2015 Grade, Draining, Bridge & Surface $31,310,000
FFY 2015 Force Account $1,750,000
FFY 2018 Grade, Draining, Bridge & Surface $31,000,000
FFY 2019 Grade, Draining, Bridge & Surface $40,949,293
FFY 2019 Grade, Draining, Bridge & Surface $24,000,000
Total $152,310,356I
I would guess from all this that the first two will be the NE and SE quadrants, the 2018 would be the lower of the flyover ramps, the first 2019 would be the higher of the flyover ramps and the last one would be the widening and work on the southbound 235 with the cloverleafs of the west side.
Hopefully it will get moved up like the other projects.
Anyone else notice that they are paving with an asphalt on the new & almost complete EB I44 to SB I-235 in the SW corner of the quadrant?
Is this temporary? They moved and cleared a LOT of area to just have one asphalt lane going through there.
And they typically only use concrete on highway projects. Must be temporary, but why?
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