The Deathramp

[jakeroot]

The Sea-to-Sky Highway was rebuilt a few years ago to divided-highway standards. The BCMOT did a beautiful job. Not sure if many of you have driven it, but it's one for the books. Much of speed limit is 90-100 km/h.

Many of the merge areas along the highway are quite short, but often have lots of build-up area, so this 200-foot long merge isn't so bad in the end:

[Scott5114]

The Sea-to-Sky Highway was rebuilt a few years ago to divided-highway standards. The BCMOT did a beautiful job. Not sure if many of you have driven it, but it's one for the books. Much of speed limit is 90-100 km/h.

Many of the merge areas along the highway are quite short, but often have lots of build-up area, so this 200-foot long merge isn't so bad in the end:

In a way that's almost worse. If you have plenty of time to pick up speed but not much time to actually merge, you can end up a situation where you're at freeway speed and your options are to crash into a car running alongside or eat concrete at 60 mph.

[texaskdog]

That would be common in Texas.  You're just "on"

[JREwing78]

Here are some similar inadequate and unsafe ramps in Mackinaw City, Michigan, connecting northbound I-75 with East Jamet Street and southbound I-75 with West Jamet Street. The ramps were built in the late 1950s when I-75 was still US-23:

If that stretch of I-75 (and the bridge) allowed 55mph+ speeds, it would be a bigger deal. But by that point, speed limits are 45mph, there's been a bazillon signs announcing the bridge, and, well, the sight of the bridge itself should announce to drivers they're no longer on a high-speed roadway.

M-14 at Barton Dr in Ann Arbor is a much more unsafe situation; traffic is doing 70+ in a section with no shoulders and next to no distance to reach highway speeds. Oh, and there's far more traffic.

[Gnutella]

The Deathramp is a ramp that goes from E 51st Street S to eastbound I-44 in Tulsa, OK.   It serves Lewis Avenue as well as 51st Street.  This part of I-44 (Skelly Drive) was opened circa 1957.  It's a very dangerous ramp that will be going away when I-44 is reconstructed and rerouted in this area.  It obviously dates from the infancy of the Interstate system.  When was this ever considered good road design?  There's no reason they couldn't have built standard ramps at Lewis Avenue.  Here's a view of the Deathramp:



And here's a video, starting on WB 51st Street and ending up on EB I-44:

That looks like a Pittsburgh on-ramp.

[The Ghostbuster]

I think it is past time to get rid of The Deathramp.

[paulthemapguy]

I think it is past time to get rid of The Deathramp.

Are you referring to the fact that the Deathramp has been re-constructed in recent years?  Has anyone posted a link to what it looks like now?  There's new imagery for that side of I-44 as of January 2016.
https://goo.gl/maps/YWsCq4CtmAR2

In a similar vein, I-80 just north of Berkeley CA has some real tight on-ramps
https://goo.gl/maps/CDaRFfacCFm

[The Ghostbuster]

I had no idea it had been reconstructed. I've never been to Tulsa.

[silverback1065]

Here are some similar inadequate and unsafe ramps in Mackinaw City, Michigan, connecting northbound I-75 with East Jamet Street and southbound I-75 with West Jamet Street. The ramps were built in the late 1950s when I-75 was still US-23:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Mackinaw+City,+MI/@45.7836416,-84.7328179,277m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m2!3m1!1s0x4d358b3940a9ad83:0xeac771ab20cc7a7a

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Mackinaw+City,+MI/@45.783535,-84.732753,3a,75y,37.46h,82.63t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sdygSU_TSkkzIrfiDNUxtFA!2e0!4m2!3m1!1s0x4d358b3940a9ad83:0xeac771ab20cc7a7a

I thought that was US 27 back then.

[NE2]

I don't see the problem. A new lane started at the ramp and didn't end immediately.

Ghostbuster: you make the best contentless posts.

[rte66man]

I don't see the problem. A new lane started at the ramp and didn't end immediately.

It doesn't show very well on the aerial, but you are either going westbound on 51st St and have to do a VERY tight 180 to go eastbound on 44 or you are eastbound on 51st and have to stop before you can enter the ramp.  Plus the ramp is a steep uphill climb.  Put all that together and it was indeed a very scary onramp.

[texaskdog]

Here are some similar inadequate and unsafe ramps in Mackinaw City, Michigan, connecting northbound I-75 with East Jamet Street and southbound I-75 with West Jamet Street. The ramps were built in the late 1950s when I-75 was still US-23:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Mackinaw+City,+MI/@45.7836416,-84.7328179,277m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m2!3m1!1s0x4d358b3940a9ad83:0xeac771ab20cc7a7a

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Mackinaw+City,+MI/@45.783535,-84.732753,3a,75y,37.46h,82.63t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sdygSU_TSkkzIrfiDNUxtFA!2e0!4m2!3m1!1s0x4d358b3940a9ad83:0xeac771ab20cc7a7a

That town sure has changed since the last time I was there in 1995.