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US-259 McCurtain County (South of Idabel)
bwana39:
They are straightening and widening a ~ 7 mile section from SH-87 going north toward idabel. It is widening the roadbed, bridges, and culverts. They are redoing the radiuses on a couple of curves and doing a major straightening / reroute in a different place. It still will not be something I would describe as straight, but probably will support 65 MPH or so.
In_Correct:
--- Quote from: bwana39 on September 08, 2023, 05:11:53 PM ---They are straightening and widening a ~ 7 mile section from SH-87 going north toward idabel. It is widening the roadbed, bridges, and culverts. They are redoing the radiuses on a couple of curves and doing a major straightening / reroute in a different place. It still will not be something I would describe as straight, but probably will support 65 MPH or so.
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How wide ? Probably adding shoulders since there are not any ?
Bobby5280:
The current US-259 road between Idabel and the Red River is pretty damned crooked. If this new straightened route is more of a diagonal path it could shave at least a few miles off the length of that highway segment.
If the new route is good enough perhaps TX DOT could make a more direct diagonal road from New Boston and I-30 up to that point where US-259 crosses the Red River. In bigger picture terms I think OKC needs a better diagonal path going Southeast to the Texarkana area. The current OK-3 route is pretty inadequate in its design as any sort of longer distance route.
bwana39:
--- Quote from: In_Correct on September 08, 2023, 06:36:02 PM ---
--- Quote from: bwana39 on September 08, 2023, 05:11:53 PM ---They are straightening and widening a ~ 7 mile section from SH-87 going north toward idabel. It is widening the roadbed, bridges, and culverts. They are redoing the radiuses on a couple of curves and doing a major straightening / reroute in a different place. It still will not be something I would describe as straight, but probably will support 65 MPH or so.
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How wide ? Probably adding shoulders since there are not any ?
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Currently is is 2 11' lanes with no shoulders at all, not even soft ones. That is what it looks like 2 12' lanes with paved shoulders.
bugo:
US 259 between OK 87 and Idabel was once OK 87. The Red River bridge was built in 1961 and US 259 was added to the system in 1963. I'm not sure when OK 87 was truncated to US 259, but ODOT maps still show it ending in Idabel. Incidentally, what is now OK 3 from Idabel east to the Arkansas line was OK 21, which also followed what is now US 259 north from Broken Bow to Smithville, where it turned east along modern OK 4 to end at the Arkansas line at AR 4. There is an old steel bridge in Smithville that was once a part of OK 21, but was never US 259 or OK 4.
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