I-344 I-240 I-335 Signage

[Scott5114]

I guess they had to make the I-344 marker too friggin' big so they would be sure it would cover up the old Kilpatrick OTA logo.

[Bobby5280]

Ugh.

The installers had one job...

[Scott5114]

Five o'clock hit and they only had so much green reflective tape on them, I guess. (They did go back and fix it after a few days, and those signs have since been replaced entirely.)

[jdingus]

The whole reason they numbered the JKT I-344 was the expansion down to the tri-city connector. 344 will connect to I-44 in the future.

Also Airport Road does need to be 240. They Might extend it to El Reno one day. Personally they should have just left 44 at I-35 in 1982. Kept 240 around the city.

[TXtoNJ]

Since the 240 extension has not been signed yet, and 335 and 344 have been, I wonder if the 240 extension will remain an unsigned route.

The only reason that I-240 hasn't been signed yet is that ODOT hasn't gotten around to it (while OTA has completed their stuff regarding 335 and 344). I am pretty sure that ODOT won't leave a route half-unsigned. Patience, young Padawan.

I'm fairly certain that's exactly something ODOT would do.

[The Ghostbuster]

Then should existing Interstate 44 south of the Interstate 240 interchange have remained without a highway designation, or should it have had a different designation, such as Interstate 33?

[Bobby5280]

I don't see I-44 getting re-named to something else because of planned ACCESS Oklahoma projects. There is no reason to do that anyway. The proposed Tri-City Connector turnpike would begin just East of the current I-335/I-240/SH-152 mash-up. It will extend South around the West and South sides of Will Rogers World Airport and merge into I-44 somewhere North of the Canadian River. The only potential overlap that could happen is crossing the Canadian River.

It would make sense to extend the I-344 designation along the Tri-City Connector in order to give I-240 a more logical terminus at its West end. The current West terminus sucks.

There's no telling what the East-West Connector designation could be. If OTA insists on a 3XX name and Interstate designation they'll be stuck having to extend the I-344 designation along that turnpike too. I think it would make more sense giving the East-West Connector a different I-x35 or I-x44 number.

The only way I could see something like "I-33" being applied to the OKC-Wichita Falls segment of I-44 is if it connected to another new corridor in Texas. It's getting into fictional territory, but the US-281 corridor running North of San Antonio could be a serious relief route for I-35. US-281 deserves to be Interstate quality from San Antonio up to Johnson City at the minimum. It could go so far as Lampasas where it could connected into proposed I-14. Extending up to Wichita Falls is a pretty big leap though.

[plain]

I guess they had to make the I-344 marker too friggin' big so they would be sure it would cover up the old Kilpatrick OTA logo.

Had to come back to this. That looks like a FL Toll Route on its side 

[Bobby5280]

The 74A route marker looks like a slot loading CD player with a disc poking out of it.

[Scott5114]

Is it better when they actually plan ahead?

[algorerhythms]

Is it better when they actually plan ahead?

Ooh, BBQ pulled pork! Oh... Subway.

[abqtraveler]

Southbound Broadway Extension:

That is a disproportionately large I-344 shield!

[Bobby5280]

The only good thing I can say about the Interstate shield on that sign is at least it's a proper state name shield with smaller Series C numerals that fit more comfortably in the space. Neutered shields with oversized Series D numerals just look stupid as hell.

[WillWeaverRVA]

Southbound Broadway Extension:

Holy crap, it looks like one of the enormous 270 and 495 shields on the Beltway.

[jdingus]

Still no I=240 signs on Airport Road. They also updated the BGS on I-44 at Airport Road still says OK-152

[The Ghostbuster]

Maybe they should drop the Interstate 240 extension and leave the roadway OK 152. It wouldn't be the worst thing in the world to do.

[Scott5114]

Maybe they should drop the Interstate 240 extension and leave the roadway OK 152. It wouldn't be the worst thing in the world to do.

Maybe they should stripe the lane lines with Swiss Miss® vanilla pudding. It also wouldn't be the worst thing in the world to do (though it would be a lot closer).

[PColumbus73]

Southbound Broadway Extension:

Holy crap, it looks like one of the enormous 270 and 495 shields on the Beltway.

Guess it's not the worst sign that's come out of Oklahoma