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Cashless Tolling coming soon to Oklahoma
Great Lakes Roads:
Looking at the plans for the cashless tolling conversion of the H.E. Bailey Turnpike (I-44), here's what I gathered:
-At the Walters exit (Exit 20), traffic exiting to OK 5 and merging onto I-44 will have its own "CD Lane". The entering traffic will yield to the exiting traffic.
-The toll gantries at exit 20 will be about .4 miles south and about .8 miles north.
-At the Chickasha Mainline Toll Plaza, the cash lanes will be closed, and all traffic will be using the open-road tolling lanes in the center.
-At the Newcastle Mainline Toll Plaza as well as the HEB Spur Mainline Toll Plaza, the existing toll booth will be demolished to make way for the new cashless toll gantry.
Great Lakes Roads:
https://www.kswo.com/2022/06/14/pike-pass-changes/
https://www.southwestledger.news/news/he-bailey-turnpike-converting-totally-cashless-tolls
Starting on or after June 21st, the H.E. Bailey Turnpike switches to cashless tolling between OKC and Lawton. Demolition of the toll plazas will commence after the switch. The stretch between Lawton to the Texas state line will switch to cashless tolling sometime in late July.
Bobby5280:
I still can't tell what the OTA is going to do with the existing Walters Toll Plaza. Are they going to at least remove the toll booth structures out from underneath the OK-5 bridge overhead? I worry the end result of that re-tooled "cash-less" I-44 exit is still going to be a speed zone where every motorist has to slow down to something like 30mph to pass through that outdated, dilapidated interchange.
Really that whole OK-5/I-44 exit needs to be fully rebuilt. A new OK-5 bridge over I-44 is very badly needed; the existing one is in terrible shape. And those hour glass shaped exit ramps need to be rebuilt in a normal diamond configuration. The OTA has had plans to do that, but they keep "kicking the can" years down the road into the future. This freaking old-ass exit isn't even in the ACCESS Oklahoma 15 year plan. They'll build 4 new I-44 exits between Lawton and Newcastle, but they can't fix that really old, existing Walters exit? C'mon man.
Great Lakes Roads:
--- Quote from: Bobby5280 on June 14, 2022, 11:46:29 PM ---I still can't tell what the OTA is going to do with the existing Walters Toll Plaza. Are they going to at least remove the toll booth structures out from underneath the OK-5 bridge overhead? I worry the end result of that re-tooled "cash-less" I-44 exit is still going to be a speed zone where every motorist has to slow down to something like 30mph to pass through that outdated, dilapidated interchange.
Really that whole OK-5/I-44 exit needs to be fully rebuilt. A new OK-5 bridge over I-44 is very badly needed; the existing one is in terrible shape. And those hour glass shaped exit ramps need to be rebuilt in a normal diamond configuration. The OTA has had plans to do that, but they keep "kicking the can" years down the road into the future. This freaking old-ass exit isn't even in the ACCESS Oklahoma 15 year plan. They'll build 4 new I-44 exits between Lawton and Newcastle, but they can't fix that really old, existing Walters exit? C'mon man.
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From what I've seen in the plans, the Walters Toll Plaza will be completely removed, and the area underneath the bridge will be completely reconstructed. The OTA is (I think personally) doing a half-assed attempt on redoing the Walters exit as it is not too busy of an exit. They are also going to rehab the bridge structure over I-44 at that exit (and that's me actually reading through the plans a few times).
--- Quote from: Great Lakes Roads on June 14, 2022, 03:51:24 PM ---Looking at the plans for the cashless tolling conversion of the H.E. Bailey Turnpike (I-44), here's what I gathered:
-At the Walters exit (Exit 20), traffic exiting to OK 5 and merging onto I-44 will have its own "CD Lane". The entering traffic will yield to the exiting traffic.
-The toll gantries at exit 20 will be about .4 miles south and about .8 miles north.
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(Yes, I did look over the plans before typing that out)
Oh, and they are going to do the same thing to the Cimarron Turnpike at exit 15 (US 177) and exit 48 (OK 99).
Plutonic Panda:
From KFOR:
--- Quote ---June 21: Chickasha, Newcastle and SH-4/H.E. Bailey spur near Blanchard toll plazas will become cashless.
The Newcastle and SH-4/H.E. Bailey spur toll plazas will be narrowed to one lane with reduced speeds through fall 2022 as crews remove existing toll plaza and equipment from the roadway.
This cashless tolling work zone is separate from the ongoing pavement rehabilitation taking place on the turnpike.
Early July: Ramps at US-277 in Elgin, US-62 in Chickasha, SH-4/H.E. Bailey Spur near Bridge Creek, and SH-76 on the H.E. Bailey Spur near Blanchard will become cashless.
Late July: The Walters toll plaza and its ramps at SH-5 between Lawton and the Texas state line will become cashless.
Organizers say PlatePay cameras will photograph a vehicle’s license plate, which allows the Oklahoma Turnpike Authority to send a bill to the owner.
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- https://kfor.com/news/local/h-e-bailey-turnpike-to-go-cashless/?utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=facebook.com&fbclid=IwAR2doqqBqHZNBrpp3Z16XfuO_bULshvzbF5Lwf2IXylVsS5Cb-7aMN185k0
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