Oklahoma City Metro Highways | Small projects and construction

[Bobby5280]

Might there be a future need to upgrade the I-40/I-240 interchange (located just a couple of miles north of Moore, OK) with a five-level stack?

It's currently in the process of being upgraded, but it doesn't have quite that many levels because ODOT is cheap.

Don't you guys mean the I-240/I-35 interchange? Work is (finally) underway on that one. But, yeah, it's going to be a partial cloverleaf interchange. The design will be a little different from the parclo at I-44/I-235/Broadway Extension. Still it will have two clover loops and two flyovers.

I wish ODOT could do something about the configuration where I-44 runs into I-240. The WB I-240 clover ramp to WB I-44 just sucks. It's a very tight 25mph loop. What makes it really bad it the right feeder lane leading to it is really long. Anyone not familiar with the interchange might get fooled by that, thinking they can keep cruising on at normal speeds. When they reach the actual exit ramp they're slamming the brakes. It's easy to spot ruts off the left side of the loop ramp where motorists were going too fast to stay on the ramp.

The existing I-40/I-44 interchange is also very lousy for all the traffic conflicts its ramp design causes. I'm usually driving thru on I-44, staying in one of the two middle lanes. I'll often get cut-off by idiots using the outboard lanes. They bully their way into the I-44 lanes at the last second. That's thanks in part to the left exit and right exit ramps being built so close together. A modern four-level stack design would have all exiting traffic shift to the right. The left/right Y split would happen on the exit ramp, not in the freaking main lanes of the Interstate.

The I-40/I-44 interchange is also old as hell.

[jdingus]

Northwest Expressway was once called Northwest Highway.

If you go out to County Line and NW Expressway you will see an old sign on a traffic signal saying Northwest Highway.

I have always called it Northwest Highway. I believe in the early 90s it changed to expressway

[jdingus]

Also is anyone going to call ODOT and ask why the signs haven't been put up?

[Bobby5280]

I'm not going to call. The more I think about it the more I prefer the routes being left un-signed.

[Scott5114]

Northwest Expressway was once called Northwest Highway.

If you go out to County Line and NW Expressway you will see an old sign on a traffic signal saying Northwest Highway.

Not saying that you're wrong, but I would only trust a City of OKC sign as far as I could throw it.