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Title: Stubs at I-44/OK 66 and I-235/US 77 in OKC
Post by: bugo on May 07, 2015, 01:20:52 AM
https://www.google.com/lochp?ll=35.529354,-97.513425&spn=0.004191,0.009624&t=h&z=17

See the ramp from EB 44 to SB 235? What is that little stub?

https://www.google.com/lochp?ll=35.524962,-97.513897&spn=0.004191,0.009624&t=h&z=17

What's up with that stub on the road that heads east from 235?
Title: Re: Stubs at I-44/OK 66 and I-235/US 77 in OKC
Post by: jakeroot on May 07, 2015, 01:28:21 AM
Perhaps long range plans call for the 44 East off-ramp to connect to Santa Fe via a flyover (hence the wide gap between the ramp from the 44 and the 77 southbound carriageway -- a new roadway would go there).
Title: Re: Stubs at I-44/OK 66 and I-235/US 77 in OKC
Post by: bugo on May 07, 2015, 02:04:42 AM
Here's some more stubs just to the north:

https://www.google.com/lochp?ll=35.533178,-97.513726&spn=0.004191,0.009624&t=k&z=17
Title: Re: Stubs at I-44/OK 66 and I-235/US 77 in OKC
Post by: Scott5114 on May 07, 2015, 06:21:09 AM
This imagery is rather far out of date. This interchange is currently under construction to eliminate some of the loop ramps (though not all of them). It already looks a lot different than that. I hardly ever have reason to get up that way, so I can't tell you exactly what is being done without looking it up.
Title: Re: Stubs at I-44/OK 66 and I-235/US 77 in OKC
Post by: bugo on May 07, 2015, 09:47:04 AM
For a bit of a laugh, look at the Bird's Eye view of I-44 at Lewis in Tulsa on Bing Maps. The Deathramp is still there.

https://www.bing.com/maps/#Y3A9cHhyaHlnNndic2dyJmx2bD0xNyZzdHk9byZxPXR1bHNh

Same with Mapquest. It also shows the businesses in between 51st Street (EB frontage road west of Lewis) and I-44. Those have been gone for several years.

http://mapq.st/1rq4QEn
Title: Re: Stubs at I-44/OK 66 and I-235/US 77 in OKC
Post by: okroads on May 08, 2015, 06:12:43 PM
Quote from: bugo on May 07, 2015, 01:20:52 AM
https://www.google.com/lochp?ll=35.529354,-97.513425&spn=0.004191,0.009624&t=h&z=17

See the ramp from EB 44 to SB 235? What is that little stub?


The left stub is for the future flyover ramp from I-44 EB to U.S. 77 NB. The right stub (going into 235 SB) is what's left of the former 44 EB to 235 SB ramp.

Quotehttps://www.google.com/lochp?ll=35.524962,-97.513897&spn=0.004191,0.009624&t=h&z=17

What's up with that stub on the road that heads east from 235?


This used to be the off-ramp from SB 235 to N. 50th St/Santa Fe. There was an overpass just to the west of the end of this stub that was torn down when the new ramp from 44 EB to 235 SB was built. There is no longer an exit from SB 235 to N. 50th St/Santa Fe.