I-44/US-75 Interchange Reconstruction(Tulsa)

[Plutonic Panda]

Did ODOT speed up? lol... outside of a handful of projects like this one it seems like all they are doing is pushing projects further and further back with every eight year plan they come out with.

[Bobby5280]

The first new flyover ramp of the I-44/US-75 interchange is now open.

[Stephane Dumas]

The first new flyover ramp of the I-44/US-75 interchange is now open.

Let's see if the nickname "Tulsa Stonehage" will stick for the name of the interchange.

[swake]

The first new flyover ramp of the I-44/US-75 interchange is now open.

It's a huge bridge and very tall, not as high as the five stacks in Dallas, but it's close. I'm betting it will unnerve a lot of drivers. This interchange is nothing like the "spaghetti" interchanges downtown that Tulsans are used to. The only local flyover remotely this height is at at the US-169/Creek Turnpike (I-644) interchange and this will carry far more traffic.

The Creek Turnpike is now approved as I-644, it's just waiting on the signs to be installed in the next couple of months.

Now ODOT needs to kill the cloverleafs and build full stacks at I-44/OK-51 and OK-51/US-169 and finish the partial stack at I-44/US-169.

[Bobby5280]

What's the going rate in dollars to fund construction of a full directional stack interchange in 2026? Half a billion? The interchange projects at I-44/US-75 in Tulsa or I-35/I-240 in Oklahoma City point to ODOT and the OK state government not being able to afford what TX DOT can build in Texas' big cities.