Welcome To Case's Column
Let me say a big welcome to all of you for joining me here. I'm going to call these blog meetings Case's Column. I wanted to use "Corner", but that was already taken.
Since 2008, it's been a real privilege to come on here and share some of my life with you, and it's a big world where we live.
In these blogs, I'll just speak whatever is on my mind, but we will be playing within the rules here. I may pick a particular topic, point out an event, or shoot the breeze. I'm a little bit of an essayist at times, so I'll just speak what's on my mind, and I might tell a story or two. Or, I might spew out an opinion or three. There will be some serious moments, some tender, some poignant, but there will also be those moments that you'll just bust out laughing. But, hopefully, everything will be in good fun here. And, of course, there's a place below for your comments and thoughts as we go along here. So feel free to join me for the ride -- I sure as heck hope I'm doing this right and not making any mistakes.
Thanks for taking your time in reading Case's Column. Hopefully, you'll enjoy being entertained by it as much as I've enjoyed putting these writings together. And thanks for the time you spend in City-Data.com, where it's great to be alive!
Regards,
case44
Let me say a big welcome to all of you for joining me here. I'm going to call these blog meetings Case's Column. I wanted to use "Corner", but that was already taken.
Since 2008, it's been a real privilege to come on here and share some of my life with you, and it's a big world where we live.In these blogs, I'll just speak whatever is on my mind, but we will be playing within the rules here. I may pick a particular topic, point out an event, or shoot the breeze. I'm a little bit of an essayist at times, so I'll just speak what's on my mind, and I might tell a story or two. Or, I might spew out an opinion or three. There will be some serious moments, some tender, some poignant, but there will also be those moments that you'll just bust out laughing. But, hopefully, everything will be in good fun here. And, of course, there's a place below for your comments and thoughts as we go along here. So feel free to join me for the ride -- I sure as heck hope I'm doing this right and not making any mistakes.
Thanks for taking your time in reading Case's Column. Hopefully, you'll enjoy being entertained by it as much as I've enjoyed putting these writings together. And thanks for the time you spend in City-Data.com, where it's great to be alive!
Regards,
case44
Oklahoma Needs To Fix A Quirk In The Interstate System
Posted 10-26-2020 at 08:18 PM by case44
I've pointed out in an earlier blog post about Interstate 49 in Arkansas having a quirk in their mile marker inventory and how that needed to be rectified. Well, get ready for a humdinger in neighboring Oklahoma, because state officials need to unwrinkle a disjointed interstate.
The road does go all the way through, folks, but that's not the issue here. The problem is another numbering and priority discrepancy. You'll find it where three converging highways, a turnpike, and a supposed other turnpike gather together. That hiccup occurs on Interstate 44 just east of Tulsa. I'm hoping that the Oklahoma Department of Transportation and the Oklahoma Turnpike Authority have both, at least, looked into this. You see, Interstate 44 has two mile marker 35s on it. That's right, two. The first one you encounter, should anyone drive the length of the highway through the state, is where it should be, at that is near Lawton. That's where the mile marker 35 is and will remain, as it is in proper sequence with the numbering.
And the other one?
Well, it is located in a segment north of U.S. Highway 412 and a spot a couple of miles north of it. It is around the Pine Street interchange at I-44. The freeway had been redesigned a few years ago, and the Creek Turnpike was extended to meet the old alignment, but the stretch from that point westward to the current Oklahoma Highway 66 was abandoned in the realignment. They ought to just truncate the Creek Turnpike at U.S. 412 and I-44 and just create a new western terminus of the Will Rogers Turnpike at the interchange. Then all the state needs to do is update the mile markers to be consistent with I-44, which, by that point, is in the two-hundreds.
Come on, Okies. A little common sense never hurt anyone. Get rid of that silly quirk.
The road does go all the way through, folks, but that's not the issue here. The problem is another numbering and priority discrepancy. You'll find it where three converging highways, a turnpike, and a supposed other turnpike gather together. That hiccup occurs on Interstate 44 just east of Tulsa. I'm hoping that the Oklahoma Department of Transportation and the Oklahoma Turnpike Authority have both, at least, looked into this. You see, Interstate 44 has two mile marker 35s on it. That's right, two. The first one you encounter, should anyone drive the length of the highway through the state, is where it should be, at that is near Lawton. That's where the mile marker 35 is and will remain, as it is in proper sequence with the numbering.
And the other one?
Well, it is located in a segment north of U.S. Highway 412 and a spot a couple of miles north of it. It is around the Pine Street interchange at I-44. The freeway had been redesigned a few years ago, and the Creek Turnpike was extended to meet the old alignment, but the stretch from that point westward to the current Oklahoma Highway 66 was abandoned in the realignment. They ought to just truncate the Creek Turnpike at U.S. 412 and I-44 and just create a new western terminus of the Will Rogers Turnpike at the interchange. Then all the state needs to do is update the mile markers to be consistent with I-44, which, by that point, is in the two-hundreds.
Come on, Okies. A little common sense never hurt anyone. Get rid of that silly quirk.
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