View Full Version : What's happening I-35?



okcray
01-16-2012, 12:16 PM
What's going on I-35 by ne 23rd st from about 50th? I think???

SSEiYah
01-16-2012, 12:26 PM
Looked like maybe running telecom cable or maybe replacing power lines or something. Not sure. Median is all dug up.

okcray
01-16-2012, 12:31 PM
Oh I thought they were maybe making it 6 lanes. It looks like there's enough room though.

jn1780
01-16-2012, 02:51 PM
Sounds like a cable barrier being put up.

ctchandler
01-16-2012, 03:42 PM
jn,
I would agree that it's a cable barrier.
C. T.

Sounds like a cable barrier being put up.

Snowman
01-16-2012, 03:51 PM
Oh I thought they were maybe making it 6 lanes. It looks like there's enough room though.

The only significant work i35 has on schedule in that area on it's lanes is to be resurfaced starting around 2017 but no significant widening is in that plan.

jn1780
01-16-2012, 05:17 PM
Yes, it is definitively a new cable barrier.

OKCisOK4me
01-16-2012, 06:01 PM
I-35 hollaring back here, how you doing, okcray?!

jonno
01-16-2012, 07:58 PM
I-35 hollaring back here, how you doing, okcray?!

Nice! This is really quality work right here.

OKCisOK4me
01-16-2012, 09:40 PM
Nice! This is really quality work right here.

I couldn't help myself at the time ;-)

oneforone
01-17-2012, 12:39 AM
Nothing but, Po Folks live in that area. No rich men in million dollar homes. So no work to improve it will ever be done. Lake Hefner Parkway will see additional lanes before the stretch of I-35 between 10th and I-44 is updated to handle today's traffic flow. I hate that area because there is always somebody off in dreamland holding up traffic or some wannabe traffic enforcer keeping everybody moving no faster then 55 MPH.

Snowman
01-17-2012, 01:24 AM
Nothing but, Po Folks live in that area. No rich men in million dollar homes. So no work to improve it will ever be done. Lake Hefner Parkway will see additional lanes before the stretch of I-35 between 10th and I-44 is updated to handle today's traffic flow. I hate that area because there is always somebody off in dreamland holding up traffic or some wannabe traffic enforcer keeping everybody moving no faster then 55 MPH.

That is contrary to long term plans of ODOT and also ignores that their are far less people along that road than Lake Hefner parkway, i44 and i235. I don't drive it daily anymore but it was not as bad as i235 or some other junctures around town at jamming during rush hours.

Thunder
01-17-2012, 02:23 AM
KOCO announced that a man from Guthrie were killed.

OKCisOK4me
01-17-2012, 08:43 AM
koco announced that a man from guthrie were killed.

r a n d o m ! ! !

Thunder
01-17-2012, 08:56 AM
r a n d o m ! ! !

http://wap.koco.com/wap/news/text.jsp?sid=235&nid=4002018188&cid=4643&scid=-1&ith=4&title=Local+News&headtitle=Local+News

There the news story. The poster probably saw the repairs on the barrier after the crash.

OKCisOK4me
01-17-2012, 09:32 AM
http://wap.koco.com/wap/news/text.jsp?sid=235&nid=4002018188&cid=4643&scid=-1&ith=4&title=Local+News&headtitle=Local+News

There the news story. The poster probably saw the repairs on the barrier after the crash.

Ok, except that if you read the first post in the thread, the OP was talking about I-35 between I-44 and I-40. You're talking about a wreck that was way up on I-35 at Waterloo Road which is 15 miles out of the discussion.

That's like me saying, "a skunk crossed I-35 in Purcell earlier".

Richard at Remax
01-17-2012, 10:35 AM
it should be widened to extend the 6 lanes from 23rd to I-44

Just the facts
01-17-2012, 11:51 AM
Is there significant bumper to bumper congestion on this stretch of I-35? I have only driven it a few times but I don't remember any traffic problems.

windowphobe
01-17-2012, 06:07 PM
I drive it every day; there's not often a problem, and if there is, it's usually because somebody did something stupid. (Then again, there's something stupid built into the northbound lanes: the left lane veers off to I-44, and there's no warning until you're practically on top of it.)

Just the facts
01-17-2012, 06:25 PM
I drive it every day; there's not often a problem, and if there is, it's usually because somebody did something stupid. (Then again, there's something stupid built into the northbound lanes: the left lane veers off to I-44, and there's no warning until you're practically on top of it.)

That is what I thought. Thanks for validating.

semisimple
01-17-2012, 07:38 PM
Is there significant bumper to bumper congestion on this stretch of I-35? I have only driven it a few times but I don't remember any traffic problems.

There isn't a single stretch of highway in the entire state of Oklahoma that has severe bumper-to-bumper congestion. Not one.

Just the facts
01-17-2012, 08:14 PM
There isn't a single stretch of highway in the entire state of Oklahoma that has severe bumper-to-bumper congestion. Not one.

Define severe.

okcray
01-17-2012, 10:16 PM
Nothing but, Po Folks live in that area. No rich men in million dollar homes. So no work to improve it will ever be done. Lake Hefner Parkway will see additional lanes before the stretch of I-35 between 10th and I-44 is updated to handle today's traffic flow. I hate that area because there is always somebody off in dreamland holding up traffic or some wannabe traffic enforcer keeping everybody moving no faster then 55 MPH.

I went to a friends house Over there once by the braums in that area by lake alums it was nice but I see what youre saying.

UncleCyrus
01-23-2012, 10:41 PM
Nothing but, Po Folks live in that area. No rich men in million dollar homes.

Well, living east of I-35, and north of NE 36th, it seems to me that you have no idea about this area. No, they are not million-dollar homes, but they aren't "po folks" either. Please do not continue to perpetuate the myth that just because there is a NE in front of the street name it is automatically ghetto.

MDot
01-23-2012, 11:38 PM
Well boys and girls, today we learned that demographic stereotyping is a big no no. Tomorrow we will learn why animals don't belong in the zoo.

oneforone
01-24-2012, 05:41 AM
Well, living east of I-35, and north of NE 36th, it seems to me that you have no idea about this area. No, they are not million-dollar homes, but they aren't "po folks" either. Please do not continue to perpetuate the myth that just because there is a NE in front of the street name it is automatically ghetto.

Wow! I love it when Mr. Know It All rears his big ugly head. I'm was being facetious... I'm very familiar with that area. I drive it daily. I live in Midwest City. I used to do home deliveries all over NE OKC. I know it's like every other area of town. It has it's good and bad. So you can relax. While your at go to Walmart and buy a sense of humor. You will find it in the toy aisle with the shape discovery boxes. Jeeze Louise...

UncleCyrus
01-26-2012, 03:28 AM
I apologize, I never claimed to be Mr. Know It All. I must have misread the intent of your comment. But my reaction does come from much personal experience dealing with people that live in other parts of the city that have never been in the area other than passing through on 35 and usually make negative remarks about it. A few times, I have given driving tours to longtime residents who are surprised at some of the nice neighborhoods they never knew about in NE OKC.

OKCisOK4me
01-26-2012, 02:57 PM
Wow! I love it when Mr. Know It All rears his big ugly head. I'm was being facetious... I'm very familiar with that area. I drive it daily. I live in Midwest City. I used to do home deliveries all over NE OKC. I know it's like every other area of town. It has it's good and bad. So you can relax. While your at go to Walmart and buy a sense of humor. You will find it in the toy aisle with the shape discovery boxes. Jeeze Louise...

Did someone miss their morning coffee break at Starbucks? lol

mrktguy29
01-28-2012, 02:34 AM
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