Quote Originally Posted by bombermwc View Post
Well that's good to hear. Those small bridges were cheap to build way back, but don't help for future construction. I just hope that they put a little better thought into how they are constructed, for future expansion ability. Maybe it wont ever be 4 lanes, but who knows....maybe we want a rail line down the middle one day???? Just saying, we shouldn't build the new stuff with such small space tolerances.

For Will Rogers, do you think that the traffic on that side warrants that compared to say HE Baily? I just haven't noticed that once you pass Claremore, that the Will Rogers has just that much traffic. Maybe I was just at the wrong times of day though???
The plan currently is only to widen the Will Rogers to Claremore where traffic counts are 28k-31k. But even beyond that section Will Rogers is much busier. From Claremore to Joplin traffic counts range from a low of 19k to a high of 22k. The overall high for the Bailey is 22k at Chickasha, which is close to the low for entire Will Rogers. The Bailey section from Chickasha to Lawton only sees 13k cars and south of Lawton only 7k.

https://oklahoma.gov/content/dam/ok/...Rogers_Web.pdf
https://oklahoma.gov/content/dam/ok/...Bailey_Web.pdf

The Will Rogers isn't all that much lower than the Turner except near Sapulpa.
https://oklahoma.gov/content/dam/ok/...Turner_Web.pdf