OKC Boulevard

[David]

What a ridiculous waste of money. Just wait on the U-Haul situation to change and then push the street through straight. The current status quo is fine.

Instead we're going to lock ourselves into a intersection in the wrong place, probably for good.

[HangryHippo]

What a ridiculous waste of money. Just wait on the U-Haul situation to change and then push the street through straight. The current status quo is fine.

Instead we're going to lock ourselves into a intersection in the wrong place, probably for good.

Just a classic example of this city's cheapness and locking themselves into ****ty positions.

[jccouger]

So are they going to re-curb the Oklahoma Ave intersection now? Or do we get nice crusty concrete barriers to sit idle along there for the next decade?

I honestly hope they just put up concrete barriers so eventually they can use this intersection. I know it will look bad, but at least it won't be a waste of money down the road if Uhaul ever decides to give way.

[kukblue1]

whats wrong with it is now? How many people are actually using it?

[Pete]

The worst thing about this is moving the intersection to the far west end of the lumberyard / coop site on the south side of the boulevard.

It's the only way in and out of there and I can already hear them, "We need public incentives due to bad ingress and egress".

[Anonymous.]

whats wrong with it is now? How many people are actually using it?

Hardly anyone is using this entire east side of the Boulevard, let alone this Bricktown intersection.

[BoulderSooner]

The worst thing about this is moving the intersection to the far west end of the lumberyard / coop site on the south side of the boulevard.

It's the only way in and out of there and I can already hear them, "We need public incentives due to bad ingress and egress".

this really is the worst possible outcome

[OkiePoke]

Any word on when the lights will be working on the West end?

[Pete]

There was a massive wreck at the Klein intersection just after lunch.

Front of one car was completely torn off, firetruck on scene, the entire boulevard was closed.


I simply can't get my mind around how public officials allow crazy dangerous conditions like these.

[Ross MacLochness]

because they either don't care and/or are so fully entrenched in the bureaucracy that they are totally powerless or unwilling to speak up. Where's @codylusnia when you need him haha. Twitter outrage seems to be one of the more effective tactics as much as I hate it.

[jerrywall]

There was a massive wreck at the Klein intersection just after lunch.

Front of one card was completely torn off, firetruck on scene, the entire boulevard was closed.


I simply can't my mind around how public officials allow crazy dangerous conditions like these.

The intersections might get safer, if the road was actually designed like a 25-35 MPH road. Remove a lane (put in protected bike lanes) on both sides, narrow the lanes, and better rework some of the intersections. Right now the whole road drives like a highway trying to be a city road (or vice versa).

[CloudDeckMedia]

There was a massive wreck at the Klein intersection just after lunch.

Front of one car was completely torn off, firetruck on scene, the entire boulevard was closed.


I simply can't get my mind around how public officials allow crazy dangerous conditions like these.

Has ODOT transferred authority to the City of OKC yet?

[Roger S]

There was a massive wreck at the Klein intersection just after lunch.

Front of one car was completely torn off, firetruck on scene, the entire boulevard was closed.


I simply can't get my mind around how public officials allow crazy dangerous conditions like these.

I saw that wreck too..... My guess would be that speeding had more to do with the severity, and cause, of that wreck than public officials ignoring conditions. More often than not I have people flying by me like I'm sitting still through there when I'm doing the speed limit.

[Roger S]

The intersections might get safer, if the road was actually designed like a 25-35 MPH road. Remove a lane (put in protected bike lanes) on both sides, narrow the lanes, and better rework some of the intersections. Right now the whole road drives like a highway trying to be a city road (or vice versa).

Yeah... That worked pretty well on Walker... Still see people driving 10+ MPH over the speed limit with the bike lanes and ongoing construction...... Maybe time to reconsider consequences for traffic violations instead of spending a lot of money to reconfigure roads.

[LakeEffect]

Yeah... That worked pretty well on Walker... Still see people driving 10+ MPH over the speed limit with the bike lanes and ongoing construction...... Maybe time to reconsider consequences for traffic violations instead of spending a lot of money to reconfigure roads.

I don't think that's it either. The Walker improvements are just paint... need more physical constraints (curbs, bump outs, barriers, etc.) that mentally force people to go slower. A line just doesn't do much, unfortunately.

[jn1780]

What's crazy about Klein, is that it fell through the cracks or something after the redesign of the section between Klein and Walker. No one thought "Hey!, what should happen at this intersection, should we block it off or put a traffic signal here?" I guess they thought people were going to stop using it, even though its the only way to access Blvd from that part of town.

Now the city is trying to fast track a traffic signal there.

[jerrywall]

Yeah... That worked pretty well on Walker... Still see people driving 10+ MPH over the speed limit with the bike lanes and ongoing construction...... Maybe time to reconsider consequences for traffic violations instead of spending a lot of money to reconfigure roads.

Why not both? No solution is 100%, but good road design is important too, and roads should be designed/configured to the speed that cars are expected to drive.

[Roger S]

Why not both? No solution is 100%, but good road design is important too, and roads should be designed/configured to the speed that cars are expected to drive.

Only too many drivers these days don't take design/configuration into account. Speed limits and stop lights/signs are too often considered inconveniences to drivers. I've almost been mowed down in a crosswalk a couple of times crossing Western between 36th and 50th by people doing well above 25 MPH through there.

Klein would benefit from stop lights but I'd wager most of the wrecks that have happened there could have been avoided if drivers were responsible enough to obey the traffic laws too.

[shawnw]

Has ODOT transferred authority to the City of OKC yet?

At the OK Bike Summit on 10/26 there was a speaker from ODOT and I asked about the boulevard. She said something to the effect of "that's a city street now so I can't speak to that". I pushed back about that and she was like there was a ceremony, etc etc etc, not our road.

[Jeepnokc]

I don't understand the no left turn at Reno when going eastbound. I see people either ignoring it daily or driving past it and then having to turn back north on the smaller streets to access it.

[rezman]

What a ridiculous waste of money. Just wait on the U-Haul situation to change and then push the street through straight. The current status quo is fine.

Instead we're going to lock ourselves into a intersection in the wrong place, probably for good.

The U-Haul situation is done and over with. They're not going anywhere.

[David]

The U-Haul situation is done and over with. They're not going anywhere.

Anything can change with enough time.

[Quicker]

Anything can change with enough time.

No, It’s all about $$$$$$$... it’s a highly visible, great location that they bought dirt cheap...there’s no reason that time would have anything to do with it...

The longer they hang onto it, the more it’s going to be worth

[SEMIweather]

Yeah I'd be surprised to see U-Haul leaving that spot anytime soon. I just don't think this change in the intersection is an improvement in any way. Certainly not enough to justify spending $1.4 million to relocate it lol

[5alive]

This ^^^