Originally Posted by
Teo9969
To comment on everything up thread, I know it can be problematic to create too much capacity, but if there's one place to plan for the future, it's interstate interchanges. At least regrade and redrain for additional lanes to be added 20+years out, even if you're not pouring concrete for another 20 years. There's got to be a better way to plan for things than providing just enough for now only to have to screw traffic up again at a major interchange 20-30 years later. The collective loss of time to the city because of traffic at that junction (and others) is a major social and economic issue. We need to think about what happens if OKC has an Austin/Seattle style boom sometime in the next 30 years and have the foresight to spend a little bit of extra money and time now to save us what will be a lot more money and a lot more time between now and 2050.
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