Road Projects that do nothing (I-40 West -> I-44 East)

[hipsterdoofus]

Does anyone know what in the world is up with this? They just spend months adding a new lane that is only a couple hundred feet long, making people thing that they have a nice wide exit then immediately getting a lane-end sign. What a waste of money!

[metro]

Its not finished, they are widening I-44 and I-40 around that juntion and westbound as well on I-40

[hipsterdoofus]

Well I know that they are widering WB I-40, but I do not see any sign of them doing more work on I-44 past the ramp, plus there are 1 or possibly 2 bridges they would have to widen to really implement a full 2 lan exit. Don't get me wrong, I think that all junctions from an Interstate highway to another should be 2 lanes, but this just looks like a way to get traffic off I-40 and move the bottleneck onto the ramp.

[JOHNINSOKC]

I-40 is much improved from I-44 to MacArthur, although, I do agree that they should've done far more to the interchange. The whole Amarillo Junction shoud have been completlely rebuilt to handle future traffic.

[metro]

The juntion will be rebuilt in time, when the I-40 Relocation starts

[hipsterdoofus]

Will it? I-40 Relocation doesn't really have anythign to do with that junction though? Isn't only up to about agnew or so for the relocation? I would imagine they would do some resurfacing there.

In other news would be nice if there was page that ODOT had that was easily accessible that listed these projects. I know they post them WHEN they work on them, but if they KNOW that they are planned, would be nice to let us know, since we do pay for them.

[JOHNINSOKC]

I don't see why they wait until then to do it when they could've redone it now during the current construction.

[metro]

MONEY, we barely have a 6th of what the re-location is costing