Screwy Roads

[thebigtamale]

Cast your votes for the screwiest roads in the OKC metro? Highway, city street, or county road. There's Hogback Rd. and Classen Blvd., which wind around in areas that are mostly a logical grid. Then there's 6-lane Shields Blvd. bridge in downtown OKC.

[Dubya61]

Grand. I'm to the point that I do a considerable amount of investigation before I ever proceed to a business with a Grand address.

[RadicalModerate]

Grand. I'm to the point that I do a considerable amount of investigation before I ever proceed to a business with a Grand address.

Did you intentionally omit the "Boulevard" part (after Grand)? =)

How about "Eastern"?
How many times does it change names between Point A and Point B?

[Oh GAWD the Smell!]

You guys have it all wrong.

Most infuriating is the collective randomness of the interstate service/frontage roads. You never know which are one way and which aren't.

[shawnw]

In addition to what's already mentioned:

Classen Drive/Ollie
Main/General Pershing
6th/Linwood/Virgina/Penn
Broadway/EK Gaylord
McGee/3rd
13th and 16th at Classen
Western 1-way between 16th and 18th
Memorial divided for turnpike and then not
7th between Harvey and Hudson
Exchange
Harrison
NE 10th/Simmons/8th
Lincoln at Reno
Broadway Place
Broadway between 20th and 22nd
Paseo Drive/Dewey
18th into Shartel

And that's just off the top of my head... we have no shortage of crazy streets...

[crimsoncrazy]

Council south of I-40 all the way to 44th.

[bombermwc]

Council south of I-40 all the way to 44th.

How is that screwy? Or are you referring to the weird light just south of I-40 for the truck stop/off ramp?

I-35 with it's weird job at I40 is not only annoying but a huge traffic issue on a daily basis. Whoever thought it was smart to make it jog east like that and not just connect the thing was an idiot.

[Jeepnokc]

South MacArthur past Newcastle Road. Instead of continuing south on what would appear to be MacArthur, ou have to turn left and jog over and then turn again onto MacArthur. The road where it continues becomes Regina Avenue.

[Martin]

South MacArthur past Newcastle Road. Instead of continuing south on what would appear to be MacArthur, ou have to turn left and jog over and then turn again onto MacArthur. The road where it continues becomes Regina Avenue.

that's because that is macarthur. after 1995, that part of macarthur was blocked off to the public and eventually rerouted to a new stretch of road that they named regina. if i remember right, the original intention was to name the reroute macarthur but for whatever reason that didn't materialize. -M

[Jeepnokc]

I understand but it is stupid and confusing to have a road do a ninety degree turn at a light when the road continues forward. I live at 104th and basically Regina but I always give directions for people to come in off I44 and SW 104th because it gets everyone lost the other way

[shawnw]

Can't believe I didn't mention MacArthur/Regina since I drive it to work everyday.

[Jim Kyle]

How about these crazy intersections: Nw 19 and NW 23; or NW 50 and NW 51? Both exist, the first being a 5-way at NW 23 and Meridian and the second being a block west of NW 50 and Portland...

[OKCDrummer77]

I was going to mention NW 19th, since that's my street. On the way up to 23rd, it crosses 20th, so it is possible to live at the corner of NW 19th & NW 20th,

[tomokc]

I was in London recently. It was NEVER an easy place to get around in!

[thebigtamale]

The "secret" Sooner Rd. on-ramp to the Turner Turnpike is a good one. I'm guessing it was to connect the turnpike to the proposed eastern bypass that never happened?

[windowphobe]

There's also a corner of NW 50th and 52nd. (52nd is northbound west of Barnes, and then turns to run parallel to Northwest Expressway up to Villa.)