Restore T.R.U.S.T.

Tulsa World
By GAVIN OFF World Data Editor
Published: 6/15/20112:29 AM
Last Modified: 6/15/20115:40 AM

For the next two years, the roughly 60,000 motorists who travel the southwest corridor of the Inner Dispersal Loop each day will need to find a detour or patience.

In preparation for the $64 million project that will replace the westbound Interstate 244 bridge over the Arkansas River with a double-decker, multi-modal span, officials with the Oklahoma Department of Transportation have closed several area ramps.

The closed ramps are:

• The westbound U.S. 64 off-ramp to eastbound I-244

• The southbound U.S. 75 off-ramp to westbound I-244

• The Seventh Street on-ramp to westbound I-244

To avoid those closures, ODOT is detouring traffic counterclockwise along the IDL. Kenna Mitchell, department spokeswoman, said drivers leaving downtown could enter the loop's east leg and proceed north or enter the loop's north leg and proceed east to avoid construction.

Mitchell said that ODOT does not detour motorists onto city streets... FULL ARTICLE