Inola Lock & Dam Road reduced to one lane during construction
The Claremore Daily Progress
BY KAYLEIGH THESENVITZ
Jul 9, 2019
The Lock & Dam Road project is nearing completion, but the final stage is an inconvenience for many travelers.
South 4200 Road is currently down to a one-way, southbound road from Highway 412 to east 590 Road while the Oklahoma Department of Transportation widens, strengthens and resurfaces the road for long-term semi-truck travel.
Inola Mayor Larry Grigg said completion could take somewhere between two to three months.
“If you’re going to the daycare to pick up your children, you’ll have to come off 412,” Grigg said, admitting the inherent danger in that detour. “If you are coming off 88, you have to cross two lanes of traffic to get to that left turn median, and it’s kind of like coming out of the pits at a big race.”
“It is an inconvenience for some people, because when you are coming up the Lock & Dam Road and you get to that junction to get to 412, if you are going to Tulsa you’ll have to go left and if you are going to Claremore you’ll have to go right,” Grigg said... FULL ARTICLE
Posted on Tue, July 9, 2019
by John Cox