WHERE DOES OKLAHOMA’S ROAD QUALITY RANK NATIONALLY?

K-Law 101

By Alexander Milanese

April 26, 2023 When it comes to roads and highways across the state, Oklahoma drivers seem to never run out of things to complain about. "Why is there so much construction?" "Why are there so many patches?" "They just redid this road a few years ago?" My personal common complaint is traffic flow. I'll never understand how three lanes of traffic can manage to match speeds 15 MPH slower than the posted limit... but I usually only notice it when I'm in a hurry. That's life. In my part of the state (SWOK-Lawton) people constantly complain about our horrific city street and I-44. While city street will be an ongoing municipal issue, state crews just wrapped up a project to smooth out the bouncy nature of the turnpike. For a solid year, it was nothing but awful driving for miles on end, but the end result has mostly silenced drivers on the matter, and that's sort of been the trend in Oklahoma for the last twenty-ish years.

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