Tulsa Traffic Sucks!

[_CY_]

we've had massive construction projects in Tulsa before... but this is absolutely the worst.

even a moron would know if you shut down one major artery, folks will head for the nearest other major artery to get through.

but no.... these morons will start construction projects for say four major roads all parallel to each other. so there's NO way to avoid bottlenecks.

been going on too long...The Mayor has got to receive blame for this.

 

[okie98]

When you are right, you are right!

 

[ConstitutionCowboy]

Ever been to Boston?

Woody

 

[redmax51]

Ever been to Boston?

Woody

It's much bigger(620,535 ),almost twice the size as Tulsa and much older also.I would expect it,as well as other heavily populated metro areas, to have problems.

 

[redmax51]

we've had massive construction projects in Tulsa before... but this is absolutely the worst.

even a moron would know if you shut down one major artery, folks will head for the nearest other major artery to get through.

but no.... these morons will start construction projects for say four major roads all parallel to each other. so there's NO way to avoid bottlenecks.

been going on too long...The Mayor has got to receive blame for this.

I've been driving here since 1967 and there has never been a time when there wasn't major road construction/repair going on.The big problem is when they do repair a stretch of road they do it half a$$ and they are back repairing the same stretch in just a few years.Oklahoma does not know or is too cheap to build roads right.Do it right the first time and they would be money ahead.

 

[Neil]

Does anyone here have any (real/actual/serious) insight as to why the road construction situation in Tulsa is so awful? I have wracked my brain and can't imagine any situation that would permit so many crippling construction projects to be allowed in one city at any given time.

 

[GlocksInMySocks]

ha, if you think tulsa's bad, try dallas or houston.

 

[pinkhamr]

Just move to Altus .... the longest is a one stoplight wait .....

 

[AKguy1985]

yep road construction sucks

 

[dak]

I've been driving here since 1967 and there has never been a time when there wasn't major road construction/repair going on.The big problem is when they do repair a stretch of road they do it half a$$ and they are back repairing the same stretch in just a few years.Oklahoma does not know or is too cheap to build roads right.Do it right the first time and they would be money ahead.

Yeah, if they learned to build the roads right in the first place we wouldn't have this problem. They can't even properly repair the problems... Tulsa's way of fixing a pot hole is to throw a shovel full of asphalt into the hole and let cars drive over it. In many other states they would cut out that section and repair it properly instead of refilling the hole that keeps getting bigger and bigger every time the patch wears out.