Sherwood Development has begun a $42 million interchange undertaking at I-44 and SH 66 in Catoosa, Okla. The undertaking objectives to strengthen site visitors waft, upload lanes, and relocate exits to give a boost to protection and potency. Final touch is predicted in summer time 2026, coinciding with the Path 66 Centennial. Drivers are urged to make use of warning because of ongoing lane closures and narrowed widths.
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A greater than $42 million interchange development undertaking at Interstate 44 and State Freeway 66 in Catoosa, Okla., started on Dec. 2, 2024.
The Oklahoma Transportation Fee awarded the undertaking to Sherwood Development in August 2024. Final touch is predicted in summer time 2026 throughout the Path 66 Centennial.
The undertaking will upload lanes and straighten the curve on westbound I-44 between the U.S. 412/Will Rogers/Creek Turnpike interchange and State Freeway-167/193rd East Road, in addition to relocate the present eastbound I-44 go out to SH 66 to a extra same old right-hand go out with a brand new flyover ramp. This flyover additionally will give 193rd E. Road site visitors direct get admission to to SH 66.
A secure turnaround at 193rd E. Road additionally will permit SH 66 site visitors to get admission to eastbound I-44 and eastbound U.S.-412.
Drivers started seeing lane closures on east and westbound I-44, SH 66 and the I-44/Will Rogers Turnpike ramp to westbound I-44 throughout the week of Dec. 2. Lanes additionally shall be narrowed in width. Two lanes of site visitors on I-44 shall be maintained in each instructions at top shuttle instances. Drivers are steered to make use of further warning within the paintings zone.
Just lately, Sherwood Development finished the Turner Turnpike I-44/ SH 66 Interchange Amendment, a $35 million undertaking on the jap finish of the Turner Turnpike in southwest Tulsa at what was once previously known as the “Tulsa Gate.”
The paintings concerned getting rid of the left lane go out from WB I-44 to SH 66, widening I-44 to 6 lanes and making a two-lane, right-side go out for WB SH-66 together with a brand new bridge taking the ones lanes over the turnpike. Different paintings incorporated a quarter-mile-long extension of Skelly Pressure to South 63rd West Road and a brand new boulevard connection to SH 66 to give a boost to protection on the interchange.
