South Yale @ Creek Turnpike New Traffic Problem

[Ward]

South Yale Ave at the Creek Turnpike was recently re-striped or painted, for traffic moving southbound. The City has incorrectly painted the road and it is causing more harm than good. Traffic has never been so backed up and it's causing accidents as we live in the area. The far right lane as you travel south was the normal lane to be in to proceed in that direction and the left lane was for traffic wishing to go East on the Creek Turnpike. The City re-striped and made the left lane the proper lane to be in to proceed southbound. The far right lane is the lane that you have to (merge) from to go south. This places twice the amount of cars in the left lane wishing to go south....you get the picture? Stop by at 5pm to experience it for yourself. It's a sad design flaw.    [!]

[Wilbur]

IMO...  they finally made sense of what the road should be.  In the past, you were in the left lane, then, all of a sudden, found yourself in a left-turn-only lane.  All of the new striping makes sense.

[sgrizzle]

I enjoy the new striping of the turn lanes on 71st they are doing this week. It has an arrow and the word "ONIY"

[Rowdy]

oniy?

[sgrizzle]

quote:Originally posted by Rowdy

oniy?

Yup

[Wilbur]

Perhaps the City is now accepting advertisements:

http://www.oniy.com.hk/

After all, got to pay for all that stuff somehow!  Remember, everyone is encouraged to think outside the box.

[restored2x]

I blame it on the illegals!

All of our city's woes are their fault!

ONIY - what language is that? If you come to this country - the least you can do is learn to paint the roads correctly. Sheeesh!

[Conan71]

Heh, funny you should mention the screwed up CT bridge at Yale.  I'm out there pretty often.  It is terribly confusing and I can't believe how bad the traffic back-ups have gotten since I moved away from that area four years ago.

I had lunch with a friend of mine a couple of weeks ago who works for the engineering firm that does most of Tulsa's street and right-of-way engineering.  I mentioned this very issue to him whilst we were eating.  He said the city did not follow the engineering company's recommendations and drawings for the lane alignments.

[sgrizzle]

ONIY is what you get when they forget to paint the horizontal line at the bottom of the L.