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The predecessor agency to ODOT was the Department of Highways, which began operations in 1911, four years after Oklahoma statehood. The Department of Highways, consisting of four employees, was given an initial budget of $3,700. [6] The state's first 29 numbered highways were commissioned on August 29, 1924. [7]
Many Oklahoma state highways have short spur routes connecting them to towns which lie off of the main route. Many times, these bear the same number as the parent highway, with a letter suffix. Some state highway spurs and loops from US highways have designations that are drawn from the parent US Highway designation.
On May 28, 2021, Oklahoma governor Kevin Stitt signed legislation designating a roughly 20-mile portion of U.S. 287 between Boise City and the Oklahoma-Texas border as the President Donald J. Trump Highway, effective as of November 1. [3]
Bicycle law in the United States is the law of the United States that regulates the use of bicycles.Although bicycle law is a relatively new specialty within the law, first appearing in the late 1980s, its roots date back to the 1880s and 1890s, when cyclists were using the courts to assert a legal right to use the roads.
Spanning across the central part of the state, SH-9 begins at the Texas state line west of Vinson, Oklahoma, and ends at the Arkansas state line near Fort Smith, Arkansas. State Highway 9 is a major highway around the Norman area. At 348.1 miles (560.2 km), [1] [2] [3] SH-9 is Oklahoma's second-longest state highway (second to State Highway 3).
I-40 near Oklahoma City: I-44 in Luther: 2024 [4] current Redesignation of Kickapoo Turnpike; will be extended to I-35 in the future I-344: 31.0: 49.9 I-240 in Oklahoma City: I-35/I-44 near Oklahoma City 2024 [4] current Redesignation of John Kilpatrick Turnpike: I-440 — — in Oklahoma City: I-35 in Oklahoma City — c. 1965
SH-33C was first shown on the Oklahoma state highway map in 1958. [25] At the time of the highway's designation, it was a gravel highway; by 1959, however, it had been paved. [ 26 ] The first revision of the state highway map to reflect the renumbering of SH-33 to US-412 was the 1989 edition; this was also the first to show SH-33C redesignated ...
SH-7 Spur was built by the Oklahoma Turnpike Authority (OTA) as the westernmost segment of the Chickasaw Turnpike, which opened on September 1, 1991. [11] It was transferred from OTA to ODOT on August 1, 2011, receiving the SH-7 Spur designation and becoming a free road. It was the first segment of turnpike in Oklahoma to be transferred to ODOT.