Business Loop I-40 - Oklahoma City
Proposed Business Route
Oklahoma City Boulevard is an at-grade roadway built along the corridor of the former I-40 Crosstown route south of Downtown Oklahoma City. It branches east from Exit 148 B and returns to I-40 at the exchange with Interstate 235.
Opened to traffic in 1966, the Crosstown route was over capacity and in need of repair when a $680 million project replaced it with a new ten lane alignment of I-40 to the south (ODOT, n.d.). The relocated eastbound lanes for I-40 opened on January 5, 2012, followed by the westbound lanes on February 19, 2012. Construction followed to both tear down the old viaduct and build the new Oklahoma City Boulevard. Work continued through early 2018 (OKC Talk, 2016),3and the boulevard was proposed to become Business Loop I-40 upon completion (okroads, 2012). However it appears that plans for the designation were dropped, as the route remains unposted as of 2022.