Business Loop I-70 - Oakley

Webmaster of Kansas Highways, Richie Kennedy recalled a business route for I-70 posted through Oakley on U.S. 83 south from Exit 70 to U.S. 40 east and Exit 76. This route was eventually eliminated, and disapproved by AASHTO on October 13, 1979.

The proposed route sent to AASHTO called for the I-70 business route to run in tandem with U.S. 83 south to the city center along the Union Pacific Railroad tracks to 8th Street east and Center Avenue south. U.S. 83 then dog legged southeast from Center Avenue along Front Street and Freeman Avenue to intersect U.S. 40, which had already bypassed the city along a four lane highway to the south. U.S. 83 was later realigned to bypass Oakley to the west.