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| Topic | Constructing An Interstate Highway - Oklahoma City to Denver - The Proposed "I-33" |
| Content | In this day and age, where transportation is so critical to the success of numerous industries, it is imperative that key hubs and metro areas are linked adequately by both air and land.
While Oklahoma City has direct interstate highway connections to Dallas, Wichita/Kansas City, and Little Rock, there is no direct interstate highway connection to another key Midwestern metropolis - Denver.
I believe that the State of Oklahoma, in cooperation with the State of Kansas, the State of Colorado, and the U.S. Federal Government, should spearhead the idea of constructing an interstate highway that runs from Oklahoma City, through Northwest Oklahoma & Southwest Kansas, and into Southeast Colorado leading up to Denver. This artery will greatly benefit the agriculture, gas/mineral/oil, and trucking industries seeing as that they will no longer have to go west on I-40 to the 1-25 merger in Albuquerque, *or* head north to the I-70 merger in Central Kansas.
Perhaps the most beneficial, and unseen, aspect of this project would be the business that would come to Northwest Oklahoma, an area riddled with people clamoring for economic development. Many nationwide cities & towns that thrive on interstate business (i.e. Amarillo, Texas; and Cheyenne, Wyoming, to name a few) credit the interstate system for their economic success. Oklahoma could give counties like Dewey, Major, Woodward, Ellis, Harper, & Beaver counties much need commerce.
Linking Oklahoma City's commerical and tourism success with Denver is a win-win scenario. Establishing closer ties with the "Mile High City" can only be to our benefit. Since North-South interstate highways are numerically ordered in odd numbers, orderly from east to west, one idea is to name this proposed highway "Interstate 33," half the number of Oklahoma's famous "Route 66." How appropriate! -> Philip T. Johnson (Norman, OK) |
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