Interstate 40: Shawnee to Oklahoma City ~ Oklahoma | Real Roads, Real Drives [Remastered] скачать в хорошем качестве

Interstate 40: Shawnee to Oklahoma City ~ Oklahoma | Real Roads, Real Drives [Remastered]

🚙 Drive America’s Highways for approximately 42 miles west along Interstate 40 from Shawnee to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma — transitioning from small-city crossroads into the heart of the state’s largest metro. This video documents a westbound drive along Interstate 40 from its junction with State Route 3 East in Shawnee to Council Road (Exit 142) on the west side of Oklahoma City. The footage was recorded in 2016, capturing this corridor before the Kickapoo Turnpike existed and before several later infrastructure changes reshaped traffic patterns east of Oklahoma City. As such, the drive offers a useful snapshot of central Oklahoma’s primary east–west artery during a transitional period. Departing Shawnee, Interstate 40 quickly sheds its small-city surroundings and enters a landscape defined by open land, frontage roads, and widely spaced interchanges. This stretch reflects the practical design priorities of the Interstate era: long sightlines, gentle curvature, and efficient movement across the Southern Plains. Development is present but restrained, reinforcing I-40’s role here as a through-route rather than a destination corridor. Moving west, the gradual approach toward Oklahoma City becomes evident. Interchanges increase in frequency, frontage roads grow more active, and commercial and industrial development becomes more consistent. In 2016, traffic entering the metro relied almost entirely on surface arterials and I-40 itself for east–west and north–south distribution. The absence of the Kickapoo Turnpike is noticeable in hindsight, as regional traffic had fewer bypass options around the eastern edge of the city. Closer to Oklahoma City, the highway adopts a more urban character, with warehouses, logistics facilities, and multi-lane interchanges reflecting the metro’s role as a regional transportation hub. The drive concludes near Council Road on the city’s west side, an area that continues to function as a major arterial gateway within the Oklahoma City network. While understated visually, this segment of Interstate 40 clearly illustrates how Oklahoma’s highway system functioned prior to recent expansions. It serves as a clean, uninterrupted record of a working Interstate corridor just before a major new turnpike altered long-distance and regional traffic flows. --- 🎵 Music: https://interstate411.us/music/i40-sh... Music from this video may be available for purchase at https://theopenroadcollective.com ------------- ❤ If you liked this video, please help us out and click the share button to share it with all your friends. 🦸‍♂️ Express Lane Members: YouTube Members @raytorvalds3699 @TBKS1 @good_88 @SamuelBrown731 @maximilianzwicker1340 @daltony2000 @kambound28 @MichaelTrexel-nz5gk @heatherjensen5421 Interstate411.us Members @pauljardis942 @lukehawk2 ------------- 📹 Subscribe here (it's free!) https://tinyurl.com/y6fuhhta ✉ Get notified by email of new videos: https://tinyurl.com/i411news 💵 Join the Express Lane to get access to 4K/Real-Time videos, Ad-Free videos, and more! ⇨ Join at Interstate411.us: https://tinyurl.com/i411express ⇨ Join at YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/i411ytjoin ⇨ Join at Patreon: https://tinyurl.com/I411patreon Follow us: Website: https://interstate411.us Facebook:   / interstate411