Oklahoma City Business Loop
U.S. Route 66 Business |
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| Location: | Oklahoma City, Oklahoma |
Business US 66 in Oklahoma City followed the older alignment of US 66 after the main route was moved to the interstates. The original highway turned south from Edmond going into Oklahoma City, but the main route was moved onto Interstate 35. The beginning of the business route was at Lincoln Boulevard (in a concurrency with U.S. Route 77), leaving the main route on Interstate 440 (now Interstate 44). At 23rd Street (in front of the State Capitol), the two routes formed a tri-plex with U.S. Route 270 and turned west. US 77 turned off the multiplex at Broadway. At May Avenue, the Business US 66/US 270 routes turned north (forming a quadplex with Oklahoma State Highway 3 and Oklahoma State Highway 74). At I-440/US 66, the Business US 66 designation ended; the main route (along with US 270) continued west on the 39th Expressway (now Oklahoma State Highway 66).
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