This and the top photo are both courtesy Jeremy Lance, on the Broken Arrow Expressway leaving Tulsa. Oklahoma just redesigned its state shield from a boring old circle to an exciting state outline, like Florida does and Connecticut did. Of course, this looks like a meat cleaver (the most popular analogy) stuck into the cranium of the route number. The BGS shields were replaced first, meaning that roadside shields like in the first photo still stand. Once 51 leaves the freeway for a surface alignment, the tolled Muskogee Turnpike takes over.


Sheridan Ave. in Tulsa (at US 64/OK 51, which I left in the bottom of the photo), courtesy David Backlin.


OK 51 leaves US 64 WB in Sand Springs, just west of Tulsa, also courtesy David Backlin.


The new style of Oklahoma state route shield always looks wrong, because the numbers aren't made to fit into the state outline. That being said, these signs courtesy Scott Nazelrod are especially wrong. Lane arrows are supposed to be directly above the lanes, and if the arrows on the left sign were centered with "Wichita" instead of scrunched over to the left, that would actually happen. The sign on the right mysteriously came out Clearview even though both of these seem to date to the same time. There's also no need for the JCT (or Jct, which is another error).

Straight onto the Muskogee Tpk.
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