Interstate 240 (Oklahoma)

Interstate 240
Interstate 240
	I-240 highlighted in red
Route information
	Auxiliary route of I-40
	Maintained by ODOT
Length	16.22 mi (26.10 km)
Existed	1965–present
NHS	Entire route
Major junctions
West end	I-44 / US 62 / SH-3 in Oklahoma City, OK
	I-35 / US 62 / US 77 in Oklahoma City, OK
East end	I-40 / US 270 / SH-3 in Oklahoma City, OK
Location
Country	United States
State	Oklahoma
Counties	Oklahoma
Highway system
	Interstate Highway System; Main; Auxiliary; Suffixed; Business; Future; Oklahoma State Highway System; Interstate; US; State; Turnpikes;

Interstate 240 (I-240) is an Interstate Highway in Oklahoma, United States, that runs 16.22 miles (26.10 km) west from I-40 to I-44 in southern Oklahoma City. After its terminus in southwest Oklahoma City, the main I-240 roadbed becomes I-44 and Airport Road toward Will Rogers World Airport. The Interstate overlaps State Highway 3 (SH-3), the longest Oklahoma state highway, for its entire length.

Major destinations along the route include Tinker Air Force Base and the heavily populated Southside of Oklahoma City. With just under eight million square feet (0.74×10^⁶ m²) of commercial space, I-240 is a major corridor of retail, industrial, and office space. As of 2012, however, the corridor included some "pockets of shuttered stores and creeping shabbiness" and local planners were in the first stages of efforts to revitalize the corridor.

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