US 275 gets stop sign on far west side of Omaha

The end of the West Dodge freeway through western Omaha gets three different designations in a short span: US 6, Link 28B, and US 275. The last comes north from an intersection with NE 92 and merges into the freeway. Here’s a link to the Google Map.

The mainline freeway has its own lanes northeast of where 275 intersects Dodge Street (which has an exit away from the freeway). The intersection has been troublesome, and the Nebraska Department of Transportation has turned it into a four-way stop.

It changed just before Thanksgiving, WOWT reported. Previously, north-south traffic (275) did not stop.

My suggestion remains to turn the entire West Dodge freeway and Dodge Street through Omaha into US 275, creating a unified designation for the Omaha-Norfolk expressway that is being built very slowly. US 6 can be moved onto I-80 all the way through the Omaha/Council Bluffs metro, or onto NE 370, I-80 (or NE 50), and NE 92/L Street to either US 75 or I-29, or onto NE 92 all the way from NE 31 eastward. The last option would make 6 track back southeast a bit (Center Road is a mile and a half north of L Street) but that would be less than its new route down I-29 and back up on I-80. No roads would need to change jurisdiction, because the north-south part of 6 overlaps with NE 31 and the east-west part of 275 overlaps NE/IA 92.

This would avoid US 6’s awkward route in Council Bluffs following its move off Broadway (now with better signage, as seen in this WOWT story from Nov. 18). It could also remove some of the traffic through the troublesome intersection, because the north-south road would no longer be part of 275. The designations of 6 and 275 made sense for 80 years, but I think there are multiple options that would be more logical today.

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