Crews Making Progress On Gilcrease Turnpike Expansion

News 9

By: Emory Bryan

March 17, 2022,

TULSA, Oklahoma - A plan to expand Oklahoma’s turnpikes includes completing a northwest loop around downtown Tulsa, and repairing a bridge that’s drawn complaints since it was built. The plan to spend $5 billion over 15 years would widen to the two turnpikes that lead to Tulsa.

The construction on the first part of the Gilcrease Turnpike is just months from completion, but a second phase would extend it around downtown. On the Creek turnpike, the plans include rebuilding the interchange at Highway 51 leading to Coweta.

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