The Norman Transcript By Mindy Ragan Wood September 27, 2022
Several Norman residents and officials asked the Oklahoma Senate’s Transportation Committee to impose “guardrail” policies to make the state’s turnpike authority more accountable and transparent to the public.
Pushback in Norman started shortly after the Oklahoma Turnpike Authority announced its statewide expansion of the toll road system, the $5 billion, 15-year, long-range ACCESS plan in February.
The agency intends to build a turnpike in east Norman in the Lake Thunderbird Watershed north from the Kickapoo Turnpike south to Purcell and another along Indian Hills Road. Local attorney Rob Norman, who has filed a lawsuit against OTA, proposed several policies that he said the legislature should enact to reign in the agency’s power.
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