More Turnpikes

[SMS]

Fallin announced a plan to build more toll roads...including $300M for one that connects I-40 to I-44 somewhere around Harrah to Luther on the premise it would make OKC to Tulsa travel quicker.

Seems like they could just improve 102 or 177 just a few miles east. Follow the money. I bet some well connected folks own the land in question.

http://m.newsok.com/governor-announces-new-ok-county-turnpike-other-improvements/article/5456798

 

[Shootin 4 Fun]

Hell, I'm all for it. The only well maintained roads in the state are toll roads.

 

[SoonerP226]

Seems like they could just improve 102 or 177 just a few miles east.

102 is garbage, but 177 is a really nice highway for a two-lane (exceptional for an Oklahoma two-lane, I'd say). It's the one I usually take when I go see my brother in T-Town.

Just do me a favor and keep it under your hat--I don't want to have to compete with the jackwagons that clog all the other highways around here...

 

[NikatKimber]

Hell, I'm all for it. The only well maintained roads in the state are toll roads.

And they aren't even very good here around Muskogee.

 

[p238shooter]

102 is garbage, but 177 is a really nice highway for a two-lane (exceptional for an Oklahoma two-lane, I'd say). It's the one I usually take when I go see my brother in T-Town.

Just do me a favor and keep it under your hat--I don't want to have to compete with the jackwagons that clog all the other highways around here...

If it is built as a turnpike the state might not have any expenses. From what I have understood from past information is that The Oklahoma Turnpike Authority is actually a private company type set up. They rent OHP and other services from their toll fees

 

[SoonerP226]

If it is built as a turnpike the state might not have any expenses.

If you're buying that, I have this lovely little bridge in Brooklyn that I'll let you have for cheap...

 

[SoonerP226]

The only well maintained roads in the state are toll roads.

You need to head down to Texas. The toll roads in Oklahoma are crap compared the stretch of I35 that the Chickasaws paid to have paved, and I35 between the Red and Dallas is better than any road in Oklahoma. The Turner sure ain't nothin' to write home about...

 

[Raoul Duke]

We need a constitutional amendment to cap the number of turnpikes in this State.

If the State wants a new one, one of the existing turnpikes has to become a freeway.

 

[1911Sooner]

Turner turnpike was supposed to have been paid for 30 years ago.

 

[Raoul Duke]

Which is why the number of turnpikes need to be capped at a number not greater than and possibly even less than the current number of turnpikes in the state.

It'd have to happen at the ballot box through initiative petition, though. Too many greased palms in the state legislature for them to send it to the voters.