Privately-funded "airline highway" floated to Gov Roy J Turner on Feb 21 '47[1]
"I don't believe it is right to build a king's highway in a free country." —Streeter Speakman, the chairman of the Oklahoma House roads committee, 1947[1]
"Oklahomans will be shackled with tolls for the rest of their lives." —Sen Boyd Cowden, Chandler[1]
Opposed by small towns fearing it would divert US 66 traffic and harm them[1]
Also opposed as benefiting the Daily Oklahoman and Tulsa World, operating delivery trucks[1]
"a speedway for E.K. Gaylord's express" — Sen. Everett Collins of [1]
Concession areas along the Turner Turnpike were originally
Howard Johnson's restaurants and full-service
Phillips 66 stations, but changed to their current configurations in the 1980s as was the case with concession areas along other Oklahoma turnpikes.[citation needed]
Law enforcement along the Will Rogers Turnpike is provided by
Oklahoma Highway Patrol Troop YB, a special troop assigned to the turnpike.[3]
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Privately-funded "airline highway" floated to Gov Roy J Turner on Feb 21 '47[1]
"I don't believe it is right to build a king's highway in a free country." —Streeter Speakman, the chairman of the Oklahoma House roads committee, 1947[1]
"Oklahomans will be shackled with tolls for the rest of their lives." —Sen Boyd Cowden, Chandler[1]
Opposed by small towns fearing it would divert US 66 traffic and harm them[1]
Also opposed as benefiting the Daily Oklahoman and Tulsa World, operating delivery trucks[1]
"a speedway for E.K. Gaylord's express" — Sen. Everett Collins of [1]
Concession areas along the Turner Turnpike were originally
Howard Johnson's restaurants and full-service
Phillips 66 stations, but changed to their current configurations in the 1980s as was the case with concession areas along other Oklahoma turnpikes.[citation needed]
Law enforcement along the Will Rogers Turnpike is provided by
Oklahoma Highway Patrol Troop YB, a special troop assigned to the turnpike.[3]
^
abcdefghijklmnopKrehbiel, Randy (2003-05-05). "Turner Turnpike paved with early suspicion". Tulsa World. {{
cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (
help)