Tulsa World
By P.J. LASSEK World Staff Writer
Published: 11/24/20102:20 AM
Last Modified: 11/24/20103:53 AM
Mayor Dewey Bartlett said Tuesday that building the Gilcrease Expressway as a turnpike is the fastest way to complete the road and open north Tulsa to development.
"That road has been on our map as an expressway since roughly 1955 and it's still not completed," Bartlett said in a speech at the Tulsa Press Club Page One Luncheon.
"At the rate we're going, it will be decades before that road is completed," he said. "So the question is, do we wait for that period of time to happen or look at an alternative way and allow for commerce and economic development to occur and prosper."
Earlier this month, the Oklahoma Turnpike Authority approved a $767,100 study of completing the Gilcrease Expressway.
The project involves a road beginning at Interstate 44 at or near its intersection with 49th West Avenue, extending north to U.S. 64, turning northeast, crossing 41st West Avenue and continuing east to the L.L. Tisdale Expressway... FULL ARTICLE
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