OU Daily By Madeline Hoffmann
March 5, 2025
The Oklahoma Turnpike Authority announced Tuesday it will reroute the planned alignment of the South Extension Turnpike expansion, a part of the ACCESS Oklahoma project.
The proposed South Extension Turnpike is an approximately 19-mile highway expansion, which would stretch from the East-West Connector in Franklin to Interstate 35 in Slaughterville. In the original plan, the expansion would have run just west of Lake Thunderbird.
ACCESS Oklahoma is a 15-year, $8.2 billion plan to construct new turnpikes and expand existing highways statewide, including two turnpikes that would run through Norman.
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