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Turner Turnpike
Length:	86.0 mi^{[citation needed]} (138 km)
Formed:	May 16, 1953^[1]
West end:	Interstate 35 in Oklahoma City
Major junctions:	State Highway 18 in Chandler State Highway 99 in Stroud
East end:	State Highway 66 in Sapulpa
Counties:	Oklahoma, Lincoln, Creek
Major cities:	Oklahoma City, Tulsa
System:	Oklahoma turnpike system

[edit] History

Proposals as early as 1940^[1]
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]
Legis authorized as a toll road in 1947^[1]
- Turner signs act April 30 '47
- Legis names after Turner, to commemorate and assign blame
Opened May 16, 1953^[1]
Legislators promised 75% of work to be done by Oklahomans^[1]
Financed by bonds
- Unpopular at time on loan market
- New Jersey Tpk bonds sparked interest^[1]
"The turnpike issued $31 million in bonds in November 1950, and $7 million were sold in June 1952. "^[1]
Lawmakers did not understand bond system
- Sen Joe Bailey Cobb, Tishomingo: 170 years to pay off?^[1]
Promises made that as soon as bonds were paid off the road would become free^[1]
Cross-pledging made legal in 1953, passed vote of the people the following year^[1]
SH-33 interchange not original, added to 5 year plan in 1989

Full-service McDonald's restaurant and EZ-GO gas station in the center of the roadway near Stroud.
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.^[2]

County	Location	#	Destinations	Notes
Oklahoma	Start/end of Turner Turnpike
Lincoln		158	SH-66 – Wellston	Westbound 157, westbound entrance ramp contains a service area
	Chandler	166	SH-18 – Chandler, Cushing
	Stroud	179	SH-99 – Stroud, Drumright
Creek	Toll plaza
		196	SH-48 – Bristow, Lake Keystone
		211	SH-33 – Kellyville, Sapulpa	Signed Kellyville, Drumright westbound
	Sapulpa	215	SH-97 – Sapulpa, Sand Springs
		218A	SH-66 – Sapulpa
		218B	Creek Turnpike east
	Start/end of Turner Turnpike

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p Krehbiel, Randy. "Turner Turnpike paved with early suspicion", Tulsa World, 2003-05-05.
^ Oklahoma Highway Patrol. Retrieved on 2008-04-05.

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