The Oklahoma Turnpike Authority (OTA) announced the opening last Thursday morning, March 13, of a new Will Rogers Turnpike (I-44) interchange near Claremore, the second interchange completed since the authority’s conversion to cashless tolling. The facility located at Flint Road-East 510 Road (mile marker 252) was built as part of a $64 million OTA-Oklahoma DOT project to realign SH-20. The new highway alignment is still under construction but is expected to open later this spring. “Motorists coming from Tulsa and Claremore in a 2-axle vehicle will pay a 66-cent toll at the Flint Rd. exit.”
OTA notes that the conversion to all-electronic tolling is allowing it to “add new interchanges to communities for the first time since the inception of Oklahoma’s turnpikes in 1953.”