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    Hang on there, you're saying that someone was looking to take turnpikes and turn them in to 240? That means free road, NOT turnpike. It would be lovely, but i dont see OTA ever giving that up. Especially after just building a lot of this so recently. Not to mention ODOT can't afford it.

    Just slapping 240 signs on a bunch of turnpikes would be meaningless.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bombermwc View Post
    Hang on there, you're saying that someone was looking to take turnpikes and turn them in to 240? That means free road, NOT turnpike. It would be lovely, but i dont see OTA ever giving that up. Especially after just building a lot of this so recently. Not to mention ODOT can't afford it.

    Just slapping 240 signs on a bunch of turnpikes would be meaningless.
    it would mean "free road" (not that any roads are truly free)

    lust like the turner is I44 and yet not a free road ..

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    Quote Originally Posted by bombermwc View Post
    Hang on there, you're saying that someone was looking to take turnpikes and turn them in to 240? That means free road, NOT turnpike. It would be lovely, but i dont see OTA ever giving that up. Especially after just building a lot of this so recently. Not to mention ODOT can't afford it.

    Just slapping 240 signs on a bunch of turnpikes would be meaningless.
    I'm guessing you've never driven I-44 to Tulsa or Lawton... Only non toll section of I-44 is what passes through OKC.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Roger S View Post
    I'm guessing you've never driven I-44 to Tulsa or Lawton... Only non toll section of I-44 is what passes through OKC.
    No, I-44 is a normal interstate through Lawton proper and maintained by ODOT. Don't have a dog in the argument but just wanted to make that note.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MagzOK View Post
    No, I-44 is a normal interstate through Lawton proper and maintained by ODOT. Don't have a dog in the argument but just wanted to make that note.
    Well in my defense I did say "to" and not through... The same could be said for Tulsa... I-44 isn't all toll there if you drive through Tulsa.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Roger S View Post
    Well in my defense I did say "to" and not through... The same could be said for Tulsa... I-44 isn't all toll there if you drive through Tulsa.
    Just a matter of semantics, As I mentioned I wasn't stoking your fire just pointing it out. Thanks.

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    Default Re: I-240 Extension Canceled

    Quote Originally Posted by bombermwc View Post
    Hang on there, you're saying that someone was looking to take turnpikes and turn them in to 240? That means free road, NOT turnpike. It would be lovely, but i dont see OTA ever giving that up. Especially after just building a lot of this so recently. Not to mention ODOT can't afford it.

    Just slapping 240 signs on a bunch of turnpikes would be meaningless.
    I-44 through pretty much all of the state, and then I-35 once you hit Kansas all the way to Kansas City says that isn't the case.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bombermwc View Post
    Hang on there, you're saying that someone was looking to take turnpikes and turn them in to 240? That means free road, NOT turnpike.
    This is incorrect. An interstate shield merely means that the road has been approved by AASHTO and FHWA to be part of the Eisenhower Interstate System. There are a number of prerequisites to get this approval, but they all have to do with the design of the road (i.e. no intersections, must meet standards for clearance and minimum lane widths, etc.).

    Toll roads have been a part of the Interstate System since its inception. The Turner and Will Rogers turnpikes in Oklahoma, the Kansas Turnpike, the Pennsylvania Turnpike, and others were all pre-existing toll roads incorporated into the Interstate System in 1956. Since the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991, there is no longer any special Interstate-exclusive construction or maintenance funding mechanism, so any funding source can be used to build an Interstate.

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