Joe Echelle, executive director of the Oklahoma Turnpike Authority, talks about solar eclipse preparations on Tuesday, April 2, 2024. (Photo by Janelle Stecklein/Oklahoma Voice)
OKLAHOMA CITY – The Oklahoma Turnpike Authority on Tuesday voted to seek interstate designations for two eastern Oklahoma turnpikes.
The panel voted to designate the nearly 33-mile Creek Turnpike in south Tulsa as Interstate 644 and to designate the 52-mile Muskogee Turnpike from Tulsa to Interstate 40 near Webbers Falls as Interstate 343…