A new, 5-mile-long section of Highway 20 in Rogers County opened to traffic Friday, after 30 years of planning and two years of construction. The final $68 million leg diverts Highway 20 traffic around the South side of Claremore, with a link to US Route 66 and the Will Rogers Turnpike / I-44.
The new interchange on the turnpike opened last month and has already had 50,000 drivers use it.
“The first couple of days were less than a thousand, but the last week has been two thousand a day, and that just shows me there was a need,” said Joe Eschelle, the Executive Director of the Oklahoma Turnpike Authority…