Gilcrease Expressway
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The Gilcrease Expressway is a Template:Convert highway in Tulsa County, Oklahoma, United States. It is part of the county's long-term plan to complete an outer highway loop around Tulsa's central business district. The highway will connect Interstate 44 (I-44) in Sapulpa to I-244 near Tulsa International Airport.
Route descriptionEdit
Template:Unsourced section The eastern segment of the highway runs from North 41st West Avenue east to Interstate 244. From US-75 to I-244/US-412, the Gilcrease carries the easternmost part of State Highway 11. The currently existing highway serves Tulsa International Airport and surrounding areas.
Additionally, the Gilcrease Expressway Extension has been constructed. On October 29, 2015, Governor Mary Fallin announced Driving Forward, a $892 million turnpike package. A Template:Convert tolled extension of the Gilcrease Expressway was included in the package.<ref name=flyer /> The project began in the third quarter of 2016.<ref name="drivingforward">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
On June 4, 2018, the Oklahoma Transportation Commission approved the designation Oklahoma State Highway 344 for the highway, to take effect upon completion of construction.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The extension opened on November 14, 2022.<ref>Template:Cite newsTemplate:Cbignore</ref>
FutureEdit
In 2010, the Oklahoma Legislature authorized the Oklahoma Turnpike Authority to study the construction of a turnpike to complete the Gilcrease Expressway. The cost of the turnpike was estimated at $373 million for the final Template:Convert of the expressway.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
The next portion of the Gilcrease Expressway to be constructed is the segment between 41st West Avenue and Edison Street in West Tulsa. Although, the section between 41st West Avenue and Edison Street is named 31st Street North, 53rd West Avenue, Newton Street and 57th West Avenue.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Many homes have been removed along 57th West Avenue between West 26th Street and West 21st Street. Plans include construction of a bridge over the Arkansas River, connecting Sand Springs and Berryhill.
$88 million of a $918.7 million tax increase will be put forward to the expressway's extension.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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