**Originally written and published by Bryan Armstrong on Ignite Liberty in March 2022. Re-printed here with permission of author.** A Brief Background of the OTA Imagine for a moment if the state legislature decided to create a privately funded organization in order to take over an essential function of government, and then gave that […]
The Biggest Bully on the Block: Oklahoma Turnpike Authority Read More »
The Kickapoo Turnpike was originally known as the Eastern Oklahoma County Turnpike announced in the 2015 Driving Forward Program. A 21 mile toll road connecting I44 near Luther to I40 near Newalla that opened in October of 2020, it was a hotly contested turnpike; for good reason. It was never authorized by the legislature. The
Was the Kickapoo Built Illegally? Read More »
The Oklahoma Turnpike Authority (OTA) has proposed rolling five billion dollars further into debt for improvement projects on existing turnpikes and constructing three new toll roads. They already sit nearly $2 billion US dollars in debt. In their 70 plus years of existence, the OTA has never had an audit conducted by the Oklahoma State
What is the Oklahoma Turnpike Authority Hiding? Read More »
By Twyla Smith Subjective Value is the worth of a Home and Land to the family who owns it. This personal worth of Home has increased during the past two years with our sequestering in our homes due to the pandemic. We have made our homes our schools for home schooling, offices for working at
Psychological Factors in the Threat of Eminent Domain Read More »
By Travis Wilson Their agenda was not to find the best route, a creative route, perhaps one that combines a new tollway with existing infrastructure, perhaps using highway 9. Their agenda was not to minimize bulldozed houses. (550 bulldozed houses on their plan map). Their agenda was not to minimize environmental impact. They didn’t even
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(source: FB – NO MORE TURNPIKES, Oklahoma!) Looking at all the turnpike projects over the last 29 years, and using historical imagery, I plotted all the homes that have been destroyed. I then calculated the number of homes destroyed per mile of turnpike, to normalize the data by length for a more direct comparison of
The Increasing Destruction Caused by the OTA Read More »
(source: FB – NO Turnpikes, Oklahoma) Spoiler alert: POE lied to us when they claimed our population would double in the next 30 years. As though it needed this level of analysis to tell it was BS (we all knew it was crap), I checked POE’s claim that the population will double over the next
The Actual Projected Growth of Norman, Moore, and OKC in the next 30 years Read More »
(source: FB – NO Turnpikes, Oklahoma!) The progression of this turnpike is the strongest case yet that the Oklahoma Turnpike Authority has outlived its usefulness, as it is unapologetically producing plans for turnpikes that have only fictional benefit. It is the wild animal kept too long as a pet that inevitably turns on its keeper.
Proposed Turnpike Increases Travel Time Read More »
As much as I don’t want to see a turnpike out my window, I believe this is a much bigger problem than a new tollway. I have to ask myself, what kind of state government do I want to be a citizen of? What kind of Oklahoma are we living in? The Late Supreme Court
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