As speed limits are lowered and the expansion of the Creek Turnpike begins, KRMG wanted to know who is using the state’s turnpikes.
We learned a large number of out-of-state drivers are actually paying to drive next to you.
Jack Damrill with the Oklahoma Turnpike Authority tells KRMG that 50% of all tolls are paid by out-of-state drivers.
"The majority of your out-of-state users are going to be coming in along the Will Rogers Turnpike and H.E. Bailey Turnpike with those being interstate designations and those cutting through the middle- basically the middle of Oklahoma," says Damrill. “Those are heavily traveled by tourists, people going out west, going back east and the majority of truck traffic that we see takes those turnpikes to get from coast-to-coast.”
He tells us that approximately 75,000 of roughly 580,000 Pikepass customers are connected to out-of-state licenses.
Damrill explains a majority of out-of-state traffic is from the trucking industry.