They said they could do that.

Okay.

All right, it is a little bit after five, so we'll go ahead and get started and wait for other council members to uh when they come in, they can jump in on the discussion.

Um welcome to the city council conference for Tuesday, August 11th, 2026.

We have one item on the agenda, and that is a discussion regarding potential interchange locations within Norman for the South Extension Turnpike planned for construction by the Oklahoma Turnpike Authority.

And we do have representatives from the Oklahoma Turnpike Authority here to answer any questions.

Um I think they've got a few slides and then answering questions that council has about uh this particular uh proposal.

So please proceed there.

All right, thank you, Mayor Holman.

Um I'm Trenton January.

I'm the chief engineer for the Oklahoma Turnpike Authority, and I'm gonna I wasn't able to be at the last transportation committee meeting.

Um I was uh talking with the Winstone neighborhood just south of Indian on south of Indian Hills, west of I-35, giving them an update on where we are with uh construction and progress-wise, what they can expect during construction.

So wasn't able to be here to provide that normal update that I've been giving over the past few months.

So I'm gonna go through some of these slides.

Um councilwoman Grant has suggested since there are a couple new council members to kind of talk about OTA and our process just so they're kind of caught up to speed and where they're caught up to speed of where everything is.

And so I'll run through that and then I'll let Director E.

Kelly kind of touch base on the interchanges after that.

So I'll try to keep it brief as brief as possible.

Um really just wanted to talk about OTA's bond process where we go issue bonds, we do design and construction, and then we collect the tolls, and then we pay off those bonds with those tolls that we collect.

Um, and so that's just kind of how our business model we operate, um, just so everybody understood that process.

And again, we all know the Access Oklahoma program, it's an $8.2 billion investment into our system into the state's uh turnpike system.

Um the different projects are not just the new alignments, um, it's also widening the Turner Turnpike, adding in interchanges where there are interchanges there today.

I'm gonna use the example would be the community of DPU.

When the Turner was originally built, they didn't get an interchange.

Well, now that we have gone cashless, we have that opportunity, and they're asking for an interchange at their community so people can if they need to get off or visit their community and get there.

Um we also have some widening on the Will Rogers Turnpike, and we're adding interchanges on that or completing interchanges that are only partial interchanges to provide additional access.

And really that additional access is is you know, there's a safety component behind that of if you're you're traveling down the turnpike, and maybe there's a 17-mile distance in between two interchanges.

Um now you may have more of an opportunity, maybe a shorter distance to be able to turn around, or for emergency management services to be able to access something that may happen on the turnpike.

So those are those are some of the things when we're talking about adding interchanges is not only access but allowing more the ability for people to get to locations that they need to get to.

Uh John Kilkpatrick, uh, we're widening the rest of the John Kilpatrick on the west side of Oklahoma City, also adding additional interchange there at County Line.

And then as you can see on the Cimarron, the Creek, the Bailey, and the Indian Nation.

Again, talking about adding those interchanges in locations where there hasn't been any uh access.

Again, an example is on state high or on the Indian Nation at State Highway 63 and Blanco.

Um, it connects with the state highway, providing additional access to for people to be able to get on the turnpike or get to McAllister or get down to Antlers or Hugo or Paris, wherever they may be trying to get to.

And then again, the new alignments where there's about 4.4 billion on the new amount of alignments.

This is just an overall map of you can you can see on our Access Oklahoma website where you can you can go in there and you can click on these and you can get a lot more information.

Um again, orange orange is active construction, green are the completed projects, yellow are the ones that are currently in design, and the blue are our future routes that we're working on, but you know, we're not we're not um heavily working on those right now.

Here's kind of a snapshot of where we are today to date, what we have spent in engineering right-of-way and construction, and then also what we have under contract, whether it was an awarded construction contract or whether it is a board-approved contract with engineering or right-of-way acquisition or any of those contracts, engineering, design contracts.

Um, you know, we still have these amounts left on those contracts, which totals up to about 1.63 billion that we've spent or have under contract to date.

This is just a uh this up here when we say 208 pre-construction submittals, these are the planned designs that uh the firms have turned in across the entire Access Oklahoma program.

Um they've submitted 200 sets of those submittals, whether that be a 30%, 60%, 90%, a total or the PSNE, the final package.

And then down here at the bottom, oops, sorry, down here at the bottom is a kind of a right-away update.

This is for the full access program.

So anything on the Turner, Will Rogers, Indian Nation, any right-a-way that we have been working with landowners to purchase.

We're currently actively working with 408 different parcels.

We've closed on 219 across the entire program.

And then specifically on the Token Key East West, East West Express.

We're actively working with 124 parcels, and we've closed on about we close on 118.

And those are as of Friday, last Friday.

Um, we gave this presentation yesterday, so we we wanted to state the same numbers.

But these these numbers here change daily depending on if we worked out an agreement with the landowner on a purchase price, or maybe we swap some land as part of that agreement, whatever it may be, where we've closed on some parcels.

Give you a little update on some of the projects that we that are going on, like we like we normally talk about.

Uh, this is the bridge construction continues at the Canadian River at the beginning near the beginning of July.

We we hung all of the beams across the uh Canadian River.

Um, and these are a little over 200 foot spans, and we we did that intentionally.

We did that intentionally to to stay out of the ordinary high water mark, and and that allowed us to be able to stay out of the ordinary high water mark.

We didn't have to go.

We we worked with the core on that plan trying to make sure we were we were doing everything that we could to stay out of that impact area, um, and they were you know uh they worked with us on this, and then we know we worked with them on our lost creek permit on the east end of this project to be able to get permitted to be able to do work in that area.

But it but this was um this was a really really cool experience.

Um, this crane here was brought in on about 60 truckloads, um, and it's it was it was the largest crane at the time, it's probably the largest crane that I've seen, largest crane you've seen in our 20 plus years in Oklahoma.