 As early as the late 1950s , plans for a Tulsa freeway system included a route along 96th Street South . The 96th Street corridor was accessible to more motorists than other corridors further south ( farther away from the urban core ) , while still having low right @-@ of @-@ way costs , comparable to more southerly corridors . This made it the ideal route for a south Tulsa freeway . In 1986 , ODOT had plans to build a toll @-@ free facility called the Creek Freeway in the corridor as part of SH @-@ 117 . 
