Tulsa's DPS Megacenter Closing Permanently

The Tulsa Megacenter location will be permanently closing on Friday after months of serving as a faster DMV option for the Tulsa area. Officials say the Megacenter has served about 50,000 people in the five months they’ve been open.

Sarah Stewart with the Department of Public Safety said their plan was always to have both the Tulsa and Oklahoma City Megacenter locations open for about five months. The Oklahoma City location shut down in mid-December.

Stewart said the goal for the centers was to fix the extreme backlog of people needing a new license or Real-ID during the pandemic and she said they accomplished that.

“I think a lot of people took advantage of it and we were thrilled to be able to help them out after a lot of people we know were frustrated with long wait times at other places,” Stewart said. “This was a really great win for us and for our customers in the northeast part of the state.”

Stewart said they will be open through Friday night, meaning you still have from 6:30 a.m. to 1 0 p.m. Wednesday through Friday to walk right into the Megacenter without an appointment.

She said they are planning on adding more employees to two Tulsa DMV locations to help keep operations running smoothly in place of the Megacenter.

“We are working on getting extra employees at both our West Tulsa and East Gate locations so that hopefully we won’t go back to long wait times and we will have some extra employees there to continue that level of service we’ve been giving at the Megacenter,” Stewart said.

Stewart said you do not need an appointment to go to the DMV, but it does help get you in faster.