It provides a convenient shortcut to I-635, bypassing the stoplights on State Avenue and Parallel Parkway.

Since 2020, due to low traffic use, some interchanges of the Turner Diagonal have been downgraded to at-grade junctions.

[2][3] K-132 was a highway commissioned in the 1960s to connect Kansas City, KS to its Turner and Argentine neighborhoods.

Its western terminus was originally at K-32, but was extended to terminate at I-70 in the late 1970s when the U.S. Route 40 alignment shifted to overlap I-70 after leaving the Turner Diagonal.

Its eastern terminus at U.S. Route 69 (18th Street Expressway) in industrial Kansas City, KS.