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8 unusual facts about Toll road


A308 road

The largely straight road from Hampton Court was surfaced and tolled in the 1780s by the Hampton and Staines Turnpike Trust.

Charley Eugene Johns

During his term as Acting Governor, Johns promoted highway construction, eliminating tolls on the Overseas Highway between Miami and Key West.

David Swarts

While County Clerk, Swarts focused a lot of attention on the ending of tolls on highways surrounding Buffalo, New York.

John Scott of Amwell

In his time he was celebrated as an expert on the turnpike roads and a critic of the Poor Law.

Stanton Drew

At the northern entrance to the village before the bridge over the River Chew is a white thatched, 18th-century house which became a toll house when turnpikes were in use.

Toll road

Toll roads have existed for at least the last 2,700 years, as tolls had to be paid by travellers using the SusaBabylon highway under the regime of Ashurbanipal, who reigned in the 7th century BC.

Aristotle and Pliny refer to tolls in Arabia and other parts of Asia.

Wantirna, Victoria

The EastLink tollway runs through Wantirna with interchanges at Boronia Road and Burwood Highway.


Barren County, Kentucky

Barren County is served by Interstate 65, which goes through the northwest part of the county, and the Louie B. Nunn Cumberland Parkway, a former toll road that is designated to be part of the future Interstate 66 corridor.

Florida State Road 913

Southbound traffic for the Miami Seaquarium, beaches, and other tourist attractions along the Rickenbacker Causeway would exit at Southwest 23rd Road, then take Southwest First Avenue to Southwest 25th Road, which would lead (via Brickell Avenue) to the toll booths on the entrance of the Causeway.

Interstate 69

Indiana examined building most of SIU 3 as a toll road, but quickly reverted to making it toll-free in 2006 with an announcement to that effect by Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels after widespread opposition from I-69 opponents and supporters alike.

Jones Gap State Park

From 1840 to 1848, the self-taught mountain road builder Solomon Jones (1802-1899) cut a toll road from Caesars Head, South Carolina, to Cedar Mountain, North Carolina.

Mike Krusee

Krusee has been an ally of Governor Rick Perry on the Trans-Texas Corridor and other toll road initiatives, expansion projects unpopular with many voters in both parties.

Orange County Transportation Authority

The express lanes are a four-lane, 10-mile toll road in the median of the Riverside Freeway (SR-91) between the Orange/Riverside County line and the Costa Mesa Freeway (SR-55).

Pennsylvania Route 232

South of Penns Park, the road was originally known as the Fox Chase and Huntingdon Valley Turnpike or the Second Street Turnpike, a turnpike that connected farms in Bucks County to Philadelphia.

Pole Moor

The Huddersfield to Rochdale turnpike road of 1806, the A640 passes over Pole Moor where there was an inn, the Royal George, and where several pack horse routes crossed, including one from Halifax to Marsden and on to Lancashire.

Shefford Woodlands

Shefford Woodlands developed where the road linking Hungerford and Wantage (later a turnpike, now the A338) crossed the Roman road of Ermin Street linking Silchester and Gloucester.

Tamiami Trail

Plans for the I-75 extension changed for two reasons; Alligator Alley needed upgrading as the then-narrow toll road was dangerous to both motorists and wildlife (most notably the Florida panther) alike; and State Road 836, with its left exits and narrow lanes, was not being built to Interstate Highway standards.

U.S. Route 550

The original portion of the Million Dollar Highway was a toll road built by Otto Mears in 1883 to connect

William Huston Natcher

Also named in Natcher's honor in 1997 is the William H. Natcher Green River Parkway, a Kentucky state parkway (formerly a toll road) that runs between Bowling Green and Owensboro.


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A62 autoroute

The road is a toll road for the majority of its course (free between Bordeaux and La Brède), it is operated by ASF.

Arco Norte

It serves as a bypass around Greater Mexico City and currently links the Mexico-Puebla toll road on the east with the Mexico-Querétaro toll road on the west.

Plans are for the Arco Norte to be extended at its western end from the junction with the Mexico-Querétaro toll road to Atlacomulco and the junction with Mexican Federal Highway 126, a route to Guadalajara.

Autopista Chamapa-La Venta

The Autopista Chamapa-La Venta is a toll road in Greater Mexico City.

Autopista Peñón-Texcoco

The Autopista Peñón-Texcoco is a toll road in Greater Mexico City.

Bali Mandara Toll Road

This toll road was officially opened on 23 September 2013 by President of Indonesia Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.

Bill Vardoulis

He recently proposed a concept for an 11 mile transportation tunnel under the Cleveland National Forest that would connect the 133 Toll Road in Orange County to the I-15 Freeway in Riverside County.

Central Luzon Link Expressway

Central Luzon Link Expressway (CLLEx) is a proposed toll road that will connect the Subic-Clark-Tarlac Expressway (SCTEx) to the proposed North Luzon East Expressway in Cabanatuan City, Nueva Ecija towards San Jose City, Nueva Ecija.

Illinois Route 6

Recently, a Republican Illinois State Senator, Dale Risinger, has put forth a bill that would make the proposed route a toll road (it would likely cost drivers more to drive around another way than to have to pay the toll).

Jagorawi Toll Road

On September 8, 2013, the toll road has been a major point for an accident involving Ahmad Dhani and Maia Estianty's youngest son Dul, primarily on the km 8+200 mark.

Kuala Lumpur – Karak Expressway

As a result, two toll gates were constructed at Gombak and Bentong and the toll road was administered under Malaysian Highway Authority.

Loser Plateau

It is most easily accessed up a toll road from the town of Altaussee.

Mary's River Covered Bridge

The bridge was built in 1854 as part of a plank toll road connecting Chester to Bremen; the bridge allowed agricultural products to be transported to Chester, a significant port on the Mississippi River.

Osceola Parkway

The road then has an interchange with the Southern Connector, where the Parkway becomes a limited access toll road (although not a full expressway).

Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America

European route E73 – fifth segment of Pan-European Corridor with toll road listings

South Jersey Transportation Authority

State Senator Jeff Van Drew has called for the SJTA to build the southern extension of Route 55 as an elevated toll road from its current southern terminus at Route 47 in Port Elizabeth to Cape May County.

Tangerang–Merak Toll Road

In mid-2012 the toll road operator, pt marga mandala sakti, a subsidiary of PT Astra International Tbk, said that construction of all parts of the road to connect with the port of Merak was almost complete.

Virginia State Route 895

Transurban, which owns and operates the CityLink tollway in Melbourne and the M2 Hills Motorway toll road in Sydney, said that it had agreed to acquire a 99-year concession on the Pocahontas Parkway for a total cost of $US611 million (A$815 million).

West Virginia Turnpike

The bypass was not the first of its kind on a toll road, as the Pennsylvania Turnpike bypassed the Laurel Hill Tunnel in 1964 in similar fashion, and later bypassed two more tunnels with a single stretch of highway in 1968.