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A tollbooth (or toll booth) is an enclosure placed along a toll road that is used for the purpose of collecting a toll from passing traffic. A structure consisting of several tollbooths placed next to each other is called a toll plaza , tollgate , or toll station .
Toll roads, especially near the East Coast, are often called turnpikes; the term turnpike originated from pikes, which were long sticks that blocked passage until the fare was paid and the pike turned at a toll house (or toll booth in current terminology) [citation needed].
The 12-lane New Jersey Turnpike in the U.S. is the most heavily traveled toll road in the world, carrying hundreds of thousands of automobiles daily.. A toll road, also known as a turnpike or tollway, is a public or private road for which a fee (or toll) is assessed for passage.
Turner Turnpike and Will Rogers Turnpike in Oklahoma—both use a modified ticket-based toll collection system that places only one mainline toll plaza on the highway, roughly halfway through the length of the road. Under this system, traffic exiting before reaching the mainline toll plaza pays at the exit.
This was the first toll road in Texas history, officially called the Dallas-Fort Worth Turnpike — although for years, the Star-Telegram referred to it as, ahem, the Fort Worth-Dallas Turnpike.
The Pennsylvania Turnpike, sometimes shortened to Penna Turnpike or PA Turnpike, is a controlled-access toll road which is operated by the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission (PTC) in Pennsylvania. It runs for 360 miles (580 km) across the southern part of the state, connecting Pittsburgh and Philadelphia , and passes through four tunnels as it ...
The Garden State Parkway northbound approaching the Cape May barrier toll plaza in New Jersey.At the time of the photograph, the toll plaza had a 70-cent toll for cars. A barrier toll system (also known as an open toll system) is a method of collecting tolls on highways using toll barriers at regularly spaced intervals on the toll road's mainline. [1]
Mar. 14—By GREG JORDAN. Bluefield Daily Telegraph. GHENT — A fiery crash at a turnpike tollbooth in Raleigh County resulted in three confirmed deaths, a trooper with the West Virginia State ...