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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 .
Tollbooth, toll plaza, toll booth, or toll gate A structure built on a toll road, bridge, or tunnel used for collecting fares from passing traffic. Toll road, turnpike, or tollway A road for which a fee (or toll) is assessed for passage. Tourist road, tourist route, tourist drive, or theme route. See scenic route. Traffic
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.
These presently include the formerly toll-free John F. Kennedy Bridge for southbound I-65, the Abraham Lincoln Bridge on northbound I-65, and the Lewis and Clark Bridge (including the East End Tunnel on the Kentucky approach) on IN 265/KY 841 (future extension of I-265 in both states). Motorists can obtain an E-ZPass transponder or a non ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; Appearance. ... A tollbooth is a place where tolls for road usage are collected on toll roads.
Many tollhouses were built by turnpike trusts in England, Wales and Scotland during the 18th and early 19th centuries. Those built in the early 19th century often had a distinctive bay front to give the pikeman a clear view of the road and to provide a display area for the tollboard. [ 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 ...
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]