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The toll roads in Central Texas are governed through the Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority (CTRMA), which is stated to be the creating agency for transportation models to keep up with today's population growth. to promote future road construction which is to alleviate traffic issues within Travis and Williamson Counties [5] Texas is one ...
The Texas Turnpike Authority (TTA) began construction on the state's first toll road, the Dallas–Fort Worth Turnpike, in 1955 and opened the road in 1957. Original plans were for the bonds on the Turnpike to be retired in 1995; however, the bonds were retired in 1977 (17 years ahead of schedule) and tolls were then removed from the road ...
The tolled portion extended to Hillcrest Road in Plano/Frisco on August 31, 2008. The tollway was extended to Custer Road on September 1, 2009, and again to Hardin Boulevard in McKinney on October 1, 2009. The tollway (formerly named 121 Tollway) was renamed in honor of Sam Rayburn at a North Texas Tollway Authority meeting on March 16, 2009.
Central Polk Parkway—planned, unfunded toll road in Polk County. As of January 2015, the design phase of seven of eight segments has been funded. [104] Heartland Parkway—proposed 110-mile (180 km) toll road through interior counties, from southwest of the Orlando metro area to the Fort Myers-Naples area. [105]
DNT at the Lovers Lane overpass DNT just north of the Northwest Highway DNT at the Alpha Road interchange. The Dallas North Tollway (DNT, or simply the Tollway) is a 30.2-mile (49 km) controlled-access toll road operated by the North Texas Tollway Authority (NTTA), which runs from Interstate 35E near Downtown Dallas, Texas (), to U.S. Highway 380, in Frisco, Texas.
The first time a toll road was mentioned was in a 1979 survey of several routes by the Texas Turnpike Authority, leading to the construction of the Hardy Toll Road in Northern Harris County by HCTRA. A heavy rail line along the corridor was floated in the 1980s, but failed to win voter approval, along with a monorail that was ended with Mayor ...
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.
On October 28, 2010, the Texas Transportation Commission approved up to $90 million for the construction of Segment 3B through State Infrastructure Bank loans and a toll equity loan. [13] Construction on Segment 3B began on January 21, 2011, [ 14 ] and the segment opened to traffic on March 28, 2013, completing the 26-mile (42 km) loop from I ...