Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Toll roads in Great Britain, used to raise fees for the management of roads in the United Kingdom, were common in the era of the turnpike trusts.Currently there is a single major road, the M6 Toll and a small number of bridges and tunnels where tolls are collected.
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 ...
Oakley Creek, near where the bored tunnels in the final (2010) alignments stop (and was joined to cut and cover built tunnels for the last section towards SH16).. Several routes were considered, all being variations of either a connection to SH16 along the Rosebank Peninsula (e.g. AR1, AR3) or at the Great North Road interchange at Waterview (e.g. AW1, AW4). [5]
ALPURT B2, the Northern Gateway Toll Road, opened on 25 January 2009 between Orewa and Puhoi. The Northern Gateway Toll Road was the first automated toll road in New Zealand, and the first under the authority of the NZ Transport Agency. At the same time, ALPURT B1 was upgraded to motorway standard to complete the Northern Motorway from central ...
The following is a list of toll roads.Toll roads are roads on which a toll authority collects a fee for use. This list also contains toll bridges and toll tunnels.Lists of these subsets of toll roads can be found in List of toll bridges and List of toll tunnels
Tolls on roads and bridges were very common in England in the 12th century and in the 15th century, schemes for improving particular roads or rivers were granted by acts of Parliament that authorised justices to levy rates for the repair of certain roads. In 1706, a new concept of road tolls was introduced in England: the turnpike trusts.
The Dartford–Thurrock River Crossing, commonly known as the Dartford Crossing and until 1991 the Dartford Tunnel, is a major road crossing of the River Thames in England, carrying the A282 road between Dartford in Kent in the south and Thurrock in Essex in the north. It consists of two bored tunnels and the cable-stayed Queen Elizabeth II Bridge.
The Lyttelton Road Tunnel, linking the City of Christchurch with the harbour at Lyttelton, was originally a Toll Tunnel built in 1962. The government of the day promised that as soon as the tunnel was paid for, the toll would be removed The promise was kept, and the toll was removed in the mid-1970s once the tunnel had been paid off.