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This is a list of turnpike roads, built and operated by nonprofit turnpike trusts or private companies in exchange for the privilege of collecting a toll, in the U.S. states of Virginia and West Virginia, mainly in the 19th century. While most of the roads are now maintained as free public roads, some have been abandoned.
The West Virginia Turnpike is a member of the E-ZPass electronic toll collection consortium, allowing members to attach a transponder to their windshield or front bumper and pay electronically. [30] West Virginia E-ZPass members can pay a flat annual fee for unlimited travel on the West Virginia Turnpike. [29] [31]
The Northwestern Turnpike is a historic road in West Virginia (Virginia at the time the road was created), important for being historically one of the major roads crossing the Appalachians, financed by the Virginia Board of Public Works in the 1830s.
Construction of the Memorial Tunnel began in 1952. [3] It opened to traffic on November 8, 1954, [1] at a final cost of $5 million. [4] Its construction required moving 91,000 cubic yards (70,000 m 3) of earth, and it was the first tunnel in the nation to have closed-circuit television monitoring.
The West Virginia Parkways Authority was created in 1989 [2] as a successor to the West Virginia Turnpike Commission. The agency is tasked with operating the West Virginia Turnpike , an 88-mile (142 km) tolled stretch of Interstate 77 from Charleston to Princeton .
West Millford and New Salem Turnpike BPW 647. Salem, WV to Staunton and Parkersburg Road (1849-50 ch. 154) West Union Turnpike BPW 648. West Union, WV to Jug Handle Mill, WV (1850-51, 1853-54) Westham Turnpike (not in either 1859 list) (not on 1848 map) Richmond to Westham (1815-16 ch. 60) SR 147 (Cary Street) to Three Chopt Road
Northbound at the East River Mountain Tunnel, at the border of Virginia and West Virginia. I-77 enters West Virginia through the East River Mountain Tunnel. At milepost 9, I-77 becomes cosigned with the West Virginia Turnpike for the next 88 miles (142 km), a toll road between Princeton and Charleston.
The facility was last administered by the West Virginia National Guard. During the 1980s, an upgrade of the Turnpike included a 1.72 mile (2.77 km) bypass of the tunnel and the adjacent Stanley Bender Bridge across Paint Creek. [2] Costing $35 million to complete, 10,000,000 cubic yards (7,600,000 m3) of earth were removed in addition to ...