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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. [31] West Virginia E-ZPass members can pay a flat annual fee for unlimited travel on the West Virginia Turnpike. [30] [32]
Traffic was significantly reduced in 1988 when the final section of I-64 was completed. [citation needed] Although considerably shorter than the Interstate Highway routing via the West Virginia Turnpike, these days, the Midland Trail serves mostly local traffic and shunpikers seeking a bucolic interlude.
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 agency is tasked with operating the West Virginia Turnpike, an 88-mile (142 km) tolled stretch of Interstate 77 from Charleston to Princeton. It was involved in the planned operation of a toll U.S. Route 35 in Mason and Putnam counties and the Mon-Fayette Expressway , however WV 43 was opened as a freeway and a possible toll US 35 ...
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.
While West Virginia was once crisscrossed with commercial and passenger railroad networks, the decline of the coal and timber industries, coupled with the rise of the automobile, led to a sharp drop in track mileage in the state. Many of the former railroad grades are used as trails for hiking and biking throughout the state's numerous woodlands.
Oct. 20—GHENT — Work for replacing the deck of a West Virginia Turnpike bridge south of Ghent is scheduled to start Sunday and be completed by Oct. 29, the West Virginia Parkways Authority ...
The junction with Interstate 64, constructed in 1975, [1] is a three-level junction that spans local streets and is the largest interchange in West Virginia with piers embedded in buildings, over water, and over nearby streets. One year later, Interstate 77 from the Interstate 64 junction to the West Virginia Turnpike was opened to traffic. [1]