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Toll roads in the United States

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Since the completion of the initial portion of the Interstate Highway System, regulations were changed, and portions of toll facilities have been added to the system. Some states are again looking at toll financing for new roads and maintenance, to supplement limited federal funding. In some areas,
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was established, funding non-toll roads with 90% federal dollars and 10% state match, giving little incentive for states to expand their turnpike systems. Funding rules initially restricted collections of tolls on newly funded roadways, bridges, and tunnels. In some situations, expansion or
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new road projects have been completed and later maintained with public-private partnerships funded by tolls, also known as
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rebuilding of a toll facility using Interstate Highway funding resulted in the removal of existing tolls. This occurred in
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In the mid to late nineteenth century, private toll road building was particularly active in the West including
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By 1956, most limited-access highways in the eastern United States were toll roads. In that year, the federal
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when a second parallel roadway to the regional 1958 bridge-tunnel was completed in 1976.
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Use, Esteem, and Profit in Voluntary Provision: Toll Roads in California, 1850–1902,
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The Voluntary Provision of Public Goods? The Turnpike Companies of Early America,
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systems. One such public-private partnership was the constructions of the
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Nevada Historical Society Quarterly 41 (Summer 1998), 71–91.
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system as an alternative to paying cash. Examples of this are the
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Typical Toll Concession P3 Structure as described by the
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Turnpikes and Toll Roads in Nineteenth-Century America
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International Bridge, Tunnel and Turnpike Association
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Index

List of toll roads in the United States

SR 417
Orlando, Florida

E-ZPass
electronic tolling
toll roads
United States
West
South
electronic toll collection
E-ZPass
toll bridges
Virginia
Maine
Illinois
California
FasTrak
Florida
SunPass
Kansas
K-Tag
Oklahoma
Pikepass
Texas
TxTag
Houston
EZ Tag
Dallas

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