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  Toll road - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tolls were used in the Holy Roman Empire in the 14th century and 15th century.
Toll roads peaked in the mid 19th century, and by the turn of the twentieth century most toll roads were taken over by state highway departments.
In some situations where the tolls were increased or felt to be unreasonably high, informal shunpiking by individuals escalated into a form of boycott by regular users, with the goal of applying the financial stress of lost toll revenue to the authority determining the levy.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Toll_road   (4078 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Toll lanes: A freer ride, for a price   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Toll revenue grew to an average of $13 million annually, and the Orange County Transportation Authority ended up purchasing the lanes for $207.5 million.
Toll rates can be changed automatically, which allows managers to use supply and demand to control congestion: Tolls go up as traffic increases, thereby thinning out the drivers unwilling to pay more.
Virginia is considering similar proposals to add toll lanes to its sections of the Capital Beltway (I-495), I-95 and the 365-mile length of I-81.
www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2004-04-07-tolls-usat_x.htm   (1170 words)

  
 Toll Road Facilities
The toll agreement is executed between the Federal Highway Administration, the State Department of Transportation, and the toll authority.
The issue of whether a toll facility is to become free when debt is retired or at some other future point in time or whether tolls are to be continued indefinitely is a matter to be determined by the State.
Decisions regarding the amount of tolls charged are made by the toll authority subject to requirements under State and local laws and regulations.
www.fhwa.dot.gov /programadmin/tollfac.html   (845 words)

  
 Toll Houses & Bridges
The Addison Toll House is the only hand-cut native stone toll house in Pennsylvania; it is an authentic reflection of the structure as it existed in 1835, when toll collection began.
Toll Collector William Condon, who lived in the house with his family, reported income of $1,758.87 for that year.
The advent of the automobile in the early twentieth century rescued the road from disrepair, and by the 1920's the National Road was reincarnated as U.S. The Searights Toll House is one of two remaining of the original six commissioned toll houses in Pennsylvania.
www.nationalroadpa.org /tollhouses_bridges.html   (351 words)

  
 Toll Collector
Handles emergency situations occurring in the operation of a toll booth; assists in moving vehicles from the toll lanes; keeps toll plaza lanes and island clean and clear of ice by using hand tools or loading cleaning or deicing material into a spreader and distributing on the toll lanes.
Operates a two-way radio and telephone communication station in toll booth to summon law enforcement officers or supervisory assistance and to receive instructions; maintains traffic surveillance in cooperation with law enforcement and other authorities to identify persons or vehicles for which they have been alerted.
The Toll Collector job family has four levels which are distinguished by the level of skill required and responsibility for providing leadership to others.
www.opm.state.ok.us /jfd/t-specs/t50.htm   (800 words)

  
 The Environmental Law & Policy Center :: The Illinois Toll Authority's Financial Crisis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
According to the report, the Toll Authority lacks the resources to administer all but the most minimal improvements to its ailing infrastructure, effectively consigning its 274-mile road network to a state of intractable disrepair.
Forecasts included in the report show that tolls across the 274-mile network would be doubled under Option C and tripled under option D using the Toll Authority's current funding structure.
Such is the case with the original toll roads, and recent news reports have noted that tollway officials knew from the time the roads were first constructed in the 1950s that they would require a comprehensive overhaul within 40 years of opening.
www.elpc.org /trans/toll/tollauthexecsummary.php   (897 words)

  
 Toll Gas & Welding Supply - Toll History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
H.R. Toll (Bob) opened his business office, which was a rented desk in a St. Paul public warehouse.
Toll expanded into the fields of cryogenics and specialty gases and the third company, Toll Cryogenics Inc., was started.
Toll Welding had expanded with more trucks and acquired stores and agencies around the Twin Cities area for the convenience of their many customers.
www.danieldesigngroup.com /toll_gas/corporate/history.htm   (436 words)

  
 TOLL FREE NUMBERS | Frequently Asked Questions
No, our toll free service is a separate service that we setup to ring to any local telephone number that you choose.
If the per minute toll charges billed to us by the telephone company go up at any time during the life of service, your toll rate will increase immediately, but only by the corresponding amount.
A great toll free number is a tool to help businesses reach that goal and it must be affordable for the long term.
www.toll-free-numbers.biz /main_faqs.htm   (1288 words)

  
 MdTA Toll Increase   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Toll rates at the two tunnels and the Key Bridge have not increased since 1985, when standard toll rates were raised from $.75 to $1 in each direction.
Toll rates at the Kennedy Highway and Hatem Bridge last increased in 2001, when standard toll rates were raised from $2 to $4 (tolls at these facilities are collected in one direction only).
The Maryland Transportation Authority owns and operates Maryland's seven toll facilities and is authorized under State law to set and establish tolls.
www.mdot.state.md.us /News/2003/October2003/MdTA_toll_increase.htm   (645 words)

  
 Toll Brothers Detail
Toll Brothers is the nation's leading builder of luxury homes and has been for nearly 40 years and three generations.
The reasons for Toll Brothers' success are many, of course, all of which are the result of exceptional commitment and foresight uncommon in the homebuilding industry.
Toll Brothers is the only public homebuilder to receive the three most coveted awards in the industry: America's Best Builder, National Builder of the Year and the National Housing Quality Award.
www.hbg.com /siteSpecific/builders/builderDetail.aspx?builderID=50   (261 words)

  
 Putting Customers in the Driver's Seat: The Case for Tolls   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Tolls are only to be employed when it is impossible to find tax revenues to finance roads, and it is good public policy to retire debt and end tolls as soon as possible.
Toll agencies are usually aware that customers expect premium service because of the toll they are paying, so they generally make an effort to provide something extra—quicker salting and snow plowing, motorist assistance patrols, better maintained signage, lighting, guardrails, and the like.
Toll roads are most appropriately compared with freeways and expressways—other roads with divided medians, grade separation from cross roads, access control, breakdown shoulders, etc. According to USDOT statistics, the nation’s freeways and expressways had 8.6 fatalities per billion miles traveled in 1998.
www.rppi.org /ps274.html   (14226 words)

  
 One-way toll opens on I-95   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Murray said the speed limit through the concrete barriers at the former southbound tolls was dropped to 20 mph, compared to last year's 35 mph limit.
Murray said the ongoing one-way toll would help reduce traffic backups and congestion until the state is able to deploy its EZ-Pass electronic toll collection system next year.
In her report to the governor and council, Murray said the limited public discussion of the one-way toll idea last year contributed to the widespread opposition to the project among Seacoast towns.
www.eagletribune.com /news/stories/20040701/NH_003.htm   (745 words)

  
 ELPC - Toll Authority Overview   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
From the outset, the legislature made clear that the Toll Authority was to be a temporary enterprise, lasting only as long as it was necessary to charge the tolls, themselves.
When these debts had been fully refunded, both the tolls and the Toll Authority were to be eliminated.
Facing another legal challenge to a similar financing scheme for the new North-South Tollway, the Toll Authority pressured the Illinois Legislature to rewrite the law so that it would be allowed to divert revenues from old roads to pay for new ones.
www.elpc.org /trans/toll/toll4.htm   (663 words)

  
 Toll From Tsunami Rises to More Than 51,000 (washingtonpost.com)
The death toll rose to more than 51,000 people, a large percentage of them on this island nation in the Indian Ocean.
There were warnings throughout the affected area that the death toll might spike sharply higher.
Among the known dead, there were about 3,400 fatalities in the state of Tamil Nadu, where hundreds of fishermen were swept out to sea, as were strollers on a popular beach in Madras, the state capital.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A30965-2004Dec28.html   (1969 words)

  
 VDOT Travel Center: FAQs- Virginia Toll Facilities   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Virginia has several toll facilities, located in Northern Virginia, Central Virginia and Hampton Roads, including the new Chesapeake Expressway to the Outer Banks.
The 14 mile road connects to the Dulles Toll Road at Route 28 at the Dulles International Airport and extends west to Route 15 at Leesburg.
Tolls vary depending on vehicle size from $12 for passenger vehicles up to $42 for six-axle tractor-trailer trucks.
www.virginiadot.org /comtravel/faq-toll.asp   (518 words)

  
 BBC - Birmingham Travel - The new M6 toll road
The toll system will place vehicles into different categories and charge separate rates for each category depending on the size of the vehicle.
The first 10 million vehicles to use the new M6 Toll benefit from a discount of £1 off standard day and night tolls, Langley Mill toll will be half the launch toll (minimum toll 50p).
The new M6 Toll will run from junction 4 on the M6 and arc around the north-east of the West Midlands conurbation rejoining the M6 at 11a.
www.bbc.co.uk /birmingham/travel/m6-toll-rd.shtml   (738 words)

  
 Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel -- TOLL SCHEDULE
On October 10, 2000, the Chesapeake Bay Bridge and Tunnel Commission approved the establishment of a vehicle toll classification and toll rate for school buses effective October 11, 2000.
The school bus vehicle toll classification is Class 8 and the toll rate is $10.
Customers crossing the facility would pay an initial toll of $10; however, if they make a return trip within twenty-four hours of the original crossing -proven by receipt, they would pay a return toll of $4.
www.cbbt.com /schedule.html   (422 words)

  
 Govt Plans to Introduce Highway Toll Next Year
The toll will be charged at the rate of SR5 for private cars, SR7.5 for light trucks and SR15 for heavy trucks, for each 100 kilometers, Al-Watan daily reported quoting the document.
GTC proposed either to speed up implementation of the toll system or imposition of a fuel surcharge at the rate of four halalas per liter of petrol and seven halalas per a liter of diesel.
According to previous reports, the toll would be restricted to new highways, where there will be alternative roads, with private operators building them under the build-operate-transfer system.
www.arabnews.com /?page=1§ion=0&article=52670&d=10&m=10&y=2004   (462 words)

  
 TOLL Group - Logistics and Transport in Australia, Australias Largest Logistics and Transport Provider
Toll Holdings Limited (Toll) today lodged its Bidder's Statement with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission and Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) for its off-market takeover offer (Offer) for all of the shares it does not already own in Patrick Corporation Limited (Patrick).
Toll Holdings today announced it has agreed to accept a takeover offer to be made by Mainfreight Limited in respect of Toll's Shareholding in Owens Group Limited.
Patrick Corporation and Toll Holdings Limited today announced that their jointly owned rail investment, Pacific National, had recorded a profit after tax of $78.0 million for the 9 months ending 31 March 2005, an increase of 39% over the previous corresponding period.
www.toll.com.au   (454 words)

  
 Toll Brothers Investor Relations
The move represents an expansion of Toll Brothers’ growing presence in the Midwest, where it currently operates in the metro Chicago and metro Detroit areas.
TOLL BROTHERS HOSTS GALA GRAND OPENING EVENT FOR NAVAL SQUARE, THE FORMER U.S. HORSHAM, Pa. July 14—Toll Brothers, Inc. (NYSE:TOL), the nation’s leading builder of luxury homes, today announced the official grand opening of Naval Square, the original U.S. Naval Home and hospital.
Toll Brothers is in the process of completing an epic restoration of Biddle Hall, the centerpiece of the historic property, which is designated as a National Historic Landmark.
www.tollbrothers.com /homesearch/servlet/HomeSearch?app=IRhome   (1084 words)

  
 TOLLROADSnews   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
These include big hikes in toll rates on the Indiana Toll Road and requests for investor proposals on the big east-west route across the far north of the state.
Harris County Toll Road Authority (HCTRA) have stopped collecting tolls and have a notice on their website saying the website is closed because of the hurricane.
Cofiroute are doing a major upgrade of their toll systems as part of preparations to open the first section of A86 West, underground tollway in the western part of Paris.
www.tollroadsnews.com   (3334 words)

  
 The Toll Roads - Press Release
The Toll Roads are operated by the Transportation Corridor Agencies (TCA), two joint powers authorities formed by the California state legislature in 1986 to plan, finance, construct, and operate Orange County's 67-mile public toll road system.
Fifty-one miles of the system are complete, including the San Joaquin Hills (73) Toll Road from Newport Beach to San Juan Capistrano; and the Foothill/Eastern Toll Roads (241, 261, 133) from the 91 Freeway to south Orange County.
The Toll Roads also are alleviating traffic congestion on freeways and arterial streets.
www.tcagencies.com /home/news_press_April03b.htm   (421 words)

  
 Indiana Toll Road Photos   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Toll Road used to be run by the Indiana Toll Road Commission, but was absorbed into the Indiana Department of Transportation in 1981.
CR 17 is used as a connection between the Toll Road at its Exit 96, which opened in 1997, and the eastern of the St. Joseph Valley Parkway freeway southeast of Elkhart.
The ramps from the Toll Road do not meet Indiana 933/Business 31 (old US 31/33) until well away from the Toll Road, due to the intervening town of Roseland (map -- the two sides are not aligned properly).
www.roadfan.com /intrph.html   (1793 words)

  
 Translation of toll
toll in Hungarian is kár, hídvám, vám, vámszedési jog, harangszó
toll in Swedish is möda, klämtning, tull, klämta
The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.
www.brainytranslation.com /translations/to/toll371139.html   (33 words)

  
 Toll Violations
Toll violation civil penalty assessments are sent to individuals that failed to pay the appropriate toll at any location.
A picture is taken of the vehicle license plate and the toll violation civil penalty assessment is mailed to the registered owner/driver of the vehicle.
If a customer does receive a toll violation civil penalty assessment, it is imperative that they call the Customer Service Center locally at (303) 537-3470, option 2 or toll free at 1-888-946-3470 immediately to get their account updated and avoid further toll violation civil penalty assessments being sent.
www.e-470.com /DesktopDefault.aspx?tabindex=10&tabid=108   (974 words)

  
 Toll Gas & Welding Supply - Welcome!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Toll has all types of bulk gases, and rare and specialty gases.
Toll services all major brands of welders and plasma cutters.
Toll has rental equipment for contractors homeowners, by the day, week or month - click!
www.tollgas.com   (117 words)

  
 San Francisco Examiner: News
Supervisor Jake McGoldrick, chair of the San Francisco Transportation Authority, will ask the agency to study a downtown toll zone -- whereby drivers would need to purchase a daily pass to drive in The City's most congested streets -- as a potential solution to the Municipal Transportation Agency's woeful budget problems.
The study would determine the size of the toll zone, how much money it would generate and how much congestion it could eliminate.
McGoldrick's proposal comes at a politically opportune time, with Muni considering a controversial 25 cent raise in fares, and transit activists mounting an increasingly vocal campaign to shift Muni's budget difficulties away from the people who ride the buses.
sfexaminer.com /articles/2005/02/15/news/20050215_ne01_toll.txt   (1094 words)

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