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  Toll road - Wikinfo
Parliament passed the upkeep of bridges to local settlements or the containing county under the 1531 Statue of Bridges and in 1555 the care of roads was similarly devolved to the parishes as statute labour.
The first turnpike road, whereby travellers paid tolls to be used for road upkeep, was authorised in 1663 for a section of the Great North Road in Hertfordshire.
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.
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  Toll road - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A toll road, tollway, turnpike, pike or tollpike is a road on which a toll authority collects a fee for use.
The Coastal Road is a short (under 10 kilometers long) urban expressway in the south of the Manila metropolitan area.
Well-known roads are the A1, which goes from Lisbon to Porto and the A2, from Almada to the Algarve, or the A6, from the A2 at Marateca to the Spanish border, close to Badajoz.
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 Watling Street   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The street was an important part of the road network that the Romans constructed during their occupation of Britain.
It was brought back into use in the early 19th century by Thomas Telford as a Tollpike road for use by mail coaches bringing mail to and from Ireland.
The stretch of the road between London and Dover is today known as the A2, and the stretch between London and Holyhead is today known as the A5, although some of the original route near London has become part of the M1 motorway.
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 Toll Road info here at en.88of100d.info   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
A charge road, tollway, turnpike, pike or tollpike is a road on which a charge authority collects a cost for use.
The Coastal Road is a terse (under 10 kilometers long) urban expressway in the south of the Manila metropolitan area.
Well-known roads are the A1, which goes from Lisbon to Porto & the A2, from Almada to the Algarve, or the A6, from the A2 at Marateca to the Spanish border, to Badajoz.
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 : : Treasurehunting.tv - : Watling Street : :
Watling Street was a Roman road which went from Dover on the southeast coast of England and is generally believed to have terminated at Viroconium (now Wroxeter in Shropshire).
The road was finally re-paved in the early 19th century by Thomas Telford who brought it back into use as a tollpike road for use by mail coaches bringing mail to and from Ireland, his road being extended to the port of Holyhead in Wales.
The stretch of the road between London and Dover is today known as the A2, and the stretch between London and Shrewsbury is today known as the A5 (which now continues to Holyhead).
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 Toll road - InfoSearchPoint.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Until the 17th century most roads in England were simple tracks through the earth, the term road indicating no more than a right of passage.
The first turnpike road, whereby travellers paid tolls to be used for road upkeep, was authorised in 1663 for a section of the Great North Road in Hertford.
The system was nver properly reformed but from the 1870s Parliament stopped renewing the acts and roads began to revert to local authorities, the last trust vanished in 1895.
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 Toll road Did You Mean toll   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The first major toll road in the United States was the Lancaster Turnpike, built in the 1790s, within Pennsylvania, connecting Philadelphia and Lancaster.
Other toll roads in Italy are the urban areas of Venice and Florence where tourist buses must pay a fee to enter the city.
Well-known roads are the A1, which goes from Lisbon to Oporto and the A2, from Almada to the Spanish border, close to Badajoz.
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 Toll road   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
SR 417 near Orlando, Florida]] A toll road, turnpike or tollpike is a road on which a toll authority collects a fee for use.
The abiding relic of the English toll roads is the number of houses with names like "Turnpike Cottage", and occasional roadname: Turnpike Lane in north London has given its name to an Underground station Today, the only tolls on roads in the United Kingdom are mainly tolled bridges and tunnels (e.g.
A toll booth being removed from the [[Overseas Highway in Florida (1954); the use of the term freeway is nonstandard]] 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.
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 Wikinfo | Watling Street   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Watling Street was a Roman road which went from Dover on the southeast coast of England to the port town of Holyhead on the Irish Sea coast of Wales via London, Verulamium and the English Midlands.
The road was an important part of the road network that the Romans constructed during their occupation of Britain.
A Watling Street still exists in the City of London, close to Mansion House tube station, though this is unlikely to be on the route of the original Roman road which traversed the River Thames via the first London Bridge.
www.internet-encyclopedia.org /wiki.php?title=Watling_Street   (421 words)

  
 road house   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Event Date: October 24, 1999 A toll road, tollway, turnpike, pike or tollpike is a road on which a toll the fare was paid at a toll house (or toll booth in current terminology).
We write articles on this topic: "road house", and we know we are always ahead of everybody who's dealing with road house.
All road house articles are written by professional specialist who study the road house topic and know, what they are writing about.
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 Extra Credit
It was easily assembled and came ready with one car for traveling and a token for his return.
As he drove along in the little car, he soon found himself daydreaming and paying less attention to the road until he came to a fork.
He turned to the right, which looked oddly like the wrong way and found himself driving along mile after mile past a gray, colorless landscape and the car went slower and slower until it finally stopped and would not budge at all.
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 TOLL ROAD - GoGoSearch.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
road, tollway, turnpike, pike or tollpike is a
Road, is a tolled highway running east-west across the northernmost part of Indiana.
A regional transportation board on Monday voted to begin killing a controversial proposed toll road that would extend through eastern Leon and Wakulla counties.
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 Warwickshire Roman Roads - Warwickshire Web
Map of Roman Roads in Britain link for a map of all the Roman Roads that cross the entire country.
The road may have began as a defensive ditch which was later filled in and converted into a road.
In places the ancient Roman road is still in daily use, and in others it has been used as a base for modern thoroughfares.
www.warwickshire.gov.uk /Web/corporate/pages.nsf/Links/24604763C0DA462D802570DF003530AC   (866 words)

  
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A toll road, tollway, turnpike, pike or tollpike is a road on which a toll authority collects a fee for use.
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U.S. Roads Portal The Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways, commonly called the...
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 Informat.io on Turnpike
In Italy most autostrade (the Italian for Autobahn, or Highways) are toll roads.
In Nevada, over 100 private toll roads were laid out in the decades of the American Civil War, some of them nearly 200 miles long.
An adaptation of military "identification friend or foe" or RFID technology, called electronic toll collection, is lessening the delay incurred in toll collection, and raises hope of eliminating it entirely in the future.
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 Downstairs at NoeHill: The Journal of Louis Bryan
I had been practicing this maneuver on side streets, but I had not yet tried it when a slight misjudgment would dump me in the road to be run over by onrushing traffic, smash me into one of the parked cars, or impale me on the parking meter.
This narrow, twisty back road provided my first real opportunity to seriously test the handling, as it was one 20 MPH curve after another all the way up and all the way down.
And to help us appreciate it, from time to time our hard-earned highway gives us vistas of vehicles on lesser roads huddled in bumper-to-bumper misery and choking in exhaust as they inch, their drivers soaked in sweat and crazed with frustration, to their eventual destinations.
www.noehill.com /downstairs/journal_2004.asp   (7786 words)

  
 Toll road - WNDU-TV: News Story: Crash closes Indiana Toll Road - August 01, 2006   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In June and July, Caltrans is planning overnight lane closures affecting the Bonita Canyon and Bison interchanges to the 73 Toll Road.
A toll gate on the Sayama bypass (Saitama prefectural road 397) in Japan A toll road, tollway, turnpike, pike or tollpike is a road on which a toll
Tolls shot up, he says, when the Chicago Skyway and the Indiana Toll Road were leased, making it more expensive to get to work or move goods.
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 Toll road, - reviewjournal.com -- Opinion - EDITORIAL: Toll roads in Nevada?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
A toll road, tollway, turnpike, pike or tollpike is a road on which a toll Freeways in Taiwan are not exactly toll roads in the sense that toll
The length of toll roads includes sections which may be used toll free Summary of Interstate System (IS) Toll Roads in Operation in the United States.
Toll roads are booming because gas tax revenues are woefully inadequate to pay for constructing and
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 WATLING STREET   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Watling Street A road extending east and west across South Britain.
Beginning at Dover, it ran through Canterbury to London, and thence to Cardigan.
The word is a corruption of Vitellina strata, the paved road of Vitellius, called by the Britons Guetalin.
www.websters-online-dictionary.org /Wa/Watling_Street.html   (535 words)

  
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The Matecumbe Keys toll booth on the Overseas Highway in Florida (1938)In early US history, many individual citizens would gravel nearby stretches of road and collect a fee from people who used that specific stretch.
But there is no movement to do this.
A toll booth being removed from the Overseas Highway in Florida (1954); the use of the term freeway is nonstandardSince 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.
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 Ireland Information Guide , Irish, Counties, Facts, Statistics, Tourism, Culture, How
Watling Street was a Roman road which went from Dover on the southeast coast of England to Wroxeter in Shropshire via London, Verulamium and the English Midlands.
Roman Roads in Britain: section on Watling Street (http://www.ukans.edu/history/index/europe/ancient_rome/E/Gazetteer/Periods/Roman/Topics/Engineering/roads/Britain/.Texts/CODROM/2%2A.html) by Thomas Codrington, published in 1903.
Roman Roads in Britain: section on Watling Street, continued (http://www.ukans.edu/history/index/europe/ancient_rome/E/Gazetteer/Periods/Roman/Topics/Engineering/roads/Britain/.Texts/CODROM/3%2A.html) by Thomas Codrington, published in 1903.
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 Toll Booth Resources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
A toll road, tollway, turnpike or tollpike is a road on which a toll authority collects a fee for use.
Toll: a charge for the use of a particular road, bridge, tunnel or network of roads...
Designed especially for toll roads, the toll booth provides comfort and security for your attendant...
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 Toll - Illinois Tollway   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Manages the approximately 83 miles of toll roads in Harris County that includes both the Sam Houston Tollway and the Hardy Toll Road.
A toll road, turnpike or tollpike is a road on which a toll authority collects a fee for A toll road in the United States is often called a turnpike.
Central information point for the Birmingham Northern Relief Road including news and route information.
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 info: toll - death katrina toll | death hurricane katrina toll | toll brother | toll free |   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
A toll road, tollway, turnpike, pike or tollpike is a road on which a toll authority collects...
permit a free movement along our toll road.
Average toll rates on the Illinois Tollway are 2.6...
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