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Show Toll Roads Are Gaining Favor Pay Gates Increasing Since World War End TOLL ROADS, which died I bankrupt's death as canals and railroads burgeoned, are returninj to America. By the end ot thii year, motorists will pay to usi nearly 1,000 miles of turnpikes, ex pressways, parkways or freewayi ("free" meaning trucks and busei are allowed). New York City's landscaped sub urban arteries and Connecticut'i spectacular Merritt Parkway pu toll gates on modern highways ii the 1930's. But it was the 160-mile mountain-tunneled western portioi of the Pennsylvania Turnpike opened in 1940, which proved tht possibility of financing new super highways by future tolls. Without red lights, without in tersections, without sharp curvei or grades, gleaming double ribboni of concrete or blacktop slan straight across hillside and guDy Teamsters who drove sway-bot tomed Conestoga wagons down th Lancaster Pike 150 years ago woult little recognize the juggernauts passenger and freight, which whim over these speedways. When World War II ended, thi rush for new toll roads began Maine built a 44-mile toll road fron Kittery to Portland, bypassing U. S 1, as the first section in a proposei 400-mile turnpike to Canada. A H mile toll link across the foot 4 New Hampshire followed. |