Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 12:37:20 -0400
Reply-To: robert shawn feller <carboncow@GMAIL.COM>
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From: robert shawn feller <carboncow@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: tolls (was RE: I-90 Freeway help)
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looks like the concept of "freeway" was changed after inception to account
for toll roads, from wikipedia:
Interstate Highway System
By 1956, most limited-access highways in the eastern United States were toll
roads. In that year, the federal Interstate
Highway<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_Highway>program 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
rebuilding of a toll facility using Interstate Highway Program funding
resulted in the removal of existing tolls. This occurred in
Virginia<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia>on Interstate
64 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_64> at the Hampton Roads
Bridge-Tunnel <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hampton_Roads_Bridge-Tunnel>when
a second parallel roadway to the regional 1958 bridge-tunnel was
completed in 1976.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Florida_Freeway.jpg> [image:
Enlarge]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Florida_Freeway.jpg>
Since the completion of the initial portion of the interstate
highway<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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,
new road projects have been completed with public-private partnerships
funded by tolls, such as the Pocahontas
Parkway<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocahontas_Parkway>near Richmond,
Virginia <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richmond%2C_Virginia>, which features
a costly high level bridge over the shipping channel of the James
River<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_River_%28Virginia%29>and
connects Interstate
95 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_95> with Interstate 295
(Virginia) <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_295_%28Virginia%29> to
the south of the city.
On 6/27/06, Loren Busch <starwagen@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> RE: Tolls
> Joy is right, the term Freeway comes from the fact that such highways are
> free as opposed to being Tollways.
> And an interesting story about tolls from here in the Pugent Sound area.
> After the tolls on two bridges (that I travel frequently in my Westy, VC)
> had paid for the bonds used to finance them the State of Washington wanted
> to continue the tolls, still wanted the money. The courts said "No",
> can't
> do that. and the tolls were removed. One of those bridges was the
> infamous
> Narrows Bridge, the 'Galloping Gerty' that everyone has seen the film of
> falling apart in the wind a few months after it was built. It was
> replaced
> but now, many years later, they are building a second bridge parallel to
> it
> to handle the increased traffic. It to will be a toll bridge but how much
> do you want to bet that politicians worded the legislation that created
> it
> such that the tolls will be there forever?
>
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