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“For comparison purposes, consider the old toll booth approach at the tollway or turnpike 30 years ago versus the Zip Cash or Toll Tag systems we see today,” Fleming says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026

Roger Hargreaves, director of Glossop Heritage Trust, said it was built as a turnpike - or toll road - to connect Sheffield with Manchester.

From BBC ● Feb. 2, 2025

The bugs are still so plentiful, the trained eye can spot them clinging to the trunks of tree of heaven while driving on the turnpike.

From National Geographic ● Aug. 31, 2023

According to troopers, Davis lost control of his Tesla sedan and it collided with the parked pickup truck on the side of the turnpike.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 5, 2023

"Yes, of course. Just be careful. Traffic's terrible this time of day. And the rain will make things worse, especially on the turnpike."

From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins

Internal improvements, like roads and turnpikes, received investment to control the vast territory beyond the coasts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2025

Crashes, however, are far more likely on surface streets than on the highway: One study from the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation showed that crashes were five times as common on local roads as on turnpikes.

From New York Times ● Jan. 17, 2023

Like Gump, a good-hearted simpleton, who travels through milestones in US history - the Vietnam War, the Watergate scandal - Chaddha's life takes him through the cultural and political turnpikes of 20th-Century India.

From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2022

That’s reasonable in the Eastern half of the country, the land of turnpikes and truck stops.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 20, 2020

“All the squares formerly built up solidly were now so many black excavations, while the streets had the appearance of raised turnpikes intersecting each other on a level prairie.”

From "The Great Fire" by Jim Murphy