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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

"He was driving along the New Jersey turnpike when it came on his car radio," said Love.

From BBC ● Apr. 7, 2024

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

In addition to carrying traffic into Manhattan, the turnpike is, like Route 710 in Los Angeles, an artery heavily trafficked by freight trucks carrying goods between ports and warehouses in the area.

From New York Times ● Jan. 6, 2023

She crossed over the dry moat with its cruel iron spikes and made her way up the narrow turnpike stair, but when she reached the door of her bedchamber she could not bear to enter.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

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