jcoulter wrote:
> For many of us in the 50's Freeway certainly meant as opposed to
> the tollways that one encountered in NewYork New jersey and
> elsewhere in the east. The west was a whole new place where the
> fast limited access ways were not only superhighways, but FREE!
That's an Eastern point of view, not ours. Toll roads, obviously not
gratis, are freeways, i.e., ways free of cross traffic. The primary
difference 'tween our freeways and theirs is the tolls.
We had some toll roads in Century XIX (Tejon Pass is probably the
best known) but I think none 'til the late Twentieth when one invaded
the SouthLand.
Of course I had heard of "turnpikes" but didn't really know what they
were until I hit the Will Rogers on m'way to New York in the early
'60s. I didn't get it (still don't). Those states with toll roads
have gasoline taxes similar to ours. Until recently, those taxes paid
for our roads' construction and maintenance. Of late, however, the
roads aren't as well maintained as they were. I don't know where the
money goes. No, it's not Arnold's fault; the problem precedes his
Administration.
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