Pennsylvania's last old-style turnpike operated until 1930 (it's now PA 23, Lancaster to Leacock): http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1955&dat=19300417&id=6-sxAAAAIBAJ&sjid=-eEFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2138,4211384
The Pennsylvania Turnpike opened in 1940.
Were there any toll roads (not simple crossings) that spanned the gap? Or did the U.S. have a decade without toll roads?
Mount Wilson Toll Road, here in SoCal. I believe that lasted 'til 1936.
so... toll roads in the US, 1936-1940?
Weren't the Long Island parkways tolled?
I also think the Pikes Peak Highway and 17-Mile Drive must have been tolled during the entirety of this period.
Quote from: J N Winkler on August 29, 2013, 08:03:55 PM
Weren't the Long Island parkways tolled?
I also think the Pikes Peak Highway and 17-Mile Drive must have been tolled during the entirety of this period.
now that I think about it, the Mt. Washington Auto Road is tolled, no? and has been since its inception?
as for toll roads that aren't spurs like the Mt. Wilson, Mt. Washington, and Pikes Peak roads... or a scenic byway like 17-Mile Drive. for an honest to goodness "pay the toll because you need to get to Point B" road, I also wonder about Long Island's parkways.
Thanks to Public Roads, this topic is almost a yawn: http://archive.org/stream/publicroads12offi
Let's restrict it to highways intended for through traffic, since otherwise there are a bunch.
Quote from: J N Winkler on August 29, 2013, 08:03:55 PM
Weren't the Long Island parkways tolled?
Mmm, yes. But that seems to have happened in the 1950s.
But the LIMP (and Sears Point Toll Road) operated until 1938. The Merritt was tolled in 1939, leaving only one year to find something to cover.