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Title: Widest toll plazas
Post by: tribar on July 16, 2015, 07:09:22 PM
What's the widest toll booth you have ever seen?

For me, it is the tollbooth on the Tri State Tollway south of the Hillside Strangler 
Title: Re: Widest toll plazas
Post by: Zeffy on July 16, 2015, 07:10:10 PM
Quote from: tribar on July 16, 2015, 07:09:22 PM
What's the widest toll booth you have ever seen?

I'm pretty sure I counted 15 lanes on some of the Garden State Parkway's toll plazas. I don't remember where it was exactly, but I believe it was around East Orange.
Title: Re: Widest toll plazas
Post by: sandwalk on July 16, 2015, 07:17:09 PM
Quote from: Zeffy on July 16, 2015, 07:10:10 PM
I'm pretty sure I counted 15 lanes on some of the Garden State Parkway's toll plazas. I don't remember where it was exactly, but I believe it was around East Orange.

The widest ones I've ever seen was on the Indiana Toll Road, just east of of the Illinois border.  I believe that one has 16 booth lanes. Also on the ITR, where I-80 joins I-90 outside of Chicago, there are 15 toll booth lanes.

EDIT: Come to think of it, the eastern end of the Chicago Skyway has about 20 booth lanes (though the east and west bound areas aren't all connected).
Title: Re: Widest toll plazas
Post by: Pete from Boston on July 16, 2015, 07:22:42 PM
New Jersey Turnpike Exit 11 (Garden State Parkway) has 26 lanes total.
Title: Re: Widest toll plazas
Post by: iBallasticwolf2 on July 16, 2015, 07:36:21 PM
I think the widest toll plaza in the world is in India and has 32 toll booth lanes.
Title: Re: Widest toll plazas
Post by: tribar on July 16, 2015, 09:58:33 PM
Quote from: iBallasticwolf2 on July 16, 2015, 07:36:21 PM
I think the widest toll plaza in the world is in India and has 32 toll booth lanes.

Do you know where it is?
Title: Re: Widest toll plazas
Post by: iBallasticwolf2 on July 16, 2015, 10:02:15 PM
Quote from: tribar on July 16, 2015, 09:58:33 PM
Quote from: iBallasticwolf2 on July 16, 2015, 07:36:21 PM
I think the widest toll plaza in the world is in India and has 32 toll booth lanes.

Do you know where it is?

Not really but a quick google search made me find the wikipedia page on "Delhi Gurgaon Expressway". Here is the picture for it- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delhi_Gurgaon_Expressway#/media/File:Delhi_Gurgaon_Toll_Gate.jpg

I proceeded to find out it is the second largest Toll plaza in Asia so that means there is one larger than 32 lanes.  :wow:
Title: Re: Widest toll plazas
Post by: rbt48 on July 16, 2015, 10:50:12 PM
I would have guessed the Bellevue Bridge Highway 370 toll booth for the Missouri River crossing from Bellevue NE into Iowa.
Title: Re: Widest toll plazas
Post by: MikeTheActuary on July 16, 2015, 11:09:02 PM
There is a reference to the Dehli Guragon Expressway toll plaza being expanded to 59 lanes (http://www.metroroadsystems.com/Metro_TMS_HTMS_Presentation.pdf)
Title: Re: Widest toll plazas
Post by: Pink Jazz on July 17, 2015, 12:54:45 AM
I know the widest in Puerto Rico is the Fort Buchanan toll plaza on PR-22.
Title: Re: Widest toll plazas
Post by: roadman65 on July 17, 2015, 02:49:22 AM
Quote from: Pete from Boston on July 16, 2015, 07:22:42 PM
New Jersey Turnpike Exit 11 (Garden State Parkway) has 26 lanes total.
That plaza I think is wider than the mainline plazas at 18W and 1.  Rare case of when a ramp toll has more lanes than a mainline does.