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turnpike

1. (between the mid-16th and late 19th centuries)
a. gates or some other barrier set across a road to prevent passage until a toll had been paid
b. a road on which a turnpike was operated
2. US a motorway for use of which a toll is charged
Collins Discovery Encyclopedia, 1st edition © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

turnpike

[′tərn‚pīk]
(civil engineering)
A toll expressway.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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Off-turnpike projects are located within the 10-county area adjacent to the turnpike and are deemed complementary to the turnpike.
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Key factors supporting the rating are the turnpike's strong financial performance, experienced management, low per-mile toll costs and support from the Florida Department of Transportation.
The information contained in TEAMS is accessed through a map-driven interface--a virtual turnpike--that allows Turnpike Enterprise staff to locate an individual asset such as a sign, building, or section of pavement as they navigate around an interactive desktop map.
"Florida's Turnpike Enterprise is the second largest revenue generator for the State of Florida so it is vital we have a proven and innovative solution that is completely scalable, has industry-leading performance and allow for network growth for the long road ahead," said Bob Hartmann, director for the Tolls Data Center.
The 1000 kW MTU Detroit Diesel generators will be installed at eight service plazas, with three additional units placed at the Florida Highway Patrol and Florida Turnpike Enterprises headquarters, also along the turnpike.
At the outset of the project, a team from Florida's Turnpike Enterprise and PBS&J were assembled to work together at the Turnpike Enterprise headquarters in Ocoee, Fla.
This jagged rocky outcropping, which the Turnpike's eastern spur uses as a stepping stone over the marshes known as the Meadowlands, is the only natural break from the flat lowlands for miles.
The first piece of our public-goods story is the nearly universal and well-documented poverty of the turnpikes.(14) Of the Middle Atlantic states, Durrenberger [1931, 112] says, "[considered] from the standpoint of dividends, turnpike stocks were exceedingly poor investments," and of the many turnpikes of New England, Taylor [1934, 266] says, "it is doubtful whether more than five or six paid their proprietors even reasonably well." Though information from the period is fragmentary, Taylor [1934, 281] finds that turnpike dividends in New England were far below those of other enterprises:
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