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Article: Pennsylvania Turnpike ushered in new generation super highways.
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- Public Works
- Article date:
- January 1, 1994
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MORE than 50 years ago the Pennsylvania Turnpike began changing the motoring landscape of this nation. America's first modern toll road entered service on October 1, 1940 with design concepts that inspired a new generation of super highways. Ensuing expansions to the original 160-mile long segment continued to demonstrate the viability of revenue bonds to finance toll roads.
The Keystone State has always been a trailblazer in surface transportation experiments. In one of the earliest examples, the Commonwealth developed a log-surfaced, 62-mile long turnpike--the nation's first--in 1794. This was followed by a mule-drawn system of canals and rail lines. It was ...