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1. It is not more than fifty years ago, that some of the counties in the neighbourhood of London petitioned the parliament against the extension of the turnpike roads into the remoter counties
2. The most logical alternative path would be the Old 40 Trail which had been built over the remains of the first turnpike in the early 1800’s
3. A great revenue, half a million, perbaps {Since publishing the two first editions of this book, I have got good reasons to believe that all the turnpike tolls levied in Great Britain do not procduce a neat revenue that amounts to half a million ; a sum which, under the management of government, would not be sufficient to keep, in repair five of the principal roads in the kingdom}, it has been pretended, might in this manner be gained, without laying any new burden upon the people; and the turnpike roads might be made to contribute to the general expense of the state, in the same manner as the post-office does at present
4. But the turnpike tolls, being continually augmented in this manner, instead of facilitating the inland commerce of the country, as at present, would soon become a very great incumbrance upon it
5. But as the turnpike toll raises the price of goods in proportion to their weight and not to their value, it is chiefly paid by the consumers of coarse and bulky, not by those of precious and light commodities
6. Thirdly, If government should at any time neglect the reparation of the high-roads, it would be still more difficult, than it is at present, to compel the proper application of any part of the turnpike tolls
7. If the meanness and poverty of the trustees of turnpike roads render it sometimes difficult, at present, to oblige them to repair their wrong ; their wealth and greatness would render it ten times more so in the case which is here supposed
8. In France, however, the great post-roads, the roads which make the communication between the principal towns of the kingdom, are in general kept in good order; and, in some provinces, are even a good deal superior to the greater part of the turnpike roads of England
9. Of this kind are the duties, which, in French, are called peages, which in old Saxon times were called the duties of passage, and which seem to have been originally established for the same purpose as our turnpike tolls, or the tolls upon our canals and navigable rivers, for the maintenance of the road or of the navigation
10. If the turnpike tolls of Great Britain should ever become one of the resources of government, we may learn, by the example of many other nations, what would probably be the consequence
11. Vince Lombardi’s service area over on the Turnpike
12. Tuesday, September 11th, I had free breakfast in hotel, loaded my 1992 Honda which had 125k miles, and got right onto nearby Pennsylvania Turnpike headed west
13. So when the PTP ended, I just got on the Ohio Turnpike and drove NW as fast as I could
14. turnpike, when suddenly there is a traffic jam ahead? A surge of
15. I was there and I can recall driving down the Florida Turnpike and seeing homes across the road and collection booths up in the trees almost a mile away
16. The Thruway was boring but it was the quickest way to get to the Turnpike in Massachusetts and my sister’s house
17. I entered the turnpike and picked up my ticket for the toll road
18. It wasn't long before I exited the turnpike and got onto I-495, the outer beltway around Boston
19. On the Pennsylvania Turnpike in the rain, she lost control of the car in Bedford and all three perished
20. the PA Turnpike which turned into Ohio Turnpike it would've
21. there were lots of cameras and pay tolls on the turnpike and
22. and pay tolls that ran parallel with the turnpike that would
23. truck stop on the PA Turnpike discovered Horace Burns'
24. Levi listened to the news on the car radio as he drove south on the Maine Turnpike, heading for his meeting in Boston
25. When he’d reached the toll plaza at the southern terminus of the Maine Turnpike, shortly before the New Hampshire border, Levi stopped and handed a twenty dollar bill to the collector, assuming that would cover whatever he owed
26. By the city's quadrangular houses--in log huts, camping with lumber-men, Along the ruts of the turnpike, along the dry gulch and rivulet bed, Weeding my onion-patch or hosing rows of carrots and parsnips,
27. “I going to head west on the Turnpike,” he added
28. The turnpike lamp was a blur, quite out of the lamp's usual place apparently, and its rays looked solid substance on the fog
29. We were noticing this, and saying how that the mist rose with a change of wind from a certain quarter of our marshes, when we came upon a man, slouching under the lee of the turnpike house
30. Finally, I went out into the air, with a dim perception that there was something unwonted in the conduct of the sunshine, and found that I had slumberously got to the turnpike without having taken any account of the road
31. But his greatest trials were in the churchyard, which had the appearance of a primeval forest, with a kind of small ecclesiastical wash-house on one side, and a turnpike gate on the other
32. Wopsle in a comprehensive black cloak, being descried entering at the turnpike, the gravedigger was admonished in a friendly way, "Look out! Here's the undertaker a coming, to see how you're a getting on with your work!" I believe it is well known in a constitutional country that Mr
33. And this time, traffic is at a standstill, logjammed as far as the eye can see, traffic down to a single, narrow lane on the turnpike
34. Five minutes later, I see the hearse approaching the turnpike barricade, officers removing the barriers to allow it to leave
35. He reaches out now through the solid walls of the stairshaft and over the eight million stories and the harbor and the landfills to where she’d be by now, a pair of headlights zooming south on the Jersey Turnpike
36. I dropped my portmanteau at the turnpike when I got down—change of linen—genuine—honor bright—more than fronts and wristbands; and with this suit of mourning, straps and everything, I should do you credit among the nobs here
37. He was satisfied with his present success, and by three o'clock that day he had taken up his portmanteau at the turnpike and mounted the coach, relieving Mr
38. Then he headed down to the Massachusetts Turnpike in his new Lexus
39. TWO HOURS LATER, the auction was complete, and Michael Sullivan was driving on the Massachusetts Turnpike in his Lexus
40. Only once did I perceive a human being, and that was at the intersection of our crossroad with the wide, white turnpike which cuts each cultivated district longitudinally at its exact center
41. The land is highly cultivated, good buildings, turnpike roads, bridges, and other expensive improvement, indicate the wealth of our citizens, and the prosperity of the country
42. We have now to add, (and the fact is, indeed, mentioned in Cleaveland's Mineralogy,) that another piece has been recently found half a mile west of the Hartford turnpike road, opposite the town of Wallingford, and twelve miles from New-Haven
43. of the Turnpike leading from Saybrook to Middletown, on the first road on the right hand above the turnpike gate, near the house of the widow Pratt
