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A tiny glass confessional where your money goes to die for the sin of driving.
means A small booth or station beside a road, bridge, or tunnel where a fee is collected for passing through.
from A plain compound of "toll" and "booth." "Toll" comes from Old English "toll" — a tax or payment — itself borrowed early from Latin "tolonium" (a tollhouse), tracing back through Greek "telos," meaning a tax or charge. "Booth" arrived later from Old Norse "buth," a temporary dwelling or stall, related to words meaning "to dwell." So the word literally stacks a tax onto a little hut: a hut where the tax lives.
- first toll
- Ancient roads charged tolls over 2,700 years ago
- vanishing breed
- Electronic tags are killing manual booths off
- loneliest job
- Workers sat in a 6-foot box for hours
- exact change
- Forgotten coins triggered horns and pure road rage
- E-ZPass watch
- Toll records have been subpoenaed in divorce cases
jersey garden state parkway — new jersey's 117-mile turnpike with tolls every few miles, opened 1951
george washington bridge — tolled crossing between new jersey and new york, collects $17 per car since 1931
illinois toll roads — chicago area tollways including 294 and 90, major gridlock points with electronic collection