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“For comparison purposes, consider the old toll booth approach at the tollway or turnpike 30 years ago versus the Zip Cash or Toll Tag systems we see today,” Fleming says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026

"He was driving along the New Jersey turnpike when it came on his car radio," said Love.

From BBC ● Apr. 7, 2024

The bugs are still so plentiful, the trained eye can spot them clinging to the trunks of tree of heaven while driving on the turnpike.

From National Geographic ● Aug. 31, 2023

Fragmented views of New Jersey’s skylines, shipping ports, salt marshes and infrastructure, like its infamous turnpike, conflate and realign in dizzying mosaics.

From New York Times ● Nov. 14, 2022

On a Wednesday I took off work time, packed a bag, and drove up the turnpike to 1-75I had changed the oil in my car, and had the brake pads replaced and the engine tuned.

From "Hole in My Life" by Jack Gantos

Internal improvements, like roads and turnpikes, received investment to control the vast territory beyond the coasts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2025

Americans, Ralph Waldo Emerson remarked shortly after the Civil War, were “fanatics in freedom; they hate tolls, taxes, turnpikes, banks, hierarchies, governors, yea, almost laws.”

From New York Times ● Dec. 12, 2022

Like Gump, a good-hearted simpleton, who travels through milestones in US history - the Vietnam War, the Watergate scandal - Chaddha's life takes him through the cultural and political turnpikes of 20th-Century India.

From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2022

In the 19th century, every state delegated eminent domain power to private companies to produce what were then called “internal improvements” — canals, turnpikes, railroads.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 18, 2020

“All the squares formerly built up solidly were now so many black excavations, while the streets had the appearance of raised turnpikes intersecting each other on a level prairie.”

From "The Great Fire" by Jim Murphy