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...almost nobody agrees on how to pay for them. While the argument rages, Texas has gone ahead and devised something new: the nation's first privately owned and privately financed modern toll roads. This week the Texas Turnpike Co. will start constructing a 223-mile, four-lane thruway from the Dallas area to Houston, at a cost of $140 million. At the same time the Sam Houston Toll Road Corp. will start building the first leg (Dallas-Waco, 83 miles) of its $140 million. 246-mile Dallas-San Antonio Thruway. The two corporations, franchised as nonprofit public utilities...
...cost of the Thruway is imposing: an estimated $962 million-or about $1,600,000 a mile-mostly financed by bond issues. But by 1960 New York expects to be collecting $36,560,000 in tolls a year from an estimated 70 to 90 million cars. The main attraction is neither trout nor scenery but the simple fact that a motorist staying within the 60-m.p.h...
What makes the Thruway remarkable is not its length but its good-sense planning. Following the historic route from New York up the Hudson to Albany, then west through the Mohawk Valley to Buffalo, it passes within 20 miles of 85% of the state's 15 million residents. Spurs to the Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey turnpikes, Garden State Parkway, the Pennsylvania state line and Niagara Falls will add 137 miles and make it the best integrated of all toll roads. The spurs and a smoothly planned system of interchanges will also help overcome the vexing problems of entry...
Fish Are Jumping. The New York Thruway Authority is doing what it can to make sure the big road is also the best run and most handsome of American turnpikes. It has authorized 27 rest and dining stations along the way, and will regulate them with an iron hand. Sample rules: a cup of coffee will mean exactly seven ounces and will cost 10? a frankfurter must weigh at least one-ninth of a pound and be served with a choice of relish and mustard; authorized repair garages must provide "comfortable accommodations" for stranded drivers to wait while mechanics tinker...
...Thruway feature is unique: a stream full of plump trout, which runs down the center mall near Manchester...