Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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EVERYBODY agrees that the U.S. needs more and better roads, but 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...
Double Play. In Old Saybrook, Conn., highway police stopped and questioned Motorist Edward R. Bouthiette for failure to pay a bridge toll, arrested him when they found that he was driving a stolen car, returned it to Rightful Owner Chester Jackson and arrested him, too, for ignoring six parking tickets...
...size, cried New York Traffic Commissioner T. T. Wiley, would be "sheer madness." Auto makers have "gone on a horsepower jag . . . as insidious as dope." Added Denver's Traffic Engineer Jack Bruce: "We're running 300-h.p. cars on 50-h.p. streets." But despite the highway toll, the cold fact is that safety on the road is greater now than it was before World War II. In 1937, when horsepower was pushing the 60s, there were 39,643 traffic fatalities in the U.S., or 13.3 deaths for every 10,000 passenger vehicles on the road...
SUPER-HIGHWAY TRAVEL is growing so fast that the three-year-old, 118-mile New Jersey Turnpike is already obsolete. The $255 million toll road is now carrying the traffic load (102,000 cars on busy days) originally estimated for 1981, will have to be widened from four to six lanes along most of its length, at a cost of $26 million...
...time it gets to Congress in January. General Lucius B. Clay, boss of the President's advisory committee, thinks that the first goal was too high, will recommend a $26 billion program to be financed by federal revenue bonds over a 30-year period instead of toll charges...