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Many of the earliest expressways of the northeastern quadrant of the United States were built as toll roads for lack of other means of financing them before the establishment of the Interstate Highway System that used taxes on motor fuels as revenue for the construction of toll-free highways. All of the New York-Chicago toll road system was built before the Interstate funding was available. All of these highways remain toll roads. By 1956 one could travel from New York to Chicago through varied terrain with comparative ease on safe roads free of crossroads, railroad grade crossings, stoplights, driveways, at-grade intersections, or stop signs, stopping only to pay tolls, typically at termini and at state lines. Built before most other long-distance expressways, they are essentially as good as the newer expressways. The completion of the free section of Interstate 80 in New Jersey , Pennsylvania , and eastern Ohio (" Keystone Shortway " in part) created a shortcut across some thinly-populated, rough terrain that allowed motorists seeking to go between New York and Chicago to miss much of the old toll-road system between the two great cities on a toll-free expressway. The most direct route between Chicago and New York still includes the section of this system between Chicago and Youngstown, Ohio. |
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