Ticket system
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A ticket system toll road, as opposed to a flat-rate toll road, is utilized by some state toll road or highway agencies that allows a motorist, who enters the highway at an exit, to pay a toll rate based on the number of miles traveled to their destination exit. First employed on the Pennsylvania Turnpike when it opened in 1940, it has been utilized on lengthy toll highways in which the exits are spread out over a distance on an average of 7 to 10 miles per exit. Flat-rate highways, on the other hand, have mainline toll booths placed at equal distances on the highway, with ramps, depending on the direction of travel, having either coin or token-drop baskets or toll barriers or no barriers at all.
[edit] Highways That Use the Ticket System
- Massachusetts Turnpike — Between New York State Line and Exits-14/15.
- New Jersey Turnpike — Entire length including Pearl Harbor and Newark Bay Extensions
- Pennsylvania Turnpike — Between Warrendale Main Line Barrier and Delaware River Bridge interchange on East-West Main Line and between Mid-County and Wyoming Valley interchanges on Northeast Extension.
- New York State Thruway — Between New York Route 17 and Buffalo (including Berkshire Section) and between Buffalo and Pennsylvania State Line (Erie Section).
- Kansas Turnpike — Entire length
- Ohio Turnpike — Entire length
- Indiana Toll Road — Between Portage toll barrier and Ohio state line.
- Florida's Turnpike — Between Lantana and Kissimmee.
