Plank road
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A plank road is a road composed of wooden planks or puncheon logs, as an efficient technology for traversing soft, marshy, or otherwise difficult ground. Plank roads have been built since antiquity, a
Diagram of a plank road
A wood mat road in British Columbia, used for temporary access over soft ground
A plank road on one of the Pribilof Islands, Alaska
Toll road
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A toll road, also known as a tollway, or a turnpike or pike, is a public or private road for which a fee is assessed for passage. It is a form of road pricing typically implemented to help recoup the
Plank road
…Canadian province of Ontario as well as the Northeast and Midwest of the United States in the first half of the 19th century. They were often built by turnpike companies. The Wittmoor bog trackway is the name given to each of two historic plank roads or boardwalks, trackway No. I being discovered in 1898 and…
The 12-lane New Jersey Turnpike in the U.S. is the most heavily traveled toll road in the world, carrying hundreds of thousands of automobiles daily
A table of tolls in pre-decimal currency for the College Road, Dulwich, London SE21 tollgate
Toll bar in Romania, 1877
Entrance fees collection in a local community road checkpoint near Bagan (Myanmar)