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===Toll roads in the United States=== {{see also|:Category:Pre-freeway turnpikes in the United States}} In the eastern United States of the 18th and 19th century, hundreds of private turnpikes were created to facilitate travel between towns and cities, typically outside built-up areas. 19th-century [[plank road]]s were usually operated as toll roads. One of the first US motor roads, the [[Long Island Motor Parkway]] (which opened on October 10, 1908) was built by William Kissam Vanderbilt II, the great-grandson of [[Cornelius Vanderbilt]]. The road was closed in 1938 when it was taken over by the state of New York in lieu of back taxes.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/automobiles/12LIMP.html | work=The New York Times | title=A 100-Year-Old Dream: A Road Just for Cars | first=Phil | last=Patton | date=October 12, 2008 | access-date=March 27, 2010 | url-status=live | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081209062841/http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/automobiles/12LIMP.html | archive-date=December 9, 2008 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=1249017&site_id=1#import|title=BBS.keyhole.com|access-date=September 19, 2014|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090922145434/http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=1249017&site_id=1#import|archive-date=September 22, 2009}}</ref>
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