toll gate
Highway fee station
A toll gate is a barrier across a road where travelers must pay a fee to pass.
Historically these were physical gates that opened after payment; today the term covers any checkpoint—manned booth or electronic sensor—where tolls are collected: We slowed down at the toll gate.
Also spelled as one word: tollgate.
- pay stationCoin-operated public telephone
- barrierObstruction preventing passage
- highwayMajor road for travel
- turnpikeFee-charging highway
- coinsMetal money units
exact change · booth · ticket booth · attendant · plaza · ramp · ticket · fare · crossing · bridge · checkpoint · pike · road · highway exit · passage · fee · token · EZ-Pass
- barrierswalls, wall, fences, fence, barrier
- gatesgatepost, floodgate, portcullis, lychgate, torii
- medieval townmarket square, town square, town wall, town walls, cobblestone
- entrancesdoor, doorway, entrance, entry, front door
- toll barriers
- tollsE-ZPass, off-peak rate, congestion charge, ticket system
restriction vs. openness
toll gateopen highway