toll gates
Highway fee stations
Toll gates are barriers across a road that open only after payment, used to collect fees for road maintenance or as a revenue source.
They appear on turnpikes, bridges, and private roads.
The term extends to any checkpoint where passage requires payment: We hit three toll gates on the drive to the city.
Modern toll gates often use electronic systems that charge accounts automatically.
- ticket boothSales point for admission
- barrierObstruction preventing passage
- highwayMajor road for travel
- turnpikeFee-charging highway
- fareTransport payment
coins · exact change · plaza · checkpoint · crossing · pay station · bridge · tunnel · open road · congestion · rush hour · EZ-Pass · transponder · fast lane · lane · ramp · commute · fee
- security gatesturnstiles, mantraps
- road tollsturnpikes, E-ZPass, EZ Pass, exact change
- bordersborder, boundary, border crossing, national borders, boundary line
- Stagecoachstagecoach, coachmen, coach horses, relay stations, way stations