Are they still all in weird, different quantities, and collected via the ever efficient throw your change into a bucket that the old lady in front of me can’t ever seem to manage to hit method?
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Checking the crossings of the Columbia between OR and WA reveals quite a few former toll bridges:
The Dalles Bridge.
Sam Hill Memorial Bridge.
Umatilla Bridge. This one surprised me since it’s for I-82.
But Hood River Bridge and Bridge of the Gods are still toll. The latter had its tolls increased supposedly due to increased traffic after the movie Wild came out. It is old and rickety and I think the tolls there keep the traffic down. OTOH, there’s no excuse for Hood River Bridge to still have tolls.
The Joshua L. Chamberlain Bridge over the Penobscot River connecting Bangor and Brewer, Maine, charged fifteen or 25 cents toll for several years after it was built in the late '50s or early '60s.
Montreal’s Champlain Bridge used to have tolls.
So we’ll use to have a Champlain Bridge too. The thing’s falling apart and is being replaced.
Wikipedia has a list of former toll roads in the U.S.
Ohio had a referendum about removing tolls; people decided that since it was mostly people from other states paying the toll, keep it. NY Thruway was paid for years ago but state needed the revenue to maintain it. I don’t live in either state now, don’t know what present circumstances are.
In the state of Minnesota, they are NOT tolerated. There are no toll roads anywhere in the state. Occasionally some will be suggested (usually by a company that is offering to operate it after it is built), but the reaction from citizens (voters) is so negative that no such project has ever been done.
(There is a MNPass system where drivers can pay a fee to use the carpool lane even without passengers. But it’s just a single lane of an existing road. And even this is controversial: ‘special lanes for rich people to drive on, built with the tax money from mostly poor people.’)
our experience here in the UK is that bridges and roads get built with tolls to pay for them. They say that once the costs have been recovered they will become toll-free. That doesn’t happen.
A cite is the Dartford Crossing - the most downstream Thames crossing which is now two tunnels and a suspension bridge. It was supposed to have become toll free in 2003 but the “toll” was changed to a “charge” and a French company now collects the cash. There are no barriers, just ANPR cameras which automatically send the charge to the owners of the car, unless you pay up online or by text.
It’s minor, but the New York State Thruway took down a toll barrier between the Tappan Zee Bridge and Exit 17 about 15-20 years ago. Even before that, the Tappan Zee Bridge tolls were switched so they were only paid in one direction (several other bridges in the NYC area also did this). You can travel between several exits in the direction of NYC without tolls, and for several more in the opposite direction.
It does in Scotland. The Skye, Erskine, Forth and Tay bridges are all now toll-free. The Queensferry Crossing (the third Forth bridge 
), when it opens early next year, will be toll-free too.
Not only the Champlain bridge but also the Laurentian Autoroute. The new Champlain Bridge is going to have a toll they say. I can only hope they can make some arrangement with EZ-Pass, but I’m sure they will insist on doing it themselves.
In 1989, Jacksonville, FL, got rid of all of its toll bridges and roads, substituting a half-percent sales tax which continues to this day. I read where they’re planning to add Express toll lanes on certain roads so if you want to avoid traffic, you pay.
The Crescent City Connection bridge, connecting the east and west banks of the Mississippi River in New Orleans, ended toll collection in 2013.
13 years prior, three toll-booth operators had pocketed over $160,000 of cash tolls over a nine-month period and had committed payroll fraud. Public sentiment already had been largely against continuing the tolls past the date the bridge construction would be paid off – the thefts really just pushed over an already toppling tower.
Connecticut was driven to get rid of tolls after a truck plowed into cars waiting at the toll booth (the truck’s brakes may have failed). Seven people died and several more were injured. Here’s a recent article and an article from the time of the accident.
There used to be a toll bridge/causeway to St. George Island in Florida. When the bridge was paid off, the toll booth was dismantled.
The old bridge/causeway has since been replaced by a shiny new (toll-free) bridge.
The politicians really, really wanted to keep that toll money coming in, but public pressure finally forced them to cave in and keep the promise made when the road was built (that the toll would eventually go away).
Be careful about believing politicians’ promises that tolls will stop someday.
The toll on the Robert Moses Causeway on Long Island was removed in 1978.
When I looked at Wikipedia to confirm this, I noticed they have a category “Former toll roads in New York” where they list:
Hutchinson River Parkway
Long Island Motor Parkway
Loop Parkway
Meadowbrook State Parkway
Robert Moses Causeway
Saw Mill River Parkway
Southern State Parkway
Wantagh State Parkway
I suspect if the OP wants a comprehensive list of former toll roads, there is probably a similar category in Wikipedia for each of the other states.
Same story with the old Savannah River Bridge from SC to Savannah, tollbooths came down when I was a kid, but I do recall them. One or two supports from the old bridge are still standing.
I drove a section of the Mass Turnpike a couple of days ago and was surprised to see that the tollboths have been closed and are being removed.
But tolls remain - they are now collected entirely electronically. You either have an EZPass transponder or your license plate is scanned and the vehicle owner gets a bill in the mail. The tolls for non-transponder-equipped vehicles will be higher, and will apparently include a surcharge for the cost of sending out the bill.
Some 400 toll-collector jobs have been eliminated, which it’s claimed will easily save enough money to pay for the new system. (When I lived in MA it was widely understood that these were notably well-paid jobs with very cushy benefits & retirement.)
Centennial Bridge, between Davenport, IA and Rock Island, IL had a 50 cent toll each way for many years, and that was discontinued some years ago.
Illinois has a number of toll roads, mostly Interstate, and the tolls have gone down gradually over the years. They’re actually worth it to drive on because they are MUCH better maintained than the non-toll roads.