toll plaza

noun

: a place where a driver stops to pay money before going onto a highway

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Villagers in Gujarat built a fake toll plaza and collected Rs 75 crore in a year from passing vehicles. Snigdha Poonam, The Dial, 28 Oct. 2025 The video, captured on a dash camera, shows the second trucker going the wrong direction near a toll plaza while his hazard lights flash. Sarah Fortinsky, The Hill, 20 Oct. 2025 From his window overlooking the Canadian toll plaza, Czudner can see the effects of the unprecedented ill will between the countries that share the world's longest land border. Neal Rubin, Freep.com, 10 Aug. 2025 The project would straighten I-90 where a toll plaza used to be, reconnect Allston with the Charles River waterfront, upgrade the Paul Dudley White Path, see the Allston Viaduct removed, and create an MBTA West Station to provide rail access from central and Western Massachusetts. Matthew Medsger, Boston Herald, 10 July 2025 Car congestion on the bridge approach remains an issue, but the primary pinch points are at the toll plaza and the Richmond Parkway interchange, unrelated to the trail and its users. Robert Prinz, The Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2025 In recent months, advocates and local immigration lawyers have increasingly been receiving tips about these types of detentions at the Ambassador Bridge offices – people who accidentally drive onto the toll plaza, as well as migrants seeking asylum in Canada who are turned back. Joel Rose, NPR, 26 Mar. 2025 Utilizing much of the same technology as the average highway toll plaza, the network was scheduled to begin assessing tolls to motorists who entered Midtown or lower Manhattan on June 30. Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 6 June 2024

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“Toll plaza.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/toll%20plaza. Accessed 6 Nov. 2025.

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