Toll road

It's mostly an American thing now.

In the United States, the word stuck, especially after the nineteenth century turnpike movement that built roads across the frontier with private investment and public oversight.

Take Florida's Turnpike.

Opened in stages between 1957 and 1964, it's a controlled access toll road that carries nearly half a million vehicles daily.

Even though it has no medieval spikes on its shoulders anymore, the name still evokes that historical notion of a barrier you paid to cross, and that's where the linguistic journey gets interesting.

Okay.

Turnpike, what road is it on?

Where is

this partner's office at? This is 441.

So each company had its own infrastructure.

If you actually think about the craziness of what was actually going on there, is that to get coverage across the country of mobile phone signal, we ended up with competitor companies building competing infrastructure, like we did with Turnpike Roads in the bloody 17th century.

What would have made much more sense would be actually some kind of intervention from the government where that infrastructure was created once.

Each mobile phone company uses the same mast, puts their stuff on the same mast.

It's 8.05 as our number three of Sports Talk begins.

I'm John Wilkerson with Vince Ferrara, and we are here at Oak Ridge Nissan, right where the Turnpike meets up with Illinois Avenue.

We have a lot to get to before we step aside and hand it off to Eric Ainge and Brian Rice.

But thanks to our friends at West End Tire, this is when we step to the plate at eight.

And so why don't we go ahead and get a break as we will bring you more sports with Jace Vincent.

And then when we return, it'll be a Tennessee football practice report as we'll hear from Riley Haltom as well as talk more about Tennessee and Texas.

That's next as we're at Oak Ridge Nissan, right where the Turnpike meets up with Illinois Avenue on 99.1, the Sports Animal.

It's football season on Polymarket.

Candace Lopez, what's up?

Well, the North Texas Tollway Authority is adding seven more states to their network of where you can keep driving on toll roads with your toll tag.

So everywhere from Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Indiana.

Don't care.

So what's the problem there?

Yeah, it feels like a scam.

I want answers, Tollway and

TTA.

Although, you know, there's plenty of...

Now, it's not as convenient as a turnpike, which let me raise my hand and shout out to...

My late grandfather, who helped build the Pennsylvania Turnpike, ran heavy equipment on that.

There are other routes you can travel, like Route 30 and all that, but Turnpike does get you there faster.

But you make a choice getting on that.

New Jersey Turnpike, hearing some Bruce Springsteen in their head.

New Jersey Turnpike, $18.85 for full-length passenger vehicle tags.

The Ohio Turnpike, around $14 for full length.

We take a zero off of that number and give them $50,000.

If there was a vote today on the toll roads, look, I think – look, I don't know if we can get enough people to do it, but I would urge somebody who's got money to back it.

Let's force a vote.

Yes.

And you can actually see it was in the two left lanes.

If we can go to our Tollway 1 camera, the crash now has moved over to the left shoulder.

So all lanes, if you could please go to that Tollway 1 camera.

All lanes are back open.

There you go.

You see the vehicles up ahead there, that white van.

So everything is on the left shoulder there.

And on to our second Tollway camera to capture this.