Private highways in the United States | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-01-06

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00:01:21 1 Alabama
00:01:43 2 Alaska
00:01:52 2.1 Dalton Highway
00:02:36 3 California
00:03:12 4 Colorado
00:03:54 4.1 Super Slab
00:04:24 5 Florida
00:04:33 5.1 Orchard Pond Parkway
00:05:03 5.2 Reedy Creek Improvement District
00:07:24 6 Illinois
00:07:33 6.1 Chicago Skyway
00:07:57 7 Indiana
00:08:05 7.1 Indiana Toll Road
00:09:05 8 Texas
00:09:52 9 Virginia
00:10:01 9.1 Dulles Greenway
00:12:07 10 Toll roads to serve development



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There are many private highways in the United States.
The Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike, opened in 1795 between Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Lancaster, Pennsylvania, was the first major American turnpike. According to Gerald Gunderson's Privatization and the 19th-Century Turnpike, "In the first three decades of the 19th century, Americans built more than 10,000 miles [16,000 km] of turnpikes,  in New England and the Middle Atlantic states. Relative to the economy at that time, this effort exceeded the post-World War II interstate highway system." Because electronics did not exist in that era, all tolls had to be collected by human cashiers at toll booths, creating high fixed costs that could only be covered by a large volume of traffic. As railroads and steamboats began to compete with the turnpikes, less profitable highways started to shut down or be turned over to governments. (See Category: Pre-freeway turnpikes in the United States for a listing.)
The National Bridge Inventory lists roughly 2,200 privately owned highway bridges in 41 states and Puerto Rico.