Tolls
The Delaware Turnpike is the most expensive toll road in the United States (excluding toll bridges and tunnels), based on cost-per-mile average. As of 1 October 2007 (2007 -10-01), tolls on the Delaware Turnpike are $4.00 in each direction; 35.7 cents per mile (increased from $3.00, or 26.8 cents for mile), collected at the Newark toll plaza near the Maryland state line. (Considering that the only toll point is at the state line, the actually distance tolled is approximately 3.12 miles from DE-896 to MD-279, which comes to approximately $1.28 per mile.) Like most toll highways in the northeast U.S., toll collection is done either with cash fare or with E-ZPass electronic toll collection. Prior to 1976, tolls were collected on the Delaware Turnpike's three exits (DE 896, DE 273, and what is now DE 1/DE 7), but have since been removed, their former locations marked with straight wide sections on entrance or exit ramps where the tolls were collected. The Delaware Turnpike toll plaza is often shunpiked by way of parallel local roads. In the summer of 2011, reconstruction of the Delaware Turnpike toll plaza was completed in a $32.6 million project, adding high-speed E-ZPass lanes.
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—John Donne (c. 1572–1631)