History
Construction was funded in 1971, and after five years of delays, it was completed in 1980.
The Expressway was converted to open road tolling on July 17, 2010, with all tolls collected electronically. Prior to this, tolls were not collected on the Snapper Creek Expressway despite the use of a variation of the toll shield for many years prior.
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Famous quotes containing the word history:
“America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.”
—Georges Clemenceau (1841–1929)
“I believe that history might be, and ought to be, taught in a new fashion so as to make the meaning of it as a process of evolution intelligible to the young.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)
“The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all.”
—Ben C. Bradlee (b. 1921)