Could 9, 2025 · 11:00 pm
In case you dwell in Florida you’re conscious of the notorious toll cubicles that are actually being phased out for an digital methodology often known as Sunpass.
A toll sales space was erected within the Key’s to gather $1 for automobile and driver and 25 cents for every further passenger. Given the unbelievable ocean views on either side, every shiny quarter paid for tolls had been thought-about “Silver Plated Reminiscences”. Toll cubicles in these days had been erected to pay for the development after which eliminated as soon as the roads and bridges had been totally paid off (in contrast to todays lifetime tolls). The Toll Gate, because it was known as, was eliminated in 1954. Discover the unpaved highway, what a hoot! 🙂
It’s arduous for us to fathom, the primary automobile drove into Key West on January twenty fifth 1928 by way of a ferry from right here. It wasn’t till March twenty ninth 1938 {that a} steady highway introduced the primary automobile to Key West with out using a ferry!
Yow will discover this FREE ignored historic Toll Gate marker together with aspect roads named Toll Gate Boulevard, Toll Gate Lane, Toll Gate Shores Drive at Mile Marker 73.8 on US-1 bayside. The Toll Gate photograph itself could be discovered contained in the Island Grill at Mile Marker 88.5 oceanside.
