It's not. A toll bridge can be rigid. Now if you were to ask the same and omit 'toll'..... bridges depending on type, need flexibility and elasticity for contraction and expansion during changes in ambient temperature and ground movement
This answer is toll
a fee paid is a ---> toll
1) make money 2) less traffic on highways because many people wont pay In the UK it originates from the 1600s. In 1706 Parliament created the first turnpike trust, a scheme by which local business people could charge a toll for using a road, using the money received to maintain the road. Companies and governments nowadays that own roads and bridges would argue that any money they charge in tolls is used for maintaining and improving.
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The state gets the money.
To support the bridge or roadway.
There are no toll bridges via I-80 and I-94 (join up in Chicagoland) and there is only one measly toll that you will have to pay when I-80 joins up with I-294 TOLLWAY.
No, they don't exist.
To gain money from people who wish to cross them.
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a toll-- bridges were very expensive back then, they needed money to pay for them, so they charged to cross them.
There is no toll on the Brooklyn Bridge. The Brooklyn, Manhattan and Williamsburg Bridges are toll-free.
Toll slips to cross bridges and thru-ways.
There is no toll on the Williamsburg Bridge. The Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Williamsburg Bridges are toll-free. The only crossing that connects Brooklyn to Manhattan that has a toll is the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel.
Normally, bridges are built by governments, and therefore it is the government which operates them. But it is possible for a private company to build and operate a bridge as well.
No. The Brooklyn, Manhattan and Williamsburg Bridges are toll-free.
The Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Williamsburg Bridges currently are toll free. The only crossing that connects Brooklyn to Manhattan that has a toll is the Brooklyn Battery tunnel. The toll for that crossing is currently (as of December 30, 2010) $6.50 cash (without E-ZPass) and $4.80 with E-ZPass.