New York-Chicago Toll Road system /

The New York – Chicago Toll Road system consists of a nearly-unbroken series of toll roads, all relatively early expressways, nearly connecting Manhattan in the east and downtown Chicago in the west. Beginning near the George Washington Bridge, connected by a short freeway segment as a bridge approach, the system consists of the northern and central part of the New Jersey Turnpike, the Pearl Harbor Memorial Extension of the New Jersey Turnpike, the mainline of the Pennsylvania Turnpike, the Ohio Turnpike, the Indiana Toll Road, and the Chicago Skyway, which feeds into the Dan Ryan Expressway leading to and from downtown Chicago. This system includes parts of what are now Interstate 95, Interstate 276, Interstate 76, Interstate 70, Interstate 80, and Interstate 90. It is a remarkable achievement crossing some large rivers and some mountainous terrain in central Pennsylvania. It bypasses such other large cities as Gary, Michigan City, and South Bend, Indiana; Toledo, Cleveland, Akron, and Youngstown, Ohio; Pittsburgh, Harrisburg, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and Trenton and Hoboken, New Jersey; although each of these cities have good access to this system, typically with newer