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by marssaxman 719 days ago
We did that here in Seattle, where we have the longest floating bridge in the world, SR 520 across Lake Washington: tolls stopped in 1979 after construction was paid off.

Alas, tolling resumed in 2011, to pay for the complete reconstruction of the bridge. This time we are probably stuck with it, since WSDOT has grown inordinately fond of tolling as a traffic-management tool.