High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The North Carolina Turnpike Authority was created in 2002 as a board with the authority to study, plan, develop and undertake preliminary design work for toll roads and toll bridges in the U.S. state of North Carolina. The NCTA has the power to design, establish, purchase, construct, operate, and maintain certain up to nine (originally three) toll road projects. It was created "out of a need to implement alternative financing to pay for much-needed roads during a time of rapid growth, dwindling resources and skyrocketing costs". As of August 2009, no toll roads exist in the state of North Carolina, but the NCTA has started two projects and is studying several others. Thirty-six states operate some type of toll facilities; in fact, every state along the Atlantic Seaboard uses toll facilities except North Carolina and Connecticut.