[2] Shunpiking has also come to mean an avoidance of major highways (regardless of tolls) in preference for bucolic and scenic interludes along lightly traveled country roads.
[3] Subsequently, a nearby road for stagecoaches was built around 1787, which became subject to control of the Turnpike Association incorporated in 1797.
[4][5] A shunpike in Morris County, New Jersey, dates back to 1804;[6] one near Mount Holly, Vermont, was in existence at least as early as 1809;[7] and one in Hampton Falls, New Hampshire, was created circa 1810.
It was formed by the improvement and connection of sideroads to enable country people to avoid the expenses of the tolls.
Shunpike Road ran through the towns of Bottle Hill (now Madison), Chatham, Summit and Springfield.
This continued on until April 12, 1826, when the toll on the Turnpike was discontinued and has remained a free road to this day.
"[9] An example of shunpiking as a form of boycott occurred at the James River Bridge in eastern Virginia, United States.
After years of lower than anticipated revenues on the narrow, privately funded structure built in 1928, the Commonwealth of Virginia finally purchased the facility in 1949.
Several new shunpikes have emerged, the most common being the historical alignment of MD 299 through Warwick or Levels Road, but neither is viable for trucks.
Despite the added mileage, the relatively non-congested roadways in western Maryland (combined with the various tunnels and pre-Interstate quality of the Pennsylvania Turnpike) make the toll-free trip nearly the same time as the toll route.
It traverses through 180 miles of rugged terrain starting in Kenova in the west and ending in White Sulphur Springs.
A much smaller remnant road of the James River and Kanawha Turnpike, is the 5 mile Kanawha Turnpike that runs from South Charleston to Charleston, the road then splits and continues for another mile in Jefferson before merging back onto US-60.
[citation needed] In Hong Kong, when crossing Victoria Harbour between Hong Kong Island and Kowloon/New Kowloon, most drivers and businesses prefer the much cheaper, and older, Cross-Harbour Tunnel (XHT), to the Western Harbour Crossing.
A similar phenomenon exists with the Lion Rock Tunnel between Sha Tin New Town (and the rest of the eastern and northeastern New Territories) and New Kowloon.