Eisenhower’s original intent was for interstate highways to have tolls, but Congress had other ideas, and Eisenhower ultimately accepted the gas tax method of funding.
Eisenhower’s original intent was for interstate highways to have tolls,
Eisenhower's "original intent" can be read here...
"The Governor's Conference and the President's Advisory Committee are agreed that the Federal share of the needed construction program should be about 30 percent of the toal, leaving to State and local units responsibility to finance the reamaineder...
...Financing of interstate and Federal-aid systems should be based on the planned use of increasing revenues from present gas and diesel oil taxes, augmented in limited instances with tolls"
Message to the Congress regarding highways, February 22, 1955 [White House Office, Office of the Press Secretary to the President, Box 4, Press Releases Feb. 8-March 14, 1955; NAID #16857605]
It appears it was congress who wanted toll roads...
Who created the Interstate System?
The concept of an Interstate system as we know it was first described in a 1939 report to Congress called Toll Roads and Free Roads. The report rejected the toll superhighway network Congress had suggested; revenue from tolls on most segments would not support the bonds issued for their construction. However, the report added that the country needed a toll-free express highway network.
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Through the remainder of his years as President, he searched for ways to solve the problems that plagued the program in its early years and pushed for continued work on the Interstate System. His leadership in promoting the 1956 Act and moving the program forward on schedule has earned President Eisenhower the title "Father of the Interstate System."
Limited Instances - not the predatory "bidness as usual" model being inflicted today... “Toll road backer hires Halliburton subsidiary” http://m.gazette.com/toll-road-backer-hires-halliburton-subsidiary/article/18581
Eisenhower's "Military-Industrial Complex" Speech
Origins and Significance