Choose the best answer Turnpike Trusts: provided elected government officials with a place to invest their money while they held public office to avoid any conflict of interest were profitable public corporations dedicated to the the construction of railways in northern Britain and Ireland were publicly-funded banks that allowed working-class men to by collective insurance against unemployment pooled investors' money for the purpose of road improvements, with the hope that the investors would then make a profit on the tolls collected from those using the road