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I saw an inquiry here where someone was asking about traveling cross-country and avoiding tollroads. Being from California, I don't have a lot of experience with toll roads (only bridge tolls), but when we drove to NYC three or four years ago, we hit a lot of toll roads in Ohio and I didn't think they were terribly expensive or disruptive, or worth finding another route.
Is avoiding toll roads something a lot of people do? Aren't the toll roads better maintained than the others? Appreciate your thoughts!
I saw an inquiry here where someone was asking about traveling cross-country and avoiding tollroads. Being from California, I don't have a lot of experience with toll roads (only bridge tolls), but when we drove to NYC three or four years ago, we hit a lot of toll roads in Ohio and I didn't think they were terribly expensive or disruptive, or worth finding another route.
Is avoiding toll roads something a lot of people do? Aren't the toll roads better maintained than the others? Appreciate your thoughts!
Do I avoid toll roads? Not really.
However, If I drive from Rockford, IL to New York City on the turnpikes, I spending at least $40 in tolls which is NOT an inconsequential cost.
When I have an opportunity to plan my routes to avoid tolls, I generally will. However, if that means taking a lot of service streets, forget about it.
No, I don't. Some are kept in better condition than interstates and I don't mind the toll. There seems to be a lack of billboards, which I like, and the rest areas and concessions are usually OK.
Yes, if I can. Then I can stop when I want to and see things that I want. Many toll roads you go from point A to point B and nowhere to stop or get off in between.
Avoid no, But when I do route planning I do Factor it in to the different routes I can take.
But not going to take a local/state hi-way with traffic lights, cross traffic, lower speed limits to save a dollar. My time is worth more then that.
I'm not sure if you're in Houston now, elnina, but if you are, I'm sure you find them impossible to avoid as we do. Houstonians such as my wife and I actually suffer from a syndrome local journalists have dubbed "toll road weariness." Toll roads are EVERYWHERE here, and driving on a toll road regularly costs as much as TEN TIMES as much as raising the gasoline tax for residents. Proponents of toll roads say "if you don't want to pay, just don't drive on them," but here and in other large Texas cities, our government has made that well nigh impossible by reducing the number of free highways, adding toll lanes to formerly free ones, and adding tolled exits to "free" highways.
Then the free highways that are left become increasingly clogged by drivers who don't want to pay to drive on a road day after day. When it costs $1.75 every few miles to drive on a freeway and we drive an average of 20 miles to work, toll roads are outrageously expensive. And they never stop charging us. Our oldest toll road The Sam Houston Tollway has been tolling drivers since 1989. It has paid for itself more than 12 times now
There is one in my are that has a " Last exit before toll " sign. Just about every car takes this exit to take the other road that runs parallel to the toll road.
Around Denver, yes, because I know how to work around them without adding significant travel time. When I vacation, no.
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