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my gas post got me thinking
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hondachicc
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WE don't have them around here.....They are in the Northern part of our state though....I have no idea how much though
we don't have any toll bridges here but we do have a toll road that skirts around the edge of the city and has a higher speed limit. you can "pre-pay" and get a discount, but basically, the portion of it that I normally take is like $.75 I think. but you can totally avoid using the turnpike, i just like it in this area because you can go 70 mph and avoid all the stop lights.
Tolls, in NJ?? Not a chance. /snark
hehe, tolls in NJ and into NY are a huge source of revenue and political drama.
To get into the City- depending on the bridge/tunnel you use, I think its about $8.
Driving on the Turnpike- it depends on how many exits you go through, but anywhere from $1-10 IIRC.
The state redid a lot of the Parkway to ease up on Shore traffic, but it used to be 35 cents every few exits. Now they stretched out the booths and did a lot more with EZ Pass lanes.
when I was younger, my friends and I never went anywhere w/o a cup full of quarters and dimes for tolls.
hehe, tolls in NJ and into NY are a huge source of revenue and political drama.
To get into the City- depending on the bridge/tunnel you use, I think its about $8.
Driving on the Turnpike- it depends on how many exits you go through, but anywhere from $1-10 IIRC.
The state redid a lot of the Parkway to ease up on Shore traffic, but it used to be 35 cents every few exits. Now they stretched out the booths and did a lot more with EZ Pass lanes.
when I was younger, my friends and I never went anywhere w/o a cup full of quarters and dimes for tolls.
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Bush Girl
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We don't generally have tolls in the UK I think because our roads are crowded & congested enough as it is. There is, however, a toll bridge from England into Wales (a river crossing) that charges you £5.70 ($9.24) to drive over in a car, but a staggering £17.20 ($27.88) in a truck. And the really mean thing is that there's no way round this, you have to use one of the 2 bridges and both charge.
In London we have a daily toll charge. It used to be just in the very centre of town, the touristy West End and the City where all the banking etc goes on. But 5 yrs ago they extended it to include a really large (and relatively rich) residential area where no particular business goes on, but there are loads of residents who have cars. This was a really cynical tax that everyone was up in arms about. So just to live on your own street you had to pay the London Assembly for the pleasure (on top of the parking permit you also needed from you local council). The daily charge is £8 ($13). Now, I live half a mile OUTSIDE the Congestion Zone so could not drive my car beyond the roundabout at the end of my high street, I could not drive to my local supermarket as it was inside the zone and I could not drive anywhere easily because the congestion outside the Congestion Zone was absolutely diabolical as people tried to avoid driving into the zone. Thankfully, this Outer Zone was reduced (but only after 3 years of fighting and 3 public consultations which ALL asked for it to be abolished) at Christmas and I can now drive to my local supermarket again.
Ahhhhh, that makes me feel a lot better - not had a great day so far, but a good rant gets it out of the system.
Ooooh, and in Singapore they have a really clever toll charge system. Every single car, taxi, bus, truck, motorbike is fitted with an in-car reader which houses a special charge card, that can be topped up at eg: 7-11 & supermarkets, and every time you go under a charging gantry, the toll is automatically deducted. It's really small, like SGD$0.50, but you could potentially travel under half a dozen gantries in one trip into the centre of town. This works really easily and well and the system starts buzzing when you're running out of funds. But part of why it works is that the Singaporean government controls how many cars are allowed on the roads at any one time - they don't allow more than 1,000,000 cars to have road licences at a time and you can only purchase a road licence if you car has been adapted to take the charger. So residents of neighbouring Malaysia have to have a charger fitted if they want to drive into Singapore - but as Singapore is at the very tip of mainland Asia, you can't drive any further than Singapore itself.
That's quite enough from me!
In London we have a daily toll charge. It used to be just in the very centre of town, the touristy West End and the City where all the banking etc goes on. But 5 yrs ago they extended it to include a really large (and relatively rich) residential area where no particular business goes on, but there are loads of residents who have cars. This was a really cynical tax that everyone was up in arms about. So just to live on your own street you had to pay the London Assembly for the pleasure (on top of the parking permit you also needed from you local council). The daily charge is £8 ($13). Now, I live half a mile OUTSIDE the Congestion Zone so could not drive my car beyond the roundabout at the end of my high street, I could not drive to my local supermarket as it was inside the zone and I could not drive anywhere easily because the congestion outside the Congestion Zone was absolutely diabolical as people tried to avoid driving into the zone. Thankfully, this Outer Zone was reduced (but only after 3 years of fighting and 3 public consultations which ALL asked for it to be abolished) at Christmas and I can now drive to my local supermarket again.
Ahhhhh, that makes me feel a lot better - not had a great day so far, but a good rant gets it out of the system.
Ooooh, and in Singapore they have a really clever toll charge system. Every single car, taxi, bus, truck, motorbike is fitted with an in-car reader which houses a special charge card, that can be topped up at eg: 7-11 & supermarkets, and every time you go under a charging gantry, the toll is automatically deducted. It's really small, like SGD$0.50, but you could potentially travel under half a dozen gantries in one trip into the centre of town. This works really easily and well and the system starts buzzing when you're running out of funds. But part of why it works is that the Singaporean government controls how many cars are allowed on the roads at any one time - they don't allow more than 1,000,000 cars to have road licences at a time and you can only purchase a road licence if you car has been adapted to take the charger. So residents of neighbouring Malaysia have to have a charger fitted if they want to drive into Singapore - but as Singapore is at the very tip of mainland Asia, you can't drive any further than Singapore itself.
That's quite enough from me!
clarabear
always chatty at the O!!
Oh...I totally forgot...there is a bridge that connects one side of the Puget Sound to the other many of you have probably seen it and not even realized it in commercials. We have a suspension bridge in Washington that connects Tacoma to Gig Harbor and there is footage of it...Here I found a really cool video: Galloping Gertie
So, anyway...the bridge collapsed in the 40s months after it was built and so they built another one. Well, since that time Gig Harbor and the other towns west of there have become much more populated and so they built a sister bridge next to it recently and so one bridge goes on direction and the new bridge has a toll.
When we lived in Italy the Autostrada aka freeway had tolls. It was like the turnpikes where you pay per exit. The cool thing/pain in the butt thing was that you could switch autostradas and everything and then they would just catch you at the end. It was for every single freeway system. It wasn't horrible. It cost about $0.40 to go from the post where my husband worked to home and that was 2 exits...but we usually just went the back way because it took less time. But to get to Venice cost about $3-$5 which was about 45-60 minutes away and to drive to Rome cost about $35 and that was a 4 hour drive (going really fast of course) and took 4 freeways to get to. I always liked that you only had to pay once and not at every interchange. That was really nice.
So, anyway...the bridge collapsed in the 40s months after it was built and so they built another one. Well, since that time Gig Harbor and the other towns west of there have become much more populated and so they built a sister bridge next to it recently and so one bridge goes on direction and the new bridge has a toll.
When we lived in Italy the Autostrada aka freeway had tolls. It was like the turnpikes where you pay per exit. The cool thing/pain in the butt thing was that you could switch autostradas and everything and then they would just catch you at the end. It was for every single freeway system. It wasn't horrible. It cost about $0.40 to go from the post where my husband worked to home and that was 2 exits...but we usually just went the back way because it took less time. But to get to Venice cost about $3-$5 which was about 45-60 minutes away and to drive to Rome cost about $35 and that was a 4 hour drive (going really fast of course) and took 4 freeways to get to. I always liked that you only had to pay once and not at every interchange. That was really nice.
ourmisadventures
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Clara is that the bridge that got delayed in rebuilding because they found the native american artifacts when they were starting the base?
Around here in the Central Valley we haven't had any tolls of any kind, but I know in the Bay Area that's a different story. We haven't gone to the bay area since Jeff's grandpa's funeral and I don't remember a single toll... but we stuck to Oakland and Berkley, so we never crossed into SF.
Around here in the Central Valley we haven't had any tolls of any kind, but I know in the Bay Area that's a different story. We haven't gone to the bay area since Jeff's grandpa's funeral and I don't remember a single toll... but we stuck to Oakland and Berkley, so we never crossed into SF.
TessieB
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We have one toll bridge that I know of that crosses the Platte River. It saves a little driving through Omaha and Council Bluffs. Its a $1.50 and we do use it sometimes if we have cash. Come to think of it, I think there might be one down by Plattsmouth too. They are al private owned ad maintained so sometimes I'm a little leary.
Kiliki
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ohh i didnt know that...never go around the Platte river or Plattsmouth