toll charges

Lynnmor wrote:

dedmiston wrote:

Lynnmor wrote:
Why not use the online calculator?

Maybe he didn't know about it. Why not be a little nicer?

Because I wanted to give him the most complete and accurate information possible, using a minimum of words. By the way, I knew nothing before doing a quick 30 second search using words copied and pasted from the original post. Good Grief!

Well then, let me give you an example with even fewer words and more manners:

Here's an online calculator.

100% snark-free. It doesn't take hardly any effort at all to be polite.

Thank you for finding the link, but please keep the snark out of it.

Toll roads (and bridges) are authorized, built and run at the state level. Sometimes it's a state department that builds them, but often its a quasi-state agency or even private consortium. Construction is usually paid for with bonds, which are repaid from revenues. In theory, if not in practice, tolls on one road will free up gas tax money for use on other roads. Details can vary with state and the authorizing legislation.

Especially in the east and parts of the midwest, toll roads were built (or at least started) before the interstate system was funded. But even in wild west there were privately built toll wagon roads over some of the passes. Most newer toll roads are supposed to add capacity and speed in and around growing metro areas.

https wrote:
A short list of Idaho toll roads and ferries built by private funding includes Boise to Idaho City Toll Road 1864, Fairfield to Rocky Bar Toll Road 1864, Challis to Bonanza Toll Road 1879, Walter's Toll Ferry 1863, Salmon Falls Toll Ferry 1863 and Idaho Falls Toll Ferry 1864.

EZPass is a 19 state toll reciprocity program.

https://www.e-zpassiag.com/about-us/members

Most of my memories of tolls are from the 80s and earlier in Chicago and points east. Then we paid by tossing coins in a hopper, or cash with an in/out ticket. I haven't had need to use the automated tolls on Seattle area roads.
But for all practical purposes ferry fares are tolls.

Blazing Zippers wrote:
Thanks---I found the site to calculate the fees. From what I've seen, this might be an alternative for travel south.
We don't have toll roads here in the frozen North Idaho area, so I'm not familiar with how they work. Our roads are "paved - unpaved."
Also, from what I've gathered, the toll roads around the U.S. don't have a real agreement for a pass that can be used freely across the states. Maybe Congress could address issues like this, but I'm sure they have more "important" things to do.
Thanks again........

You're welcome. If you hate tolls as much as I do, don't come to my home state of PA. With the fuel taxes near the top of the nation, they are proposing adding tolls on many more bridges. The whole northeast has a network of toll roads that are nothing more than added expense for everything and they wonder why business is moving south. You mention congress, yes we have interstate highways funded in large part by the federal but many of these bridges are interstates that the state wants to tax (toll).

Thanks---I found the site to calculate the fees. From what I've seen, this might be an alternative for travel south.
We don't have toll roads here in the frozen North Idaho area, so I'm not familiar with how they work. Our roads are "paved - unpaved."
Also, from what I've gathered, the toll roads around the U.S. don't have a real agreement for a pass that can be used freely across the states. Maybe Congress could address issues like this, but I'm sure they have more "important" things to do.
Thanks again........

dedmiston wrote:

Lynnmor wrote:
Why not use the online calculator?

Maybe he didn't know about it. Why not be a little nicer?

Because I wanted to give him the most complete and accurate information possible, using a minimum of words. By the way, I knew nothing before doing a quick 30 second search using words copied and pasted from the original post. Good Grief!

Toll for a four-axle combination (tow vehicle and two-axle trailer) is $13.75.

(Go to pikepass.com to look up tolls in Oklahoma.)

Lynnmor wrote:
Why not use the online calculator?

Maybe he didn't know about it. Why not be a little nicer?

Why not use the online calculator?