An interesting note: RVing through Canada we crossed a large bridge in Vancouver marked as toll but zipped across without seeing a toll booth. Talking with others at a campground I found out that Canada will just bill you for the toll with about $2 added for not having a quick pass device. Sure enough, after about a month back home, the bill arrived in the mail. What a great way to collect tolls! I'd gladly pay that extra charge not to have to deal with lines at a toll booth!

Just have to be careful what toll roads you travel or you'll get a big surprise when you get home. Traveled on the toll road 407 around Toronto and got a $100 bill in the mail. Called and complained and it was reduced to $14.

garyemunson wrote:An interesting note: RVing through Canada we crossed a large bridge in Vancouver marked as toll but zipped across without seeing a toll booth. Talking with others at a campground I found out that Canada will just bill you for the toll with about $2 added for not having a quick pass device. Sure enough, after about a month back home, the bill arrived in the mail. What a great way to collect tolls! I'd gladly pay that extra charge not to have to deal with lines at a toll booth!South Florida, which has a plethera of toll roads, has the same system. Either a Sun Pass or "toll by plate" where they mail you a bill.

DownTheAvenue wrote:garyemunson wrote:An interesting note: RVing through Canada we crossed a large bridge in Vancouver marked as toll but zipped across without seeing a toll booth. Talking with others at a campground I found out that Canada will just bill you for the toll with about $2 added for not having a quick pass device. Sure enough, after about a month back home, the bill arrived in the mail. What a great way to collect tolls! I'd gladly pay that extra charge not to have to deal with lines at a toll booth!South Florida, which has a plethera of toll roads, has the same system. Either a Sun Pass or "toll by plate" where they mail you a bill.Yep Florida started this in 2011

The big signs near the bridge tell you to go to the internet. If you do, and put in your licence plate, your trip comes up and you make a payment that way, or follow the directions to drive off the highway and pay at the booth in BC.

We don't have toll booths around here and two that do now have electronic tolling. If you are from the US and try to avoid payment when it arrives in the mail, not to worry, the gov't uses a US-based contractor to collect the payments. :)If that's the new Port Mann bridge on the #1 hwy, there's been a lot of opposition to the toll, esp. from truckers. The truckers and others take a long detour around that bridge which has only made other routes clogged up. One of those detours, the Patullo Bridge, is now slated for replacement with a new toll bridge.There is a new replacement/upgrade in the works for the George Massey tunnel on hwy 99 on the way from the border into Vancouver and it will also be tolled. DW takes that route to work every day and fortunately will be retired by the time it's finished.In the not too distant future, you won't be able to get into Vancouver from the east or south without running into a toll bridge, unless coming from the east you could cross over Fraser River in Mission and travel along the north side of the river but that'd be a LOT slower. But taking an RV into Vancouver isn't the best of ideas unless going to Whistler or Vancouver Island.

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Artum_Snowbird
Explorer
Sep 01, 2016
The big signs near the bridge tell you to go to the internet. If you do, and put in your licence plate, your trip comes up and you make a payment that way, or follow the directions to drive off the highway and pay at the booth in BC.
rr2254545
Explorer
Sep 01, 2016
DownTheAvenue wrote:
garyemunson wrote:
An interesting note: RVing through Canada we crossed a large bridge in Vancouver marked as toll but zipped across without seeing a toll booth. Talking with others at a campground I found out that Canada will just bill you for the toll with about $2 added for not having a quick pass device. Sure enough, after about a month back home, the bill arrived in the mail. What a great way to collect tolls! I'd gladly pay that extra charge not to have to deal with lines at a toll booth!

South Florida, which has a plethera of toll roads, has the same system. Either a Sun Pass or "toll by plate" where they mail you a bill.

Yep Florida started this in 2011
DownTheAvenue
Explorer
Sep 01, 2016
garyemunson wrote:
An interesting note: RVing through Canada we crossed a large bridge in Vancouver marked as toll but zipped across without seeing a toll booth. Talking with others at a campground I found out that Canada will just bill you for the toll with about $2 added for not having a quick pass device. Sure enough, after about a month back home, the bill arrived in the mail. What a great way to collect tolls! I'd gladly pay that extra charge not to have to deal with lines at a toll booth!

South Florida, which has a plethera of toll roads, has the same system. Either a Sun Pass or "toll by plate" where they mail you a bill.
southernsky
Explorer
Sep 01, 2016
Just have to be careful what toll roads you travel or you'll get a big surprise when you get home. Traveled on the toll road 407 around Toronto and got a $100 bill in the mail. Called and complained and it was reduced to $14.

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