Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2012 13:52:50 -0800
Reply-To: "Kevin ..." <artbear26@HOTMAIL.COM>
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From: "Kevin ..." <artbear26@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Tolls- roof rack vs. trailer
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Rob,
Did you take the ferry across for your camping or drive around? I've not taken my Westy on a ferry yet. Do they give you a bad time or know by now to give regular rates? Sweet LEilani parks in what I call her Secure Bunker and the ceiling is 7 ft with sprinkler heads hanging a few inches below that and she slides in and out fine. What's th height limit on the ferry?
> Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2012 13:03:10 -0800
> From: becida@COMCAST.NET
> Subject: Re: Tolls- roof rack vs. trailer
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>
> At 1/9/2012 11:32 AM, MICHAEL H wrote:
> >Dennis - before the next trip to the SouthLand check out the
> >`SunPass' for FL travels. available on-line. hope this help$. mike
>
> Just went looking...
> http://www.floridasturnpike.com/all-electronictolling/ is the Florida
> Turnpike system, they have options besides the pre-paid Sunpass
>
> The Miami-Dade expressway is just one of them -
> https://www.gomdx.com/olcsc/home/showFaq.do It looks like the Sunpass
> or the $3 fee EACH time.
> >>If you do not have a SunPass account and drive on the MDX roads, a
> photo will be taken of your license plate at each tolling point
> (where you see the overhead structures & signs). This is called
> Toll-By-Plate. MDX will then send an invoice (fee assessed) to the
> registered owner of the vehicle. Toll-By-Plate fees range from 15 to
> 25 cents per toll and a $3.00 invoice fee. <<
> 15 cent toll & $3 invoice fee!
>
> The Tampa-Hillsborough is another,
> https://www.tampatolls.com/olcsc/ it looks like they bundle their
> fees and the Sunpass will work
>
> Out here in Washington State they just started electronic tolling on
> a floating bridge, it's either prepay for a transponder or the toll
> plus fees by mail. If you register the licence plate ahead of time
> the fees are smaller. No cash option.
> The ferries still take cash or credit/debit and height restrictions
> will get you higher rates, I have heard of people pulling the kayak
> AND the roof rack off the Vanagon for the ferry trip to get the
> regular rates. A trailer costs you extra.
>
> Anyone know how the Illinois toll roads are working these days? Coins
> still work? The last time I went over the San Francisco Bay Area
> bridges cash still worked but it was a per axle thing so trailer
> will cost you more
>
> Rob
> becida@comcast.net
> Western WA
>
>
> >
> >
> >________________________________
> > From: Dennis Haynes <d23haynes57@HOTMAIL.COM>
> >
> >
> >Florida has the camera toll roads. I just got the bill from my trip to
> >Homestead Thanksgiving time. The administration fee was almost as much as
> >the toll. Here in NY we have EZ Pass which is good in a lot of places but
> >not Florida.
> >
> >
> >
> >Dennis
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