gbaji wrote:
I can only think of one actual highway that is entirely toll to travel in San Diego county (the south section of 125).
gbaji wrote:
There's one tollway. It's a new section of highway that goes to a newish development (Eastlake) in the south part of the county. The folks who live there can pay for their highway with the tolls. And if they don't want to? There's a parallel interstate highway about 10 miles west of it that they can take. And frankly, from most directions it's not a significantly longer drive. It's only a real time saver if you're basically traveling from the north east or east part of the county to the south east part. If you're anywhere central/west of the main N/S interstate(s), you're basically given a rectangular choice of routes. If you go east then south, you pay money. If you go south and then east, you don't. I suppose during some time periods there could be some traffic issues (cause there is this whole international border thing that the interstate runs smack into), but that's about it.
Smasharoo wrote:
Here in the land of sunshine and unicorns, we have these things called freeways that don't cost any money to drive on and get you where you want to go quickly
Right, like the 125. Oh wait.
Um... That's what I was talking about. It's an utterly avoidable tollway that doesn't save much time unless you actually live in or are traveling to the area it runs through *and* are coming from or going to somewhere else that's in the eastern part of the county. Given that the major population areas are in the western part of the county, and there is a major interstate and interstate loop that run N/S that are both west of the 125, it's not a highway that 99% of the folks living here ever have to even consider using.
Edited, Sep 6th 2013 2:00pm by gbaji