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Would you pay a toll for the freeway?

NaOH

NaOH

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The freeways are pretty bad here. So bad I wonder how people with expensive sports cars and the like go over 65 without scraping or catapulting their car into the air. Also, It's a very very rough ride (pretty much like rubble most of the time, many potholes and uneveness). My car is lowered about 1.5" and I have my struts and shocks set to medium but the ride on the freeway is super rough that I always set them on soft when I commute home or to work. I can't even imagine how it is for porsche, corvette and ferarri owners (I have 3 that reside in my neighborhood). I heard that australlias freeways are SUPER nice and even. But they pay a toll to get on the freeway. So usually only the well off people take the freeway. I think I would pay a toll, not just for a more comfortable ride, but for the sake of my card well being ( It really is that bad, especially on 680 ). It's not a sports car but man, I wish I could have my suspension stiffer on the freeway.

Sports car owners and the like discuss.
 
i don't own a sport car, i drive an SUV, but i'd like to comment on the Australia part, because there's no one in Australia. the kangaroos and the kaola bears own the road.
 
Tolls themselves arren't to horrid, but paying them creates so many traffic jams. Illinois is a prime example.

Edit - I also laughed a bit when you talked about lowering your car 1.5" There is no point in my life where that would ever be an option for me. But to each his own I guess.
 
Originally posted by: TallBill
Tolls themselves arren't to horrid, but paying them creates so many traffic jams. Illinois is a prime example.
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illinois just joined e-zpass. or so im told by my bimonthly 10 page statement.
 
Originally posted by: EKKC
i don't own a sport car, i drive an SUV, but i'd like to comment on the Australia part, because there's no one in Australia. the kangaroos and the kaola bears own the road.
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:laugh:
 
Originally posted by: TallBill
Tolls themselves arren't to horrid, but paying them creates so many traffic jams. Illinois is a prime example.

Edit - I also laughed a bit when you talked about lowering your car 1.5" There is no point in my life where that would ever be an option for me. But to each his own I guess.
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They are moving pretty well along with the open road tolling, though it makes cash users life hell merging on and off.
 
Originally posted by: TallBill
Tolls themselves arren't to horrid, but paying them creates so many traffic jams. Illinois is a prime example.

Edit - I also laughed a bit when you talked about lowering your car 1.5" There is no point in my life where that would ever be an option for me. But to each his own I guess.
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In australlia they have a system where you fill a card with money and when you drive past a toll it will automaticcaly take credit out of that card. Or so I've heard.
 
Originally posted by: EKKC
Originally posted by: TallBill
Tolls themselves arren't to horrid, but paying them creates so many traffic jams. Illinois is a prime example.
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illinois just joined e-zpass. or so im told by my bimonthly 10 page statement.
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Yes, I have an I-pass for when I go up to Illinois, and they do have open road tolling on some roads now which means that you can just go left and drive the speed limit (HAHA) under the pass readers.

However, they still create insane traffic jams.
 
Do I really have a choice? If I say "no" does that mean I get to drive over the bridges for free? Last time I checked, the $3.00 to get across the bay bridge wasn't optional.

Also, I have no idea what road you're complaining about. 680, 880, 80, 101, etc.. they're all in pretty good shape.
 
Originally posted by: krunchykrome
I pay toll everyday back and forth from work. $2 each trip, so $4 a day for work. I use EzPass though.
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ouch...that sucks...i hope you make a lot of money
 
Originally posted by: krunchykrome
I pay toll everyday back and forth from work. $2 each trip, so $4 a day for work. I use EzPass though.
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<-- almost 10 bucks a day for tolls, add $20 for gas 🙁
 
Originally posted by: notfred
Do I really have a choice? If I say "no" does that mean I get to drive over the bridges for free? Last time I checked, the $3.00 to get across the bay bride wasn't optional.

Also, I have no idea what road you're complaining about. 680, 880, 80, 101, etc.. they're all in pretty good shape.
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It's pretty damn uneven. 680 is the only one in bad shape right now. I5 get's pretty bad when you are around stockton.

My point is, even in my car it is a rough ride with a midly stiff suspension so I can't even imagine what sports car owners must go through. Probably why I always see them in the slow lane and a bunch of commuter cars going 80 bounging around in the fast lane.
 
Originally posted by: EKKC
Originally posted by: krunchykrome
I pay toll everyday back and forth from work. $2 each trip, so $4 a day for work. I use EzPass though.
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<-- almost 10 bucks a day for tolls, add $20 for gas 🙁
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:shocked: That has to suck.
 
Originally posted by: pontifex
Originally posted by: krunchykrome
I pay toll everyday back and forth from work. $2 each trip, so $4 a day for work. I use EzPass though.
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ouch...that sucks...i hope you make a lot of money
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LOL, not yet, I'm an intern here earning $14 an hour.

<-- almost 10 bucks a day for tolls, add $20 for gas
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Damn, and I thought I had it bad.
 
Originally posted by: AMDUALY
Originally posted by: notfred
Do I really have a choice? If I say "no" does that mean I get to drive over the bridges for free? Last time I checked, the $3.00 to get across the bay bride wasn't optional.

Also, I have no idea what road you're complaining about. 680, 880, 80, 101, etc.. they're all in pretty good shape.
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It's pretty damn uneven. 680 is the only one in bad shape right now. I5 get's pretty bad when you are around stockton.
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680 is in bad shape? I drive 680 from fremont all the way up to 80 all the time and it's fine.
 
Originally posted by: krunchykrome
Originally posted by: pontifex
Originally posted by: krunchykrome
I pay toll everyday back and forth from work. $2 each trip, so $4 a day for work. I use EzPass though.
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ouch...that sucks...i hope you make a lot of money
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LOL, not yet, I'm an intern here earning $14 an hour.

<-- almost 10 bucks a day for tolls, add $20 for gas
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Damn, and I thought I had it bad.
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well its a client that i work for, but its been 3 months already. the drive from queens NYC to CT is quite a b1tch as well. but at least i can say i make okay money.
 
Originally posted by: notfred
Originally posted by: AMDUALY
Originally posted by: notfred
Do I really have a choice? If I say "no" does that mean I get to drive over the bridges for free? Last time I checked, the $3.00 to get across the bay bride wasn't optional.

Also, I have no idea what road you're complaining about. 680, 880, 80, 101, etc.. they're all in pretty good shape.
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It's pretty damn uneven. 680 is the only one in bad shape right now. I5 get's pretty bad when you are around stockton.
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680 is in bad shape? I drive 680 from fremont all the way up to 80 all the time and it's fine.
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Lots of uneveness especially when you go over an overpass. I switch to the slow lane so I don't hit them at 80 (which is what everyone normally goes). I guess it won't bother you that much if you had a bigger than fist sized wheel gap.

Dang 80 bucks a month for toll. I wonder if it's worth it. Could have your tires lasting longer I guess.
 
Originally posted by: AMDUALY
My point is, even in my car it is a rough ride with a midly stiff suspension so I can't even imagine what sports car owners must go through. Probably why I always see them in the slow lane and a bunch of commuter cars going 80 bounging around in the fast lane.
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Purpose-built sports cars will have a better-tuned suspension than a regular car that you lowered and put stiffer springs on 😉

Tolls are pointless...there are plenty of toll roads on the east coast, and in my experience there isn't much of a correlation between road quality and how much you have to pay to use it. Higher speed limits sometimes, but that's it.
 
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