“I’m
planning a trip. Is there a way to find out beforehand how much the tolls will
cost?”
If
you’re planning a trip in this last stretch of summer and you want to plan
ahead and find out how much cash you’ll need to pay the tolls, you’re in luck.
Every state we've checked has a website with a fare calculator. Ohio’s, for
example, is at http://www.ohioturnpike.org/travelers/fare-calculator/.
While the sites are all set up a little differently, they all give you the
option to choose your vehicle class as well as the points that you’ll be
getting on and getting off the toll road. If applicable, the sites also provide
the fares for toll bridges.
We
have another patron who’s planning to walk around the entirety of Lake Erie
next spring. He wanted to know if he could walk across the bridges in Detroit
and Niagara Falls that cross from the United States into Canada. Again, we were
able to go to the websites of the bridges in question and find the tolls listed
there. While the Rainbow Bridge in Niagara Falls lists a fifty-cent charge for
pedestrians and bicyclists, the Ambassador Bridge in Detroit only gives charges for motorcycles and automobiles. However, when our patron looked at the street-level pictures of the bridge available on Google Maps, he noticed a sidewalk. It would probably be best to be prepared to arrange a ride across, just in case.
For
avid travelers, we have an assortment of travel guides available for borrowing,
including The Rough Guide to the USA, Lonely Planet USA, Lonely Planet Canada, and Off the Beaten Path: Ohio. Though it’s in our reference
collection and not available for checkout, we also have the most recent Rand
McNally Road Atlas here for anyone to page through.
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