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Old 08-23-12, 12:16 PM
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Originally Posted by PatrickGSR94
Seems like this sort of thing would come more from someone in Florida than up there in Chicago. FL sure does love their toll ways. I had to go through EIGHT of them from Cape Canaveral up north through the panhandle to Alabama last year, most of them in the Orlando area. The tolls ranged from 75 cents to $2. Then last week we took a trip to Destin FL and had to pay $3 to get over the main bridge across the bay, and then $3.75 on the way back across a different bridge. Ridiculous.
I wonder what percentage of their tollway revenue comes from tourists. I had the same experience as you when we went to Disney and Kennedy Space Center.
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