Originally Posted by
dengidog
VERY IMPORTANT: you cannot ride on the cuotas (toll roads). In the Guia Roji maps, they´re usually marked with a "D." So if you take the advice of another poster, please double check 40D before planning on riding it. There´s a blog where a couple of women just rode around the casetas (toll shacks) and pretended they didn´t know any better, but I wouldn´t do it. You don´t want to be partially down the road and forced to turn back. When you see signs at splits in the road and one says "cuota" and the other says "libre" (free), you have to take the libre if on bike.
This is a 7 month old thread.
My only cuota experience was about 8 years ago in the state of Michoacan. A knowledgeable woman in the tourist office in Patzcuaro urged us to ride our bikes on the toll road to Uruapan instead of the old, free road. (BTW, that particular toll road is only a 2-lane road.) She said the old road had more traffic, especially more trucks, more curves, was narrower, and overall was less safe for cyclists, she felt. We took her advice and had no problems at all riding our bikes on it. At the toll plaza, we were told to walk our bikes on the sidewalk so we wouldn't trip the sensors, but otherwise nobody seemed the slightest bit surprised that we were on bikes. We were not asked to pay a toll. A police car passed us while we were riding and ignored us.