#Tollway

[somewhat-a-sigma]

oasis

[music-for-them-asses]

It's normally 25 minutes to the venue from my place, but there's multiple wrecks so it's over an hour now 🙃🙃🙃🫠🫠🫠

[carlocarrasco]

DOTr postpones news rules and imposition of fines for motorists with no RFID to October 1, 2024

This is for motorists who have been traveling along the highways without radio frequency identification (RFID) tags or with insufficient load. The Department of Transportation (DOTr) recently announced that it has officially postponed to October 1, 2024 the implementation of new tollway guidelines and fines, according to a BusinessWorld news report. The implementation was supposed to have…

[the-mozzarella-brothers]

do any of yall ever see a post that mentions the capital city in ur boring little state that no one has ever heard about like ever and youre about to act so excited but then you realise you’ll dox yourself if you do so you cant.

[mrsmoose54]

Rental Car Toll Charges

TIP: Do your research before booking and compare rental companies. I received a message from my daughter 24 hours before her flight to New York in regard to paying for tolls in a rental car. Her route was from JFK to Maryland and couldn’t work out her options. I have previously written about the Orlando Visitor Toll Pass – Save up to 80% and Illinois Tollway on 2023 road trip States 46 & 47…

[rohans-daughter]

bored bored bored bored

[insert arietty clock from the 1997 borrowers here]

[digitalfilipina]

MPTC Units Gear up for Road Safety Month

Metro Pacific Tollways Corp. (MPTC), the leading mobility infrastructure and solutions provider in the Philippines, joins the country in celebrating the road safety month with ‘Mission: Road Safety’. MPTC is undertaking this initiative to reinforce its expressways’ road safety mission based on the 3 pillars of safety – safe self, safe vehicle, and safe roads. “Mission: Road Safety”…

[raskies456]

now that I commute tho I am always thinking about that tweet that’s like “why does traffic exist. just drive forward”

[somewhat-a-sigma]

oasis 4.7.16

[trivialbob]

Baraboo was fun. I have more to write about it, but that will wait until I am home and using my computer.

Today's drive to Chicago was uneventful. I took my time and didn't speed or try to make good time. Which probably explains why I am not stressed out right now.

I also stopped at the Mars Cheese Castle in Kenosha. Mmmm, Wisconsin cheese and beef sticks.

I hate paying highway tolls to Illinois. Sheila's car (which I drove) has the EZ Pass transponder, to easily pay tolls without stopping. In Minnesota it's for the carpool lanes, but works on the Illinois tollway.

F that. I set my Waze app to Avoid Toll Roads. Instead of driving down I-90 or I-94, I took US 41, a toll-free road. That route only added 12 minutes to my journey.

I saved about six bucks in tolls 😀

[2022dirt]

An Oscar Mayer Wienermobile was involved in a rollover crash on the Tri-State Tollway in Illinois.

[threadrunner]

Does anyone actually see those dodge chargers doin 100mph on the tollway and not immediately think they’re the biggest losers imaginable

[dytabytes]

I am writing an inordinate amount of sin, but I am too ashamed to post any links to it here. It's. It's pretty. Uh.

Hmm.

Like, you ever just look at yourself and wonder what went wrong? When did I stray from the path unto heaven and scuttle onto the express tollway to hell? At what point did I cast myself, screaming, into the void whence dwell only the horrors and the unforgiven?

[annakie]

My family was supposed to all be out of town by now, but Stuff happened and they're not leaving til next week.

Asked my mom on Sunday if we were going to do any kind of Thanksgiving and she was like "Oh I bought sliced turkey at the deli!" Me: lol no

Spent an hour or so googling for options and H.E.B. (Texas grocery chain) had a full Thanksgiving dinner for four (4 - 6 lb Turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, sweet potato casserole, green bean casserole, gravy and real cranberry sauce), all pre-cooked, and for under $100. Just unbox, stick it in the oven for an hour, and voila, easy dinner.

So I ordered that. They bought some pie when they went to Walmart, mom's making bread from scratch because she loves using her Kitchenaid stand mixer for bread, I bought a little cheese tray for appetizers, and we've got the easiest Thanksgiving ever for four.

Went to pick it up and:

A) Forgot that everyone gets out of work early today thus getting on the road at 2pm was like usually getting on the road at 5pm, especially heading away from downtown.

B) Forgot how far this grocery store was. I used to work right by there and completely forgot how much I hated that commute. I took the tollways. Worth it.

C) HOLY CRAP the grocery store parking lot was like Mad Max. Trying to get in and this idiot cut me off badly before getting into the parking lot, then I guess they got scared when I followed them into the parking lot and were driving erratically trying to get away from me? Even though I was just, you know, being normal. Maybe they were just THAT dumb. Then they nearly hit a family on foot while making a shitty blind turn. Terrifying. I offered the family my dashcam footage, but since nobody was hurt and they were leaving, they just wanted to get out.

D) CANNOT IMAGINE what it was like in that store, the parking lot looked FULL full. Thank the retail gods for curbside pickup. Didn't have to get out of the car. Wasn't allowed to tip the girl who brought the groceries out. =\ Only downside is that I'd ordered an extra side of pre-made Parmesan Garlic carrots for more veggies. They substituted the carrots for more green beans. Nobody in my family likes green beans much already. :p

E) Driving home was almost as bad, but traffic was better going south.

F) Thought it would take me 45 minutes. Entire trip took an hour and a half. Glad to be home.

G) I hate putting groceries away. The box with dinner juuuuust barely fits in my fridge. I had to duct tape the door shut. No, I'm not kidding. :D IT'S FINE. It's for like, 18 hours!

[mrsmoose54]

Orlando Visitor Toll Pass - Save up to 80%

Toll FL Having enjoyed the freedom of the Illinois Tollway on my recent Road Trip  to visit Nebraska and North Dakota I was researching Central Florida for any of the latest attractions to write about but came across the joined up thinking of Toll FL instead. The issue in the past has been trying to avoid the horrendously greedy charges that rental car companies try to get away with by providing…