Beware of Avoidances

 

I have toll roads on my avoidance list. Living in the SE Seattle area this is no big deal since there are very few.

I was returning home from NW Washington (Port Angeles area)and wanted to use the Tacoma Narrows bridge. There is a toll going this direction.

The Nuvi's first choice was a route through Olympia 60 miles out of the way.

Nuvi's second choice was using the ferry going into downtown Seattle.

Since I was towing a 33 ft. trailer neither of these choices would have been acceptable. I knew the route pretty well so I drove over the bridge.

If I did not know the route this could have been a costly trip.

Be aware of your avoidances.

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Maybe there should be 3 avoidances

GPSgeek wrote:
t923347 wrote:

If you want to see the GPS take you a long way out of your way, try to go from Buffalo NY to Toronto Ontario with the Toll Road avoidance turned on.

Happy Motoring mrgreen

There should be two avoidances. Toll Roads and Toll Bridges/Tunnels.

Alternatively, simply exclude border crossings, from the avoidance calculation.

Maybe there should be 3 avoidances: All electronic Toll Roads (or at least the Virginia Express Lanes)

From http://wtop.com/news/2014/10/md-man-fights-875-toll-that-bal...

"FAIRFAX, Va. — A Montgomery County man is fighting a more than $24,000 bill from Transurban for 23 trips along the 495 Express Lanes due to an E-ZPass glitch."

Additional references:
http://wtop.com/news/2014/05/495-express-lanes-trip-cost-wom...
http://wtop.com/virginia/2014/10/woman-with-10692-toll-lanes...
http://wtop.com/news/2014/10/transurban-changes-toll-violati...
http://wtop.com/traffic/2015/01/virginia-woman-loses-license...
http://wtop.com/sprawl-crawl/2015/03/judge-delays-ruling-on-...
http://wtop.com/fairfax-county/2015/04/express-lanes-operato...
http://wtop.com/sprawl-crawl/2015/04/hold-fri-local-drivers-...

The last reference contains a link to the Class Action Complaint filed in US District Court.

Mark

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