NY and RV's (Routing)
Sat, 07/16/2011 - 1:46pm
 14 years
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I had a bad experience last trip to New England. Even though I had selected "Avoid Toll Roads" on my old StreetPilot 2620, it kept leading us through toll booths, to the point we were about to go broke.
Then we somehow wound up going through the Bronx, during rush hour, pulling a car behind the motor home.
So, I finally found Mapsource.
After selecting the same avoidances, I built a route from Fayetteville, GA to Mystic, CT. This generated a route up I-85 and I-81 through Syracuse, NY and Watertown, NY before finally heading to the East.
Built the same route on my 1490T, with the same result.
Is this really the way to get from Georgia to Connecticutt without paying a toll?
Roy Adams
It would also depend on what
It would also depend on what else you had checked. Such as fastest vs shortest. Fastest could possibly take you up to Syracuse and then Watertown. To avoid toll you wouldn't get on I90 in Syracuse and go due east yo CT. From Watertown it probably took you on rt 11 over to Lake George. Maybe down I87 for a while (no toll) but to avoid I90 toll you went way off the grid again. I usually look at the route before I take it.
Nuvi 2460LMT.
Yup
From Fayetteville take I-85 to I-77 to I-81 to I-78 to I-287 to to I-95.
That's the fastest with no tolls.
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Bridge Tolls vs. Highway Tolls
From Fayetteville take I-85 to I-77 to I-81 to I-78 to I-287 to to I-95.
That's the fastest with no tolls.
Except perhaps for the toll to cross the George Washington Bridge. The huge detour in the original poster's route was probably calculated to avoid tolls completely.
That's what I missed
It seems that once in the past my old GPS routed me over a bridge north of the GW Bridge. Still paid a small toll, but perhaps cheaper.
Maybe the older GPS's used a bit of "fuzzy logic" to accept a toll or two rather than an absurd circumnavigation?
Roy