Tom Austin wrote:
> I was expecting a toll booth, but never ran into one - just the 
> electronic 'toll readers' that you pass under - I was driving a rental 
> and have NO clue how the tolls work.

I was worried about that too. Apparently they photograph your license and 
mail you a bill for the $0.45 toll or whatever it is. Basically, you can pay 
with a toll tag for $0.35 or get a bill for $0.45. Chances are the rental 
car company gets a bill and it just isn't worth their time to bill you if 
your only toll was going back to the airport. At least, I never got a bill.

Hey, Dallas, here's a hint for you: If you're going to have a toll 
collection system where nobody is supposed to stop, and the only explanation 
has to be read while you're motoring along at 70MPH, try not to call that 
payment collection system CASH.  Duh!

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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
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On Thu, 26 Aug 2010 07:50:17 -0700, Darren New wrote:

> Tom Austin wrote:
>> The Dallas/Ft Worth airport is HUGE!
> 
> The terminal in DFW is farther from the runways than the San Diego
> convention center is from the runway in San Diego. :-)
> 
> I'm also amused that it's a $2.50 toll road some 7 miles long to get
> from the entrance to the terminal.

You can take the frontage road and avoid the toll, at least I did when I 
was last at DFW (a few years ago now).

Jim

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On 8/26/2010 10:50 AM, Darren New wrote:
> Tom Austin wrote:
>> The Dallas/Ft Worth airport is HUGE!
>
> The terminal in DFW is farther from the runways than the San Diego
> convention center is from the runway in San Diego. :-)
>
> I'm also amused that it's a $2.50 toll road some 7 miles long to get
> from the entrance to the terminal.
>

I managed to get through the airport 'toll road' without paying.

I was in before I knew it and turned around at a terminal to get gas for 
the rental car.  I was in for about 5 minutes - no charge.

Then I drove straight through (north to south) to get to the rental drop 
off - 5 minutes and again no charge.

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Tom Austin wrote:
> I was in before I knew it and turned around at a terminal to get gas for 
> the rental car.  I was in for about 5 minutes - no charge.

Now that you mention it, I think there's no toll if you take less than 15 
minutes or something.

That doesn't diminish the amusement that, essentially, the parking lot is 
big enough to have a toll on it.

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On 8/26/2010 4:59 PM, Darren New wrote:
> Tom Austin wrote:
>> I was in before I knew it and turned around at a terminal to get gas
>> for the rental car. I was in for about 5 minutes - no charge.
>
> Now that you mention it, I think there's no toll if you take less than
> 15 minutes or something.
>
> That doesn't diminish the amusement that, essentially, the parking lot
> is big enough to have a toll on it.
>

I guess it is an efficient way to charge for parking throughout the 
airport.  One entrance, one exit - 200 parking lots for short term parking.

It also helps to keep the traffic down some - stay too long and start 
paying.  So tell your friend to get over the scrapes as you shove him 
out of a moving car.

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On 8/26/2010 3:16 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:
>
> You can take the frontage road and avoid the toll, at least I did when I
> was last at DFW (a few years ago now).
>

You can do that? Huh... I had no idea.

Well... the toll booths serve a dual purpose, really. You're paying for 
parking. If you leave your vehicle in the lot next to the terminal, you 
get charged by the day (or hour, depending on how long you're there) It 
used to be a nice shortcut for people getting from north of the airport 
to south of the airport, though now the new turnpike makes it less 
tempting to use as a shortcut.

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On 8/26/2010 9:57 AM, Tom Austin wrote:

>
> I guess I am likely to get a nice letter int he mail stating that I owe
> $3.43 in tolls and $135 in fines for not paying the tolls int he first
> place.
>

Yeah, what Darren said ... The rental company will probably absorb the 
toll fees. Either that or they'll send you a bill for the tolls... But 
there's no fine.

What's fun is the 190 turnpike (George Bush Turnpike) used to have toll 
booths, but they move to all-electronic. So you have these huge slabs of 
concrete collecting dust...

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~Mike

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On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 11:50:51 -0500, Mike Raiford wrote:

> On 8/26/2010 3:16 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:
>>
>> You can take the frontage road and avoid the toll, at least I did when
>> I was last at DFW (a few years ago now).
>>
>>
> You can do that? Huh... I had no idea.

I didn't either the first time - but then was rather annoyed when the nav 
system in the car put me on a toll road for < 0.25 mile (basically I had 
to pay getting on and getting off two ramps), so I (think I) asked my 
class about it, and they told me about the frontage roads.

Maybe it's changed since then, it's been probably 5 years ago now (where 
DOES the time go?)

> Well... the toll booths serve a dual purpose, really. You're paying for
> parking. If you leave your vehicle in the lot next to the terminal, you
> get charged by the day (or hour, depending on how long you're there) It
> used to be a nice shortcut for people getting from north of the airport
> to south of the airport, though now the new turnpike makes it less
> tempting to use as a shortcut.

Hmmm...

Jim

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Jim Henderson wrote:
> system in the car put me on a toll road for < 0.25 mile (basically I had 
> to pay getting on and getting off two ramps), so I (think I) asked my 
> class about it, and they told me about the frontage roads.

Yeah. That's the other expressways around there. I don't think that's the 
road actually inside the airport.

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On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 13:14:30 -0700, Darren New wrote:

> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> system in the car put me on a toll road for < 0.25 mile (basically I
>> had to pay getting on and getting off two ramps), so I (think I) asked
>> my class about it, and they told me about the frontage roads.
> 
> Yeah. That's the other expressways around there. I don't think that's
> the road actually inside the airport.

Yeah, that short toll bit wasn't near the airport, but the frontage roads 
I was talking about were in/out of the airport property.

Jim

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