Florida is very toll road happy. In addition, maps, both on our GPS and on Google, are decidedly unreliable here. I’m unaccustomed to needing to keep spare change in the car in case I have an unplanned trip or find a misbehaving toll machine, such as the 2nd to the left west bound lane on the Pinellas Bayway (falsely labeled “exact change” in this case), which took about $1.00 of change before deciding we’d paid the 50 cent toll. From their websites it looks like if you don’t pay, they photograph your license plate, ding your driving record, and send you a bill for somewhere around $175, depending on the road.
For those booths that are accepting the correct amounts, here are the charges:
- Tampa-Hillsborough Expressway Authority Toll Calculator for the Selmon Crosstown Expressway (Hwy 618)
- Florida’s Turnpike Enterprise Toll Calculator for everything else
Buying a SunPass transponder (prepayed) saves you a quarter to fifty cents on the larger toll amounts compared to cash.
This is not complete, but here’s a map of some of Tampa Bay’s toll booths:
