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So on Thursday, October 11th my daughter & I set off for our Minnesota trip and crossed the border at Sarnia. Everything was going smoothly until I discovered somehow, after stopping for gas around Lansing Michigan, I managed to get on 96 heading southeast toward Detroit instead of continuing 69 southwest. Yeah, we made it almost all the way to Detroit.
With the help of a couple at Starbucks we found our way onto 96/94 westbound to continue the correct way. They taught me how to use Google Maps much better (ie, turning into a vocal GPS instructional map).
Enter the toll roads. I kept seeing signs above stating to stay in this lane to pay electronic. In my own limited defense by the time we entered Illinois I was tired, rattled and checking we were going the right way every few minutes. I haven't driven in the States by myself before. There were signs everywhere talking about cash payment, ipass, electronic, exit tolls, etc. I thought electronic meant debit or visa. (Feel free to laugh - no offense will be taken. I'm an idiot, I know.
) I had my daughter dig out my US funds Visa and kept it tucked under my leg. No matter how far I drove I never saw a toll. Around Rockford IL my tired brain vaguely recalled reading something on DIS a few weeks earlier about paying tolls online.
Sure enough the Illinois Tollway online shows my plate missing tolls on Oct 11 and 12th, which I should have paid by the 17th I was told. Paid by Visa online today.
Question 1) Driving through Illinois on the way home I tried to stop at the cash toll option but I know I missed 1 for sure, maybe 2. My plate search does not pull up anything for the 14th and 15th. I image because I'm still within the 7-day grace period. But I don't know which ones I missed. I didn't know I had to keep track. I thought the website would post them through my license plate but I guess they don't until the 7-day period has passed. Do I, at this point, need to wait until day 8 or 9 to search and find the unpaid toll and then pay it? Is there another way to find the unpaid toll before then?
Question 2 I'm trying to figure out if the other States I drove through had tolls. I don't recall. It doesn't look like Michigan does (beyond crossing the border). What about Indiana? Wisconsin? Minnesota?
EDITED: Indiana - from what I see online, it looks like Indiana only has a toll road along I-90/I-80 called Indiana Toll Road. I drove along 94 west curving along Lake Michigan and onto 294 north. I guess I'm fine in Indiana then.
Minnesota - found a phone number and was assured I'm fine. No toll or fine for me to worry about.
Wisconsin - doesn't look like they have toll roads.
With the help of a couple at Starbucks we found our way onto 96/94 westbound to continue the correct way. They taught me how to use Google Maps much better (ie, turning into a vocal GPS instructional map).
Enter the toll roads. I kept seeing signs above stating to stay in this lane to pay electronic. In my own limited defense by the time we entered Illinois I was tired, rattled and checking we were going the right way every few minutes. I haven't driven in the States by myself before. There were signs everywhere talking about cash payment, ipass, electronic, exit tolls, etc. I thought electronic meant debit or visa. (Feel free to laugh - no offense will be taken. I'm an idiot, I know.
) I had my daughter dig out my US funds Visa and kept it tucked under my leg. No matter how far I drove I never saw a toll. Around Rockford IL my tired brain vaguely recalled reading something on DIS a few weeks earlier about paying tolls online.Sure enough the Illinois Tollway online shows my plate missing tolls on Oct 11 and 12th, which I should have paid by the 17th I was told. Paid by Visa online today.
Question 1) Driving through Illinois on the way home I tried to stop at the cash toll option but I know I missed 1 for sure, maybe 2. My plate search does not pull up anything for the 14th and 15th. I image because I'm still within the 7-day grace period. But I don't know which ones I missed. I didn't know I had to keep track. I thought the website would post them through my license plate but I guess they don't until the 7-day period has passed. Do I, at this point, need to wait until day 8 or 9 to search and find the unpaid toll and then pay it? Is there another way to find the unpaid toll before then?
Question 2 I'm trying to figure out if the other States I drove through had tolls. I don't recall. It doesn't look like Michigan does (beyond crossing the border). What about Indiana? Wisconsin? Minnesota?
EDITED: Indiana - from what I see online, it looks like Indiana only has a toll road along I-90/I-80 called Indiana Toll Road. I drove along 94 west curving along Lake Michigan and onto 294 north. I guess I'm fine in Indiana then.
Minnesota - found a phone number and was assured I'm fine. No toll or fine for me to worry about.
Wisconsin - doesn't look like they have toll roads.
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