The debate - To use them or not to use them?
Lee had a meeting in Fort Worth this past weekend. The meeting started on Friday, so we decided to drive through the night on Thursday night. That decision was a brilliant one, if you don't mind me saying! Simply in the fact that we gave Gage a bottle about an hour into the trip, when we were already stopping to fill up, and he slept the rest of the way!!! Whew...that makes an 8 hr trip with a baby tolerable!!! (I'll tell you later about the drive home!)
So, as we are driving through Austin at 11:30 at night, we decided to stay on I-35, as there shouldn't be much traffic that late. Ha ha, I know, joke's on us! They had I-35 down to one lane through most of Austin! It took us an extra hour just to drive through Austin. Enter in: The Toll Roads
Soooo....on the way home, it's Sunday late afternoon, after a long weekend. We figure there will be more traffic then and decide to take the new Toll Road. This new road starts in Georgetown (about 30 miles N of Austin) and ends in Buda (about 30 miles S of Austin). I happen to have purchased a TX Toll Tag a few years ago, even though it is seldom used and every time we drive on it or through Austin, we talk about the pros/cons of using that road.
What we never have known how much it costs to drive the entire length...until now. I just received the emailed bill and it cost us $16.80 to travel one direction, which means if we had used it both ways, we would have paid $33.70 to drive around Austin and avoid the traffic. That's the cost of a decent meal right there!
So...the debate. Will we continue using the Toll Road and pay $33.70 to drive around Austin...or are we willing to sacrifice the time and sanity of messing with the traffic??? It will be interesting to see. I know that as we sat in traffic for an hour at midnight on Thursday, I would have paid the money. But probably been pretty hacked!
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