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Don't think this little bit of flim-flam is confined to CR--the on-ramp to the AC Expressway just raised the toll to 40 cents and who carries the dime and the nickle readily available? It's an automated toll-collection so they get an extra dime every time (at least from me) or a 100% raise while still piously claiming only a small bump. A big thing?--no, but a thing nevertheless.

JohnAZ said: They should have made the toll 299....then almost no one would ask for change and the attendant could pocket a nice piece o change every xmas.

Escazú Tolls More Expensive Today

Beginning today the cost of the tolls for automobiles and motorcycles at the Escazú toll station on the San José - Caldera highway increases by ¢10 colones.

The tolls today is ¢320 and not the ¢310 drivers have to pay since the beginning of the toll charges three months ago.

The increase is based on the right by Autopistas del Sol, the concession holder for the highway, to adjust toll prices every three months.

Toll charges for heavy vehicles and buses stay the same.

Taxi passengers will have to pay autopista tolls, price regulating agency orders
By the A.M. Costa Rica staff

Taxi drivers got a break Wednesday when the price regulating agency announced that passengers have to pay tolls.

The issue never really came up when highway tolls were about 100 colons.

Now the concessionaire for the Autopista del Sol, the
former Autopista Próspero Fernández, is collecting 310 colons at two plazas. That is about 52 U.S. cents each.

The Authoridad Reguladora de Servicios Públicos said that the passenger should pay in addition to the regular fare because it is the passenger who decides which route to take. That payment of the toll is only when the passenger is aboard the taxi, the Authoridad noted. In other words, a taxi driver cannot collect for a return trip when the vehicle is empty.

These Ticos don't want to pay the toll