Similar logic allows a toll at certain hours during the day on the road from San Jose to the airport (PAn AM Hwy??) - the toll is really low; they can't collect all that much, and it can really slow traffic, which is heavy in that location to begin with.
While I'm on the subject - unless things have changed in the last few months - Costa Rica takes 15+ years and gods know how much money to build the San Jose - Jaco autopista, but you would never know it (unless you knew via previous knowledge) because there are no signs on the main road from SJO to downtown San Jose directing you - the road has been finished, what, 2 years+ - and still - not one sign on the main route to and from the Airport - If its not the Pan American Highway, sorry for not referring to it by the correct name - to me - muy tico be damned - no excuse for not marking how you get to it - I know Costa Rica has an "aversion" to things as simple as street addresses, but this thing with no signage has always confused and bothered me.
Not the end of the world if you have to take the "old" route to Jaco - but the new toll road is much better - and safer
