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I just stop taking toll roads.
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Getting harder and harder if you wish to escape from Long Island. The only toll free way at the moment of escaping here is via one of the old East River bridges (Brooklyn, Manhattan, Williamsburg, 59th Street). The tunnels (Brooklyn Battery and Queens Midtown) and newer bridges (Throggs Neck, Whitestone and Triboro) are all tolled by MTA. And the way they keep talking, pretty soon the old bridges will be tolled too due to "congestion pricing"
Right now the best toll free way to get off Long Island IMHO is the 59th Street Bridge to the FDR Drive. Take FDR Drive up to the Willis Avenue Bridge and you are in the Bronx toll free. I've done it a few times but the traffic and time involved is significant. Add to that, if you want to cross the Hudson River, it is free to go west but tolled to return heading east. You have to go up to around Albany to cross east toll-free.