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Published on December 18, 2025 at 9:58 am
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Do Florida tolls take a toll on your wallet? There’s a chance a change could leave you with more change.
Gov. Ron DeSantis is floating freeing Florida residents from roadway tolls. He thinks tourists could cover the cost.
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“You could charge the visitors, and they could probably support it all and give our Florida residents a break,” he said at Wednesday’s Florida Cabinet meeting.
Tolls are used to maintain and operate certain highways. They also pay off bond debt from construction.
“They’ve been here since I can remember, like as a kid they had the tolls on the turnpike,” DeSantis said. “At what point is all this going to be paid off?”
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Florida has previously offered frequent toll road users a half-off credit, saving many hundreds of dollars in a year.
Toll roads in Florida reportedly collect more than $2 billion annually.
The governor was speaking to Ben Watkins, Florida’s bond finance director, who responded, “We’ll take a look at that.”
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