HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. (AP) - One of South Carolina’s two toll roads may stop charging people to drive on it.
Hilton Head Island officials are considering ending the tolls for the Cross Island Parkway about a year ahead of schedule, The Island Packet of Hilton Head reports.
The $1.25 toll which allows drivers to bypass congested sections of the island has not been collected since March 20 to protect employees and drivers from the coronavirus.
Island officials plan to talk to the South Carolina Department of Transportation about just dropping the toll, which was scheduled to expire in July 2021 when the state makes it last payment on the $81 million road which opened in 1998.
“Do people want to engage with toll booth workers and exchange money? It’s scheduled to expire next summer, but how we make it stop right now?” Hilton Head Island town manager Steve Riley said on a teleconference about COVID-19.
South Carolina’s other toll road is the Southern Connect in Greenville, which is about 30 years from being paid off.
The road is still collecting tolls, but instead of accepting cash is mailing bills to drivers who don’t have an electronic pass, according to the connector’s website.
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