{"id":88858,"date":"2025-12-19T03:50:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T03:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/88858\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T03:50:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T03:50:08","slug":"gov-desantis-suggests-eliminating-tolls-for-florida-drivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/88858\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov. DeSantis suggests eliminating tolls for Florida drivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tGov. Ron DeSantis has proposed eliminating tolls for Florida drivers, suggesting that tourists and seasonal residents could help free Floridians from turnpike system tolls during a Florida Cabinet meeting focused on affordability.Your neighborhood: Local coverage from WPBF 25 News&#8221;About two billion dollars is collected annually on the Florida Turnpike,&#8221; DeSantis said, emphasizing the need to reassess how toll revenue is collected.Get the latest news updates with the WPBF 25 News app. You can download it here.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tTALLAHASSEE, Fla. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Gov. Ron DeSantis has proposed eliminating tolls for Florida drivers, suggesting that tourists and seasonal residents could help free Floridians from turnpike system tolls during a Florida Cabinet meeting focused on affordability.<\/p>\n<p>Your neighborhood: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpbf.com\/local-news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Local coverage from WPBF 25 News<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;About two billion dollars is collected annually on the Florida Turnpike,&#8221; DeSantis said, emphasizing the need to reassess how toll revenue is collected.<\/p>\n<p>Get the latest news updates with the WPBF 25 News app. You can download it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpbf.com\/article\/get-wpbf-25-news-on-the-go\/999316\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gov. Ron DeSantis has proposed eliminating tolls for Florida drivers, suggesting that tourists and seasonal residents could help&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88859,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[836,25247,28,48144,7881,30,29,21135,47927,21635,48142,675,677,5127,48143,47923,19593,47926,189],"class_list":["post-88858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-affordability","tag-dollar","tag-florida","tag-florida-cabinet-meeting","tag-florida-driver","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-florida-turnpike","tag-free-floridians","tag-gov-desantis","tag-gov-desantis-suggests-eliminating-tolls-for-florida-drivers","tag-local-coverage","tag-neighborhood","tag-news-app","tag-seasonal-resident","tag-toll","tag-tourist","tag-turnpike-system-toll","tag-wpbf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}