OK. After half an hour I've struggle, I've finally got it! I've found the new Google Maps to be a bit of a chore, if not a bore. The boring part? Trying to figure out how to work the thing.
In any case, the key to turning off tolls in the new Google Maps is to find the silly routes icon. It has thick vertical lines and thin horizontal lines and all these lines going that way and this way are supposed to signify all the different routes you could take. Looks more like the Chinese character for confusion to me. Not that I know anything about Chinese.
If that description doesn't help, look for the words Leave now. The routes icon is to the right of the words leave now
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If that doesn't work, follow these steps:
- Google Google Maps
- Click on Google Maps. It will be your first choice in the search results.
- Mouse over the icon that looks like a the letter Y with an arrow coming out of the top of it and going to the right. The icon is the driving directions icon. When you mouse over it, it says Directions. The word directions is the tooltip.
- Click on the driving directions icon. A dialog will open up that allows you to enter both a departure address and a destination address.
- It's only after you've entered a departure point and a destination point that the routes icon appears. Remember! It's the thing that looks like a Chinese character that can't decide which way it is going.
- Click on the routes icon.
- Now checkmark tolls to turn off tolls.
I have a 95-year-old relative who cannot do anything that has more than 3 steps. I'm not sure she's even seen the Internet or the World Wide Web. She's certainly never been online.
While most of us are not 95, many us of prefer websites to be totally clear, if possible. Clarity is nice!
Ed Abbott
