avoiding toll roads

Of course, but you're turning an hour and a half drive into a three-hour project. The toll's only five or six euro, the stop and go business might eat up more gas than that. Note: the above might be a tad bogus. The only toll booth I can recall is ten or so miles east of Vicenza - - if it was the entire toll operation (not just paying for a ticket you snagged earlier) - - you could use the high-speed roads most of the way. If you want to do it your way, either have a gps with a no-tolls option or get a good map. I've only made that run a couple of times before the toll roads went in and it seems like the route number was changing at every cross-roads. It also seems like the old way is now criss-crossing the present freeway.

You can go via the SR-11, but that is a 2-lane road that crosses the urban areas of more than a dozen cities as local streets or avenues, full of traffic lights, speed bumps, and of course reduced speeds. It will take more than 3 hours to complete a trip via SR-11. ========== @Ed: A57 and A4 operates as a closed-system toll highway from Mira-Ortago exist westward, so your suggestions is not workable at all.

The toll from Venice to Vicenza (Est) is just under 5 euro. Takes me about 30-35 minutes but I drive like the Italians. I abhor the SR11, it takes forever and there are constant lights and traffic.

Thanks for all the advice. I think there might be some routes that are more scenic that the faster toll roads but this doesn't sound like one of them.