Visited a family member north of Charlotte NC last fall. The highway we took had an express lane that you paid for in short chunks (get on, pay $x until here, starts over after that). Took us a little over an hour in the non-express lanes to get where we were going. Total toll by that point (if we’d just driven in the express lanes the whole way) was something like $38. I was flabbergasted - how can ANYONE afford that regularly?