Via the Illinois Tollway Authority: State and local officials late last week kicked off a project for a new all-electronic toll collection exit ramp from the northbound Tri-State Tollway to Balmoral Avenue. The partnership between Rosemont and the Illinois Tollway Authority means the village will spend up to $26.5 million on the project, while the [...]
Via The Chicago Tribune’s Jon Hilkevitch and the Illinois Tollway Authority: The Illinois Tollway Authority’s website offers a new feature that will allow motorists an easier way to dispute tollroad violations they feel are incorrect. From the Tollway’s news release: Currently, customers who drive through toll plazas without paying cash, using active transponders or using [...]
Via The Chicago Tribune: Drivers who run out of gas or have a flat tire on the Illinois Tollway could soon find themselves getting an advertising pitch along with their rescue. Tollway officials announced plans Thursday to sell advertising space on the sides of the Highway Emergency Lane Patrol, or HELP, trucks that assist stranded [...]
Via the Chicago Tribune The plan, announced last month by the Illinois Tollway Authority, will shutter several oases gas stations and convenience store as 7-Eleven assumes leasing and sponsorship duties from ExxonMobil. Tollway officials approved ExxonMobil’s request to transfer the gas station lease to 7-Eleven, who will take over the remaining 17 years left on [...]
On New Year’s Day, I-Pass users will have to pay an extra 3 cents each time they pass through a booth on the Indiana Toll Road, the Times of Northwest Indiana reported on Friday. The new charge came about because the Illinois Tollway Authority in July began charging Indiana Toll Road Concession Co. a transaction [...]
The Chicago Tribune this week published a pretty good Q&A as Richard Wronski sat down with one of two new members of the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority Board, Paula Wolff. Among the insights gleaned : Wolff thinks audits are important, the tolls are within the national average and Wolff — who sits on the [...]
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