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Ken Burton
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Well, tolls in Indiana are only charged on the "Indiana Toll Road" which runs between Chicago and the Ohio state line (I-90). The Toll Road was built when I was a kid in elementary school and I am now 78 years old. At that time the Interstate highway system did not exist so the toll road system, and turnpike systems in Ohio Pennsylvania etc. came about to make an express route between Chicago and the east coast cities. In most cases it was financed by the individual states with the idea that out of state users would repay the debt rather than the in state taxpayers. When the debt was repaid the roads would revert to the individual states DOT and become free to use and maintenance expense would come from state gasoline taxes like all other state or federal highways. Kentucky is the only state that I know of that actually did this and converted their roads to free use when the bonds were paid off.
Illinois is an interesting system because they decided to make their own toll system primarily around Chicago and the collar counties and collect usage money from both in state and out of state users. They currently collect just short of $1,000,000 PER DAY and still never manage to pay off their bonds. Other free Illinois highways in the Chicago area are not up to the traffic level and quality (I use that term loosely) of the Toll Roads. So if you want to move to or through the area you need to use their toll toad system or spend extra hours getting through the area. The other thing they have done is to charge double to out of state users because most do not have a transponder usable in that state.
So what I was trying to do was give you a way to get through the area with minimum tolls in Illinois and Indiana.
Ken B.
Ken Burton - N9KB
76 Palm Beach
Hebron, Indiana
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