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发帖数: 36302 | 1 IPASS要接近100%涨价了。
西郊南边还好，可以走55。北边就惨了，355/88你逃不过。
Tollway Board Approves Steep Toll Increase
August 25, 2011 5:31 AM
The Illinois Tollway Board is set to vote on a plan that includes major toll
hikes. (Credit: CBS)
DOWNERS GROVE, Ill. (CBS) — The cost of tolls will nearly double under a
plan approved by the Illinois Toll Highway Authority Board Thursday.
The board of directors approved a plan to increase tolls, by 35 cents for I-
Pass users, and 70 cents for cash payers.
Basic I-Pass toll rates will increase from 40 cents to 75 cents, with those
who use cash to pay $1.50. Some toll plazas will cost as much as $1.90 for I
-Pass.
The hike takes effect in January.
For I-Pass users, tolls have not increased in nearly 30 years, Illinois Toll
Highway Authority executive director Kristi LaFleur said.
“Seventy-five percent of our drivers haven’t seen an increase in 1983,”
LaFleur said on the CBS 2 Morning News Thursday. “We have some of the
lowest rates in the country.”
Revenue from the toll hike would pay for a number of new projects —
reconstruction of the Jane Addams Tollway, reconstruction I-90 from O’Hare
International Airport to Rockford for the first time in 50 years,
construction of a south suburban interchange between I-294 and I-57 and
construction of an additional leg of the Elgin-O’Hare Expressway that still
connects neither Elgin nor O’Hare.
The Tollway says the “Move Illinois” projects would create up to 120,000
jobs.
But motorists Thursday were none too thrilled about paying higher tolls.
Ellie Stearlman headed to work Thursday morning from her home in
Libertyville, and topped off her tank at the local gas station. But she
knows it takes more than just the cost of fuel to get there.
“I go to right about Lake Cook Road in Riverwoods, and I pay the toll
getting off at Lake Cook, and getting back on there and back, so it’s $2
for me every day,” Stearman said.
So the idea of the tolls doubling is not welcome news.
“I think it’s pretty ridiculous. It’s already $2, which I think is kind
of a lot to begin with, and I don’t know what they’re using this money for
, but it’s a lot,” Stearlman said.
But those who have heard the purpose for the money seem to be getting behind
the plan. The Sun-Times Media Wire reported Wednesday that Gov. Pat Quinn
called the support for the plan “overwhelming.”
LaFleur echoed that sentiment on the CBS 2 Morning News Thursday.
“Well I think what we heard from the public was that the hearings and the
hearing process that there was overwhelming support for the proposal and the
capital projects,” LaFleur said.
She said the toll hike is necessary to quicken commute times and solve the
congestion problem.
“Eighty-six percent of the feedback was positive, and what people are
telling us is that congestion is the real problem here, and they want to
solve it,” LaFleur said. “They’re tired of sitting in traffic. They’re
tired of sitting on the Jane Addams, and they really want to solve the
congestion problem that’s plaguing our city.”
The Tollway has been holding public hearings in the suburbs all through the
past week, and the plan has also seen a substantial number of backers at the
hearings.
Contractors, engineering firms, and labor union representatives lined up to
show support.
“I got my driver’s license in 1983, when the last toll increase happened.
Gas cost $1.35 a gallon. I can’t believe that we haven’t had a toll
increase since then,” one supporter said.
But Jeff Criel of Libertyville doubted that the toll hike was necessary even
for the projects the Tollway plans to undertake.
“That’s tough to sell because 94 was totally redone. I know 90 has to get
redone, but I don’t know if doubling the tolls is necessary to do that,”
Criel said. “It would basically double my toll every day. I hit two tolls
going down 94 and out to 90.” | f*****8
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From the capital plan - $12 Billion in 15 years (2012-2026), it seems it "
Will" ...
Another issue is what about the tolls after 2026? Assuming this project get
covered from toll increase ($12B) in 15 years.
【在 f*****8 的大作中提到】
: 怕怕中。。。不知道90， 294 会不会涨
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发帖数: 28013 | 4 涨一倍也就是1块钱到2块钱的变化啊。
房租几个月就涨个100块那才会死人的。 |
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