The American Spectator

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Peter Hannaford describes only the proverbial tip of the iceberg in the needless congestion on Illinois highways caused by the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority. Arrogant bureaucrats, poorly thought out lane closures by engineers, and disingenuous schemes to collect ever more money from toll ways users has been the norm.

One example has been the introduction of open road tolling whereby transponders in cars allow drivers to proceed under an "electronic bridge" and thereby pay the toll without stopping. But then engineers configure the lanes so that the backup from the drivers paying cash is so long that drivers with transponders can't get to the lanes with the open road tolling.

As another example, a "deposit" is required to get the transponder. But the process to claim the "deposit" is sufficiently burdensome and inconvenient that the "deposit" is effectively a payment, as few drivers are likely to go through the process.

p>And of course, there was the never-fulfilled promise that once the original toll ways were paid for, the tolls were to have been eliminated. br> -- Jim Jastrzembski /p> p> RESEARCH, NOT BIAS br> Re: Alvin McEwen's letter (under "Not Buying") in Reader Mail's Coulter Design and Robert Seidenberg's Gay Behavior vs. Public Health : /p>

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