In a new development in the "transponder war" between Illinois and Indiana, the conflict surrounding toll road cooperation between the two states escalated recently despite a concession offered last Wednesday by Indiana Toll Road ITR officials, who rescinded their earlier refusal to extend toll-rate discounts to I-PASS customers, the Chicago Tribune reported. The dispute implies that electronic-toll collection has failed to fully live up to its promotion as a seamless convenience free from bureaucratic regulations imposed over multiple jurisdictional boundaries, the paper said.
The board of the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority approved a resolution May 31 which would counter the perceived discrimination against I-PASS customers driving in Indiana by taking action against users of I-Zoom, Indiana's electronic toll-collection system scheduled to launch soon on the Indiana Toll Road, the Tribune reported.
Electronic tolling is set to begin in mid-June on the first 23 miles of the Indiana Toll Road, from the Illinois border to Portage, the Tribune reports, saying that no discounts initially will be offered to drivers, according to ITR Concession Co.
The discounts are scheduled to begin when electronic tolling is available on the entire mile Indiana Toll Road, which stretches to the Ohio border. E-ZPass SM is the most common form of electronic toll collection. E-ZPass SM makes your travel convenient and saves you time. All you need is a transponder in your vehicle and you can simply drive through E-ZPass SM designated toll lanes. Your toll is debited from a pre-paid account. View map here. Read more here.
The possibility of subsidizing drivers who use other states' transponders didn't come up. Even now, some Hoosiers wonder what the fuss is about. So no, it's not a threat to the college fund if you think of the Indiana Toll Road as miles of asphalt on the way to someplace else.
Indiana: Gateway to Ohio. Those who drive back and forth across the state line with some regularity, though, are in for some aggravation. We can equip our cars with both transponders in an attempt to qualify for both discounts, but that will probably cause the electronic system to charge us twice. Or we can retaliate. Illinois "will have to give careful consideration to making I-Zoom holders ineligible for the electronic tolling discount for travel on the Illinois Tollway," McPartlin wrote.
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