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Honorary Yooper3/16/2009 7:58:00 am PDT

re: #718 lawhawk

Good analysis on the mileage tax, but you are a bit off on the subject of toll roads and systems like EZPass. In Illinois, we have over 75% of tollway users using IPass, thus cutting down majorly on congestion and pollution. In addition, unlike some of the eastern states, we’ve converted the entire system so that there is no stopping or slowing down for mainline toll plazas. As such the two streams of traffic (IPass/EZPass using and cash only) are split, causing no delays for the IPass traffic.