Options to fight tollway congestion
Is widening is the only solution to the congestion on the Tri-State Tollway?
What if they drastically raise the daytime tolls for trucks? For example, at the northbound Balmoral exit, there is only a $2 difference between the daytime toll of $8 versus an after 10 p.m. toll of $6 for overnight. Have they studied the effect of raising the toll for trucks between 95th and Balmoral to $15 or $20 per plaza during daytime hours?
I travel I-355 when the Tri-State backs up, and it certainly is not as busy as the Tri-State. Maybe tolls of this magnitude would shift traffic away from the Tri-State and spare us all from this nightmare (again).
Maria Pasquinelli
Flossmoor
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