Eliminating tollways best collection fix

Breaking the law is wrong when the so-called "toll cheats" drive the tollway without paying. However, these drivers fall just short of being heroes when one understands the frustration they must feel about an unjust law.

These drivers are willing to fight a cronyism laden tollway system while knowing of the consequences should they be caught.

They want an end to an unfair double toll/tax system of paying a road tax at the fuel pump and being taxed again at a tollbooth.

They know that over 50 cents of every dollar collected at the tollbooth goes just for the collecting and not for road upkeep.

I own an I-Pass, not because I know that there's a law against running a tollbooth or that the tollway system is such a great deal. It's not, but I don't want to be hassled by the toll authority's bureaucracy.

Our state legislators are not any better than those of the toll authority as they have the final say as to whether or not we have a tollway system in Illinois. During the 1950s it was the state legislature that promised us that the Illinois tollway would become a freeway once the roads were paid for. That promise was not kept. Now Michael Madigan wants to make more roads part of the tollway system.

Let's not go after the so-called "toll cheats." Let's vote for change by going after the state legislators by not voting for any incumbent on Feb. 5 or in November.

Russell Johnson

Sugar Grove