T*R
发帖数: 36302 | 1 五毛的主要缺点是经常缺乏对美国生活的第一手资料，所以维护政府不给力。
就说这个高速收费吧，明明CHICAGO比土共还狠，可是五毛不看英语新闻，就不知道。
最近ILLINOIS这个收费的事争论的很厉害，IPASS最低收费从40C一下跳到75C，这个接
近100%涨价了。可是老百姓反对根本没戏。当然政府理由基本和土共一样的。但是
CHICAGO的几个着名小将是基本不开车不看/听英语新闻的，估计都是学校里的F1/J1，
所以这么好的素材都放过了。
75C还是IPASS最低收费，很多口DOUBLE都不只，最高是1.95刀。这是IPASS，CASH收费
是DOUBLE的。本来40C的口，CASH是80C。现在CASH最低是1.5刀了。
从我家去OHARE机场，来回50MILE，合80公里，要过355，88，294的6个收费口，新的收
费标准，涨价后收费就要5到8块，和3，50块人民币了，这还是IPASS。CASH收费是
DOUBLE。估计最高可能要100块RMB了。
所以天下乌鸦是一般黑的。老美以前还好，现在DEM控制的蓝州，比土共还狠啊。
Tollway Board Approves Steep Toll Increase
August 25, 2011 5:31 AM
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The Illinois Tollway Board is set to vote on a plan that includes major toll
hikes. (Credit: CBS)
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DOWNERS GROVE, Ill. (CBS) — The cost of tolls will nearly double under a
plan approved by the Illinois Toll Highway Authority Board Thursday.
The board of directors approved a plan to increase tolls, by 35 cents for I-
Pass users, and 70 cents for cash payers.
Basic I-Pass toll rates will increase from 40 cents to 75 cents, with those
who use cash to pay $1.50. Some toll plazas will cost as much as $1.90 for I
-Pass.
The hike takes effect in January.
LISTEN: WBBM Newsradio Political Editor Craig Dellimore reports
For I-Pass users, tolls have not increased in nearly 30 years, Illinois Toll
Highway Authority executive director Kristi LaFleur said.
“Seventy-five percent of our drivers haven’t seen an increase in 1983,”
LaFleur said on the CBS 2 Morning News Thursday. “We have some of the
lowest rates in the country.”
Revenue from the toll hike would pay for a number of new projects —
reconstruction of the Jane Addams Tollway, reconstruction I-90 from O’Hare
International Airport to Rockford for the first time in 50 years,
construction of a south suburban interchange between I-294 and I-57 and
construction of an additional leg of the Elgin-O’Hare Expressway that still
connects neither Elgin nor O’Hare.
The Tollway says the “Move Illinois” projects would create up to 120,000
jobs.
But motorists Thursday were none too thrilled about paying higher tolls.
Ellie Stearlman headed to work Thursday morning from her home in
Libertyville, and topped off her tank at the local gas station. But she
knows it takes more than just the cost of fuel to get there.
“I go to right about Lake Cook Road in Riverwoods, and I pay the toll
getting off at Lake Cook, and getting back on there and back, so it’s $2
for me every day,” Stearman said.
So the idea of the tolls doubling is not welcome news.
“I think it’s pretty ridiculous. It’s already $2, which I think is kind
of a lot to begin with, and I don’t know what they’re using this money for
, but it’s a lot,” Stearlman said.
But those who have heard the purpose for the money seem to be getting behind
the plan. The Sun-Times Media Wire reported Wednesday that Gov. Pat Quinn
called the support for the plan “overwhelming.”
LaFleur echoed that sentiment on the CBS 2 Morning News Thursday.
“Well I think what we heard from the public was that the hearings and the
hearing process that there was overwhelming support for the proposal and the
capital projects,” LaFleur said.
She said the toll hike is necessary to quicken commute times and solve the
congestion problem.
“Eighty-six percent of the feedback was positive, and what people are
telling us is that congestion is the real problem here, and they want to
solve it,” LaFleur said. “They’re tired of sitting in traffic. They’re
tired of sitting on the Jane Addams, and they really want to solve the
congestion problem that’s plaguing our city.”
The Tollway has been holding public hearings in the suburbs all through the
past week, and the plan has also seen a substantial number of backers at the
hearings.
Contractors, engineering firms, and labor union representatives lined up to
show support.
“I got my driver’s license in 1983, when the last toll increase happened.
Gas cost $1.35 a gallon. I can’t believe that we haven’t had a toll
increase since then,” one supporter said.
But Jeff Criel of Libertyville doubted that the toll hike was necessary even
for the projects the Tollway plans to undertake.
“That’s tough to sell because 94 was totally redone. I know 90 has to get
redone, but I don’t know if doubling the tolls is necessary to do that,”
Criel said. “It would basically double my toll every day. I hit two tolls
going down 94 and out to 90.” | h******8
发帖数: 3778 | | m*****e
发帖数: 10963 | 3 妈的，话说这个芝加哥的高速收费真鸡巴变态，我还被罚过300块，，罚单竟然是追着
寄到我在的州的 | S******8
发帖数: 24594 | 4 垃圾人口的比例在50个州里面名列前茅，州政府的腐败又高居全美第一
中产阶级有苦头吃了 | s*****r
发帖数: 43070 | | m********c
发帖数: 13337 | 6 此帖必沉。
【在 T*R 的大作中提到】
: 五毛的主要缺点是经常缺乏对美国生活的第一手资料，所以维护政府不给力。
: 就说这个高速收费吧，明明CHICAGO比土共还狠，可是五毛不看英语新闻，就不知道。
: 最近ILLINOIS这个收费的事争论的很厉害，IPASS最低收费从40C一下跳到75C，这个接
: 近100%涨价了。可是老百姓反对根本没戏。当然政府理由基本和土共一样的。但是
: CHICAGO的几个着名小将是基本不开车不看/听英语新闻的，估计都是学校里的F1/J1，
: 所以这么好的素材都放过了。
: 75C还是IPASS最低收费，很多口DOUBLE都不只，最高是1.95刀。这是IPASS，CASH收费
: 是DOUBLE的。本来40C的口，CASH是80C。现在CASH最低是1.5刀了。
: 从我家去OHARE机场，来回50MILE，合80公里，要过355，88，294的6个收费口，新的收
: 费标准，涨价后收费就要5到8块，和3，50块人民币了，这还是IPASS。CASH收费是
| S******8
发帖数: 24594 | 7 伊州这几年确实是太过分了
芝加哥的政客把midway机场的经验权卖掉，把市区街边停车收费的经营权卖掉（现在已
经没有免费街爬了），大幅消减教育经费，砍掉了很多学区的校车，大幅上涨州税，从
3%上涨到5%，连续3任州长都因为腐败而进监狱，现在又要涨告诉收费了！要知道大部
分州的高速根本就不收费的！房价一年一年的跌，他妈的房产税涨的比中国的房价还快
！ | k******1
发帖数: 2883 | 8 有了个米犹市长，跪安吧。
【在 S******8 的大作中提到】
: 伊州这几年确实是太过分了
: 芝加哥的政客把midway机场的经验权卖掉，把市区街边停车收费的经营权卖掉（现在已
: 经没有免费街爬了），大幅消减教育经费，砍掉了很多学区的校车，大幅上涨州税，从
: 3%上涨到5%，连续3任州长都因为腐败而进监狱，现在又要涨告诉收费了！要知道大部
: 分州的高速根本就不收费的！房价一年一年的跌，他妈的房产税涨的比中国的房价还快
: ！
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