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	Illinois Tollways
		North of the former Deerfield Road Toll Plaza the Tri-State is I-94, south of Deerfield to the junction with the Bishop Ford Freeway it is I-294.
		The Northwest Tollway was built in the late 50's and early 60's from the O'Hare area (at the Tri-State Tollway) to the WI line north of Rockford.
		The North-South Tollway is being extended southward to I-80 east of Joliet.
	www.n9jig.com /tollways.html (1578 words)

	Why tollways should be maintained all-year round? : Philippines : Gov.Ph : News
		As conceived, the North and South Luzon tollways were intended to be self-liquidating projects where the capital investments, including those of the national government, are to be recovered from the tolls collected from motorists, with an allowance for some margin to cover the costs of capital.
		Thus, although the old tollways sections were built in 1966-1970, funds may be collected not only to recover the initial capital costs, but also to maintain and operate these sections and to widen the roadways to accommodate additional traffic.
		The tollways concept was adopted by the Philippine government as a way of complementing its national infrastructure program with the use of private sector resources and expertise.
	www.gov.ph /news/default.asp?i=10400 (0 words)

	Colorado Hwys: CTE Tollways
		The two projects CTE is currently pursuing are 1) the remainder of Denver's beltway from Golden to US 36/Interlocken, referred to as the Northwest Corridor; and 2) turning the HOV lanes on I-25 north of downtown into HOT lanes (high occupancy or toll).
		Some of the cities and counties involved were going to form a Public Highway Authority to build the Northwest Corridor, but CTE has taken it under its wing.
		CTE has undertaken a toll route feasibility study to determine what corridors in the state would be good candidates for a new toll road or toll lanes on an existing road.
	www.mesalek.com /colo/ctetoll.html (0 words)

	Philippines tollways operators a serious tourism deterrent
		The reaction was to declare freeways dangerous for motorcycles and contrary to RA2000, ban motorcycles from limited access highways beginning in February of 1968.
		It means that any motorcyclists that do come tourists will have to stay away from any tourist destination requiring travel on the tollways or be forced to ride some of the most dangerous roads in the country (and in the world) during their stay.
		While most countries encourage motorcycle usage to reduce congestion, polution and parking problems the Philippines tollways are banning motorcycles while allowing smaoke belching dilapidated wrecks, often with faulty or no lights to cause traffic congestion and kill dozens of people each year.
	bantayturista.com /pages/tollways.php (1522 words)

	A VIEW FROM THE SUBURBS (Site not responding. Last check: )
		And that's how tollway politics has played itself out in the 44 years since public officials began promising to raze the booths as soon as the bonds that helped build them are retired.
		Most important, tollways are unlikely to become public freeways because they pave the way for a lucrative political power base.
		Indeed, the tollway remains one of the last bastions of political patronage.
	www.lib.niu.edu /ipo/1997/ii971145.html (657 words)

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		As conceived, the North and South Luzon tollways were intended to be self-liquidating projects where the capital investments, including those of the national government, are to be recovered from the tolls collected from motorists, with an allowance for some margin to cover the costs of capital.
		Thus, although the old tollways sections were built in 1966-1970, funds may be collected not only to recover the initial capital costs, but also to maintain and operate these sections and to widen the roadways to accommodate additional traffic.
		The tollways concept was adopted by the Philippine government as a way of complementing its national infrastructure program with the use of private sector resources and expertise.
	www.mb.com.ph /issues/2005/07/01/TOUR2005070138353.html (519 words)

	Conscious Choice: New Tollway Plans Point the Way to Sprawl
		The law also created ISTHA to finance and operate the tollways; however, the law made it clear that ISTHA was supposed to be temporary, existing only so long as it took for the revenues collected on the tollways to pay the costs of the roads.
		The proposed tollway would destroy sixty-nine wetlands, several of which are known to provide habitat for endangered species, according to the Woods and Wetlands chapter of the Illinois Sierra Club.
		Because most major employment centers are located well to the east of the proposed tollway extensions, these residents would have to travel long distances to get to their jobs and back — thus increasing traffic congestion in Lake County, rather than relieving it as ISTHA predicts.
	www.consciouschoice.com /1999/cc1208/tollwaysprawl1208.html (1557 words)

	Stories and articles at Frank Woolf's place on the web
		How can the the tollways have been designed or constructed exclusively for 4-or-more-wheeled vehicles when they were designed and built before the ban on motorcycles existed and are of exactly the same design as freeways anywhere else in the world where motorcycles allowed access like any other vehicle.
		It seems we are being asked to agree that as long as we don't allow motorcycles on the tollways because there may be an occasional accident it is OK for them to be forced into a situation where accidents are over 100 times more likely on the chaotic side streets.
		During the two years of unrestricted access to the tollways for motorcycles there was not one single accident or even incident reported involving a small bike on the freeways.
	frankwoolf.com /pages/hesaidwhat.php (3823 words)

	AP Wire \| 01/30/2007 \| Panel endorses bill giving Daniels authority to seek 2 tollways (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Daniels and Indiana Department of Transportation officials have said the two tollways would relieve congestion and fuel economic growth in surrounding areas.
		Others said lawmakers were moving too quickly in considering additional privately operated tollways after passing legislation last year that leased the Indiana Toll Road to a private foreign consortium for 75 years for $3.8 billion.
		Under the governor's plan, the state would contract with private investors who would collect toll fees to be set with state oversight and would pay the state a concession fee in exchange for the right to build, maintain and operate the tollway.
	www.fortwayne.com /mld/fortwayne/16580834.htm (649 words)

	Four Corners - 20/02/2006: Wheeling and Dealing
		Private tollways are catching on in Australia’s biggest cities, an experiment in controversial deals called Public Private Partnerships (PPPs).
		But private tollways are now under intense scrutiny in the wake of Sydney’s Cross City Tunnel fiasco and the outcry over street closures, high tolls and trade-offs that will curb public transport.
		And she asks why some experts are pointing to Perth as the city with the answer to traffic crisis.
	www.abc.net.au /4corners/content/2006/s1571546.htm (549 words)

	Category: 4 Issue Management (Site not responding. Last check: )
		After undergoing an image audit, a communication plan was designed to achieve the objective of positioning tollways as a more fair and better way of financing the country’s infrastructures.
		Tollways ceased to be constructed, and in their place free dual carriageways were built.
		ASETA needed to make known their position: the advantages of tollways and why private financing was the solution for the infrastructures.
	www.ipra.org /library/docs/gwa1143.htm (1264 words)

	Policy Study No (Site not responding. Last check: )
		France began using the concept in the 1960s to develop its extensive motorway system; in 1990 the French concession law was amended to expand the BOT concept to urban tollways, and in 1991 the government announced that the majority of a planned 2,900-mile expansion of the motorways would be carried out privately.
		Three pilot projects for new tollways were approved in 1992, but local opposition to tolls led to them being vetoed by the governor.
		The private tollway company will naturally select the pavement thickness that minimizes life-cycle costs, accepting a higher initial thickness (and hence, cost) if this will be offset by lower maintenance and reconstruction costs over the life of the facility.
	www.rppi.org /transportation/ps203.html (13214 words)

	Journal Gazette \| 01/24/2007 \| Wyss puts brakes on 2 tollways after hearing
		INDIANAPOLIS – Opponents of Gov. Mitch Daniels’ proposed tollway bypass of Indianapolis harshly criticized the project Tuesday, urging members of a Senate committee not to rush to endorse legislation that would grant the governor authority to pursue it and another tollway.
		Several said lawmakers were moving too quickly in considering additional privately operated tollways after passing legislation last year that leased the Indiana Toll Road to a private consortium for 75 years at a cost of $3.8 billion.
		Rob Schafstall of Franklin said approval of the tollways was being considered long before any analyses of the economic effects, routes and other questions about them had been studied.
	www.siliconvalley.com /mld/journalgazette/news/local/16533030.htm?source=rss&channel=journalgazette_local (686 words)

	Print Article: Tollways exact change in thinking
		This from the Government that came to power vowing to lift the toll on the M4.
		It increased traffic on MIG's M5 tollway by 25,000 cars a month, a bonus of $82,000 a month, and produced a drop in passengers on the East Hills and Bankstown rail lines.
		But getting a private operator to invest $1.4 billion in a road and then trying to dissuade people from using their cars won't be easy.
	www.smh.com.au /cgi-bin/common/popupPrintArticle.pl?path=/articles/2003/12/25/1072308627127.html (1414 words)

	Illinois State Toll Highway Authority Proposes Toll Increase for Rebuilding, Tollways, IBTTA Newletter
		The Illinois Tollway is a user-based system, receiving no state or federal tax dollars for daily operations.
		Supported by the Board of Directors, Illinois Tollway Chairman Arthur Philip said the 15-year capital construction program, which would begin to be funded by toll increases in 2002, is the only realistic and fiscally responsible solution that rebuilds and widens worn-out roadways as well as improve travel and relieves congestion.
		Without the proposed toll rate increase, the Illinois Tollway projects revenue shortfalls in late 2003 and is unable to address the critical rebuilding and widening desperately needed throughout the Illinois Tollway System.
	www.innovativefinance.org /news_innovations/06182002_illinois_state_toll.asp (479 words)

	Green light for joining all cash-free tollways - smh.com.au
		Nearly two years after electronic tolling became a reality on Sydney's roads, motorists may be only weeks away from driving anywhere in the city without having to pay cash.
		Two tollways have yet to be linked: the M4 from Concord to the base of the Blue Mountains and the M2 from Chatswood to Penrith.
		Operators of both claim to be within weeks of linking new electronic tolling systems to the network, with a start date of January 20 set for the M4.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/01/07/1041566413187.html (582 words)

	All Freeways W/Tollways - Houston Architecture Info Forum - HAIF®
		Texas's government had this plan tomake all of Texas's highways with tollways in the middle.
		Although there will be a tollway in the middle the freeways would still have freelanes.
		Anyway, all freeways are tollways, and all use "EZ Tag" equivalents.
	www.houstonarchitecture.info /haif/index.php?showtopic=8377 (705 words)

	Green Left - Why tollways are treacherous
		Sydney has become the world leader in the construction of private tollways, and Melbourne is following close behind.
		To construct these private tollways, state governments often sell public roads, parks and bush land to private companies.
		The M2 in Sydneys north-west is a classic example: the Liberal state government signed a contract with a private tollway company stating that if any new public transport was built in the area surrounding the new tollway in the next 45 years, then the taxpayers would compensate the private tollway company for loss of revenue.
	www.greenleft.org.au /1997/294/15714 (0 words)

	Lodging - Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The first commission meeting was held in the Governor's mansion on January 3, 1954 and the offices were officially opened in the State of Illinois Building, Room 1800, the following month. By May the Supreme Court had validated the legislation and the commission’s consultant had submitted a feasibility report.
		The report outlined a recommended expressway system for the entire state of which six routes were found to have potential as tollways.
		Toll revenues for the last five months of the year were sufficient to cover administrative costs, which had increased substantially along with the number of staff members operating the system (from 93 to 557).
	www.cookexpressways.com /chapter4.html (328 words)

	Computers and Tollways (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Each model is built on assumptions and sensitivities which the programmers adjust to get the answers that they think make sense.
		The best way to check whether one of these computer programs can predict the future is to ask it to predict the past, and see whether it gets the answer right.
		The most overlooked and remarkable thing about the Crossroads Study is that it’s answers matched our known data better than the models used by IDOT and the Tollway.
	illinois.sierraclub.org /w&w/LTE00114.html (261 words)

	cbs2chicago.com - Grand Jury Investigating State Tollways
		Tollway spokeswoman Michelle Damico confirmed the subpoena on Friday.
		The tollway has cooperated with the request and tollway officials haven't been called before the grand jury, Damico said.
		The October subpoena of the tollway documents is similar to the request DuPage County State's Attorney Joseph Birkett filed in March.
	cbs2chicago.com /politics/local_story_364152124.html (520 words)

	Bill giving Daniels authority to seek tollways clears Senate
		INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - The Senate endorsed a plan Monday that would give Gov. Mitch Daniels the authority to seek private developers for two major proposed highway projects: the 75-mile Indiana Commerce Connector, which would loop around part of Indianapolis, and the Illiana Expressway, which would span 50 miles of northwestern Indiana.
		Democrats said that was a bad financial deal and argued the state should not turn over a major asset to a private company, which they predicted would increase tolls continuously to make a big profit.
		Daniels said that money would help the state pay for the I-69 extension and allow that highway's entire route to be free of tolls.
	www.chestertontribune.com /Illiana/bill_giving_daniels_authority_to.htm (342 words)

	Metro Pacific impatient on tollway talks with Benpres
		Talks on the stake in Manila North Tollways, operator of the 80-kilometer North Luzon Expressway, have dragged on for more than a year and "have not made any significant progress," he said.
		An agreement with the Lopez group may lead to a deal with Manila North Tollways' foreign shareholders -- the French firm Egis and Australia's firm Leighton Asia -- which are also considering selling their combined 23 percent to Metro Pacific.
		Citra Metro Manila Tollways Corp., a joint venture of the Indonesian firm P.T. Citra Lamtoro Gung Persada and the partly government-owned Philippine National Construction Corp., operates the Skyway.
	money.inquirer.net /topstories/view_topstories.php?yyyy=2006&mon=06&dd=16&file=5 (400 words)

	Voice of the people - Chicago Tribune - Blogs. (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Leasing the tollways provides two immediate benefits to State of Illinois officials and absolutely zero benefits to Illinois residents.
		If the tollways are leased, the lease will contain language to guarantee future minimum toll increases just as the recently signed Chicago Skyway and Indiana Toll Road leases do.
		The real reason that the state can't make a go of the tollways while private industry can is that private industry doesn't thrive on graft and corruption like government does.
	newsblogs.chicagotribune.com /news_opinion_letters/2006/09/higher_tolls.html (561 words)

	The Freeway Battles - Motorcycle Philippines (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Sub-400cc motorcyclists are regularly apprehended by PNCC traffic enforcers for entering the tollways only to have the alleged violation (disregarding traffic signals and/or obstruction) dismissed by the LTO who recognizes the supremacy of the Writ over DO 123.
		The violation was contested by the rider and since then the MMDA have been passing the case to higher and higher levels as each level said the ticket should be cancelled.
		The Government wants us to believe that in banning motorcycles from the tollways, it is upholding public safety, but here is the real story: · Any rule or regulation claiming itself to be in the interest of road safety must meet the standard of a valid countermeasure.
	www.motorcyclephilippines.com /the-freeways-battle (2299 words)

	Bobsguide - Retail Decisions protects French tollways against British fraudsters
		Summer 2005 is the first holiday season that the world leader in card fraud prevention, payment processing and fuel card operations will be monitoring credit and charge card usage at French tollways to cut the number of fraudulent transactions.
		ReD chief executive Carl Clump said: ‘Tollways have been identified as a problem area because neither a signature nor a PIN is requested from drivers.
		ReD chief executive Carl Clump said: ‘We are delighted we were able to produce such fantastic results for the Fench tollways, as we do for our many clients in the retail, telecom and ecommerce sectors.
	www.bobsguide.com /guide/news/9942.html (421 words)

	Texas Tollways
		Texas Tollways is the Texas Department of Transportation's system of new toll roads throughout the state giving Texans more choices to get where they want to go.
		These high tech toll roads are part of the Texas Department of Transportation's Plan for reducing traffic congestion, enhancing safety, improving air quality, and expanding economic opportunity.
		TexasTollways.com is your link to maps, news, and information about toll roads and transportation planning across Texas.
	texastollways.com (0 words)

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