Discount for Ind. drivers on Ill. Tollway in jeopardy

POST-TRIBUNE :

"Indiana officials say the rollout of new toll-tabulating transponders in June will make highway travel cheaper and easier for Indiana motorists, but their peers across the border in Illinois say private toll road operator ITR Concession Co. are making things harder.

Illinois Tollway officials say they will reconsider their longstanding practice of granting all users of Indiana's I-Zoom transponders an automatic 50 percent reduction in the tolls paid by drivers who pay cash, since ITR Concessions ann-ounced plans to give a 40 percent reduction solely to Indiana residents.

Illinois gives the 50 percent discount to the 90,000 Indiana residents who have I-Pass transponders, at an annual cost of $9 million."