Showing posts with label toll roads. Show all posts
Showing posts with label toll roads. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Travel Tip For Chicagoland

On the Internet, Illinois toll roads around Chicago are always depicted like this:

In fact, they look like this:

So, when you see a sign like this...


... what it means is cash is accepted only in the far right lane -- which you can't get to because through your windshield this is what you see:
So, you should have this with you:

.. and pay the toll on-line in seven days.

If you don't, the Illinois Tollway Authority will track you down and assess you interest "higher than [that] allowed by the state's usury laws." Just as they did this poor woman...

... and thousands of out-of-state residents who have never even been to Illinois.