I miss the option of paying tolls in real time.

[Torvy]

That is simply not true. There are whole sections of interstate highways around Chicago where there are tolls. No free lanes.

 

[eolesen]

Having an interstate designation doesn't necessarily infer who paid for it.

94/294/94 from the Wisconsin line to the Indiana line was and still is funded by tollway bonds. 90 from Wisconsin to OHare was also ISTHA bond funded. Likewise for 355.

94 between the ends of 294 are state & federal funded.

My dad was one of the engineers over that project and was chief engineer for I-88. Staking out the alignments for 355 was one of my college jobs.

 

[oldnslo]

My question relates to an out of state toll bill. Can they enforce collection on non residents? I received a small toll bill from Texas last summer, misplaced it and forgot about it. I haven’t received another bill.

In Illinois I believe they will try but not sure how much time and effort they will put into collecting $10 in tolls.

 

[MossRoad]

In Oklahoma they have a crazy system where if you enter the toll road without a transponder you drive through a separate lane and get a ticket from an attendant and pay for the entire distance for the toll road. If you get off early you have to go through a separate lane and get a refund from the attendant for what portion of the highway you did not drive on or it's not worth it you just go through the fast lane and forfeit the refund.

Yeah, we found that out when one of our kids moved to OK. Paid a toll. Drove a bit. Got off to get something to eat, got a refund. Ate. Got back on the highway and paid again. Eventually we found 51 between Tulsa and Stillwater and started taking that to avoid some total. But it was a terrible road for 3 years. They repaired a good portion of it the last year we were traveling.

 

[MossRoad]

I think as a rule interstate highways don’t have tolls. Most toll roads look like interstate highways and often connect one to another. I think the difference is toll roads are built by someone other than the feds.

760 miles of I90 is tolled.
175 miles of I80 is tolled.

In total, there's something like 3000 miles of interstate highways that are tolled.