Illinois
Illinois governor hails opening of major tollway extension, says must focus on moving people
Posted Tue, 2007-11-13 18:53
Governor Rod Blagojevich amid lots of hoopla cut the ribbon for the $730m 20km (12.5 mile) extension of the I-355 Tollway in the southwestern part of the greater Chicago area today. Now officially named the Veterans Memorial
Tollway the I-355 used to be called the North-South Tollway. There were bicycle rides, walks, a musical tribute to veterans, and of course speeches.
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Illinois goes a nearly a year without issuing violations notices in backoffice transition
Posted Fri, 2007-08-10 14:03
Illinois Tollway has gone for nearly a year now without their violations system operating fully in a difficult back office transition from TransCore to Electronic Transactions Consultants (ETC). A Tollway official says their priorities have been been to get their front end equipment especially open road toll systems working accurately, then to move over to new toll management systems, customer service, with violations processing coming on-line last.
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