The Tri-State was widened at both the south and north ends and is currently getting extra lanes in the mid-section. The Illinois Tollway is turning over the new pedestrian bridge crossing to local. Tollway customers can 'follow' each of the five tollways the Tri-State Tollway (I-94/I-294/I-80), Jane Addams Memorial Tollway (I-90), Reagan Memorial Tollway (I-88), the Veterans Memorial Tollway (I-355), and the Illinois Route 390 Tollway to receive real-time roadway incident and pavement condition information to help plan their trips. 'We're continuing to move east, we'll be into O'Hare somewhere in the 2023 time frame, that's our target and building a bypass around O'Hare Airport by the end of '25.' Officials from the Illinois Tollway, Western Springs and Hinsdale announced that walkers, runners and bikers will have access to the new Central Tri-State Tollway (I-294) Pedestrian Bridge adjacent to 47th Street on Wednesday, December 14. 'We opened the first stretch in 2016, it's the tollway's first all-electronic roadway,' said Illinois Tollway Chief Planning Officer Rocco Zucchero. The tollway took over the project around 2013. 390, began as a freeway: the Elgin-O'Hare-Expressway, which didn't go to Elgin, or O'Hare. 'In 2005 we took a huge leap and decided that we were gonna make all of our main line systems, all of our primary routes be able to drive through and not even know you're driving beneath a toll plaza,' Kovacs said. The presentation from the 04/24/17 public meeting held at the Hinsdale Oasis is found above. Within a handful of years several plazas were adding I-Pass express lanes, which led the way for open-road tolling. Central Tri-State Tollway (I-294) The Illinois Tollway Authority as put together a website with preliminary Information regarding their design objectives for the Tri-State Tollway.

We had the privilege of driving on the new tollway before it opened to the public in December 1989! A few years later, I-355 became the first tollway to use I-Pass. It was a very different process, building through a suburbanized area.

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