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Emile

(34,832 posts)
Sun May 18, 2025, 06:50 AM May 18

CROSSROADS OF AMERICA' State of Indiana considering adding tolls to interstates

INDIANA (WPTA) - The State of Indiana is considering adding tolls to interstates after a bill passed this year paved the way for the possibility.

WTHR reports that the state is weighing whether or not to add tolls to Indiana interstates as a potential solution for road funding.
Lawmakers say the state’s primary source of road funding revenue, which comes from the gas tax, has not provided sufficient money to maintain, upgrade, and expand its roads and highways.

“If we’re going to have and maintain an infrastructure that will meet our needs, this is the only thing that really works,” State Sen. Michael Crider (R-District 28), who sponsored House Bill 1461, told WTHR. “It seems like the fairest way to do it is to come up with a reasonable tolling-type mechanism to fund the infrastructure for the future.”

A measure signed into law this month, House Enrolled Act 1461, makes it easier to create toll roads in Indiana by allowing INDOT to apply for a waiver from the Federal Highway Administration (FHA) to toll any highway in the state, WTHR reports.

Read more at: https://www.21alivenews.com/2025/05/15/crossroads-america-state-indiana-considering-adding-tolls-interstates/

Indiana Republicans are wanting to privatize Interstate 70 and Interstate 65.

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CROSSROADS OF AMERICA' State of Indiana considering adding tolls to interstates (Original Post) Emile May 18 OP
Good luck with that, Indiana. But you didn't build the intestate. It doesn't belong to you. brush May 18 #1
Didn't they sell the Indiana toll road I-90? viva la May 18 #2
I remember that. I was driving an 18 wheeler Emile May 18 #4
Some interstates are also urban highways. viva la May 19 #6
As they say... 2naSalit May 18 #3
I live in a state that has toll roads. mwmisses4289 May 18 #5

brush

(59,990 posts)
1. Good luck with that, Indiana. But you didn't build the intestate. It doesn't belong to you.
Sun May 18, 2025, 07:18 AM
May 18

viva la

(4,111 posts)
2. Didn't they sell the Indiana toll road I-90?
Sun May 18, 2025, 08:30 AM
May 18

That's probably the long-term plan for the other interstates too.

viva la

(4,111 posts)
6. Some interstates are also urban highways.
Mon May 19, 2025, 09:07 AM
May 19

If we're commuting on these highways everyday, how much will that cost?
Also, I wonder if making these tollroads is just the first step to selling another highway to a private company.

2naSalit

(96,922 posts)
3. As they say...
Sun May 18, 2025, 08:39 AM
May 18

"Hoosier hospitality is no accident!"

My ex's response every time he saw that sign along the road...

"Hell no, they MAKE 'em that way!"

mwmisses4289

(1,115 posts)
5. I live in a state that has toll roads.
Sun May 18, 2025, 09:05 AM
May 18

Very few people use them unless they have to. They appear to be for the very wealthy (the charges to go a few miles are ridiculous) and to keep making the private business group that built them money (despite promises to the contrary). They are trying to build one that goes from a major city to the coastal port, but are running into some resistance from the smaller towns along its proposed route.

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