Illinois Tollway Ticket -What to do?

[cardsfansince82]

How is it that the fines are like 5000%?

Most likely because we forgot to pay/ appeal it at earlier stage. but still, it does seem like mafia rates. As far as contacting them- I tried like hell on the 800# to reach a person, but never got thru. My polite letter was responded to by a person though.

$5 that we paid is 500% of the toll.

So 25000% then. My mistake. That's absolutely ridiculous. I definitely would not pay. There must be some state authority you can get through to. At there very least, they ought to be about to explain how they came up with a $250 fine for failure to pay a $1 toll.

When I lived in Oklahoma the toll highway there was like $3 and not paying it was a $200 fine right off the bat. I can't imagine what it went up to later if you missed deadlines like Freed. Not saying it's right, but that's like a lot of other traffic fines in that they make them absurdly high just to strongly discourage people from trying to ignore/circumvent them.

[StatmanCrothers]

this kind of thing is why i change my identity every so often.

if someone named "SlatmanCrothers" logs on, you'll know what happened.

[Hudler]

How is it that the fines are like 5000%?

Most likely because we forgot to pay/ appeal it at earlier stage. but still, it does seem like mafia rates. As far as contacting them- I tried like hell on the 800# to reach a person, but never got thru. My polite letter was responded to by a person though.

$5 that we paid is 500% of the toll.

St. Louis city has a racket like this going with parking tickets. We know you must pay them immediately - and even though we do they still try to hit you with a late fee if paid by regular mail.. my recommendation is to either pay St.L city tickets online, or in-person, or by certified mail return w/ return receipts. F [expletive]!

It was in a state contolled by Chicago politicians....so mafia sounds about right. I'd pay it before they start breaking bones.

[sparks]

Don't know if you have taken care of your toll issues or not. It looks like you may be in for a little relief if you haven't

03/26/2009 Illinois Tollway Launches Toll Violation Spring Cleaning Program
Toll Violators Offered One Time Opportunity to Wipe Away Outstanding Violation Notices While Fine Escalation and Suspension of Driving Privileges Are Put on Hold

http://www.illinoistollway.com/portal/p ... ema=PORTAL

[jim]

Illinois is the ceasepool of the nation. I hate this [expletive] place. You lose your $5 ticket? You owe thousands of dollars. Illinois losses ALL of their tickets in the computer, creating a backlog of years of fines where the escalation process continues even though the notices aren't going out - and well they get thousands.

We got a notice in the mail sometime ago for thousands of dollars of unpaid fines. What happened was that we would occasionally take the IPASS transponder into another car to avoid the scam of giving them a down payment on a second transponder, and it turns out that the failure rate on these things is definitely above 0. We didn't know you had to register the car with a second transponder, so when we went through and Blago's [expletive] machine didn't work right, it flagged us. Never mind we never got a notice because the worthless piece of [expletive] state workers in Springfield don't know how their computers work, we still got the bill.

We ended up working it out, registered our other vehicle with the transponder and they transferred the money over. But there are literally thousands of people who got caught up in the corrupt and incompetent process of the State of Illinois.

In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if I get a ticket soon. I went through a unmanned booth a couple of weeks ago, through in the appropriate amount of change and it didn't give me the green light (I didn't have the transponder with me) I throw in another dime or something, still nothing, Since I'm backing traffic up at this point I just scramble around outside picking up loose coins and throwing them in until the light turned green. I went up to the camera and flipped it off.

[expletive] you Illinois.

[Hungary Jack]

Illinois is the ceasepool of the nation. I hate this [expletive] place. You lose your $5 ticket? You owe thousands of dollars.

I feel that way sometimes too. And the Illinois Tollway people are Nazis (that's being unkind to Nazis).

At some point government ceases to be for the people and starts acting like a money-hungry bureaucracy with monopolistic pricing power. Chicago and Cook County passed that point a while ago. I wonder if the Obama Administration will be next.

[Freed Roger]

Don't know if you have taken care of your toll issues or not. It looks like you may be in for a little relief if you haven't

03/26/2009 Illinois Tollway Launches Toll Violation Spring Cleaning Program
Toll Violators Offered One Time Opportunity to Wipe Away Outstanding Violation Notices While Fine Escalation and Suspension of Driving Privileges Are Put on Hold

http://www.illinoistollway.com/portal/p ... ema=PORTAL

I really appreciate the info Sparks. GRB to the rescue. They've already turned my fine over to a collection agency - whose bill I promptly threw away. So, I'm not sure if I'm eligible for this very gracious amnesty program. 600,000 unpaid fines, thats a load. I guess its good to know I have company.

[dangerous]

kk

[Transmogrified Tiger]

Since I'm backing traffic up at this point I just scramble around outside picking up loose coins and throwing them in until the light turned green.

That is a hilarious mental image.

[Freed Roger]

I have two new run ILL tollbooths to contend with. I have old ones unpaid, that have sort of dropped (not sure, no longer have the old plates, or old land phone line to harass me). My wife also has a few run tollbooths from last year. Should I attempt to pay them online in the 7 day period - and thus give them my personal info, and potentially stir up the costlier old [expletive]?

God I hate [expletive] tollways.