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Sunday, September 21, 2008

Indiana Toll Road private operator eliminates tolls to help in flood

Despite not being required to by the lease agreement, the private operator of the Indiana Toll Road -- an "evil foreign" consortium of Spanish and Australian companies -- suspended the collection of tolls to help with traffic being diverted off of flooded state-operated highways.

Read more at TollRoadsNews.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Come on this is a stretch. The PTC has had no toll days too. Oh know, not the evil government...

Anonymous said...

...and it only did so on Valentines Day 2006 when it was assured to be reimbursed by PennDOT. That's oh NO, not the "compassionate" government...ya know.

Anonymous said...

How helpful of the company to waive the toll fees. Unfortunately, this good deed is actually being picked up by the State of Indiana ... I mean, taxpayers, to foot the bill. The state is reimbursing the company.