Illinois sets road maintenance budget

Illinois tollway has outlined its budget plans for 2017. The agency expects toll revenues to hit US$1.38 billion for 2017. The plans in the tentative budget call for 75% to be directed to develop infrastructure. Some $336 million will be used for operations and maintenance while $639 million will be used for capital investments. The combined figures planned in the tentative budget for operations and maintenance and capital investments represent an increase of $14 million over the combined sum for 2016. A
November 2, 2016 Read time: 1 min
Illinois tollway has outlined its budget plans for 2017. The agency expects toll revenues to hit US$1.38 billion for 2017. The plans in the tentative budget call for 75% to be directed to develop infrastructure. Some $336 million will be used for operations and maintenance while $639 million will be used for capital investments. The combined figures planned in the tentative budget for operations and maintenance and capital investments represent an increase of $14 million over the combined sum for 2016.

Another $2.4 million is planned to advance diverse parties to work on Tollway contracts. And $14.7 million is planned to support the implementation of an enterprise resource planning system. In addition, $65.3 million is planned to be spent on tracking toll avoiders, supporting I-PASS account management and maintaining the technology used for the tolling network.

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