EZ-Pass Coming Soon To Indiana Toll Road

The EZ-Pass system will be active at the Indiana Toll Road by May, according to the Northwest Indiana Times. Drivers with an I-Zoom system transponder will get a 40% discount over the cash fare. While the Illinois Toll Road authority's I-Pass will work on the Indiana Toll Road, drivers using those transponders won't get the I-Zoom discount, reports The Times.

The Indiana Toll Road E-ZPass will go by the name I-Zoom, just as Illinois has I-Pass.

Cars and motorcycles with I-Zoom transponders will get a 40 percent discount on the new, higher tolls, which should be in effect by year-end.

The I-Zoom transponders also will operate on the Illinois Tollway, Chicago Skyway, and other E-ZPass toll roads in 10 other states.

Illinois residents will be able to use their I-Pass transponders on the Indiana Toll Road. But to get the 40 percent discount they will have to get I-Zoom transponders.

I-Zoom transponders will go on sale in May. Transponders will be available for a one-time charge of $10 to $12, Pierce said.

I-Zoom tolling will be installed on the entire 157-mile toll road by the end of the year, Pierce said. It will cost $40 million to install the E-ZPass system.

The E-ZPass Interagency Group, of Atlantic City, N.J., voted this week to accept ITR Concession Co. as a full member.

The Northwest Indiana Times article didn't mention if there were plans to construct open road tolling lanes like that offered on the Illinois Toll Road.

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