The two companies formed the Indiana Toll Road Concession Company to operate the road. Similar to the Chicago Skyway transaction in 2004, on June 29, 2006, Indiana received $3.8 billion in an auction from a consortium made up of the Spanish construction firm Cintra and the Macquarie Atlas Roads (MQA) of Australia in exchange for the right to maintain, operate and collect tolls for the following 75 years. Several interchanges on the Toll Road were constructed between 19 as part of a bond sale in October 1980. I-294 was cut back to the Tri-State Tollway at that time. The current arrangement was applied around 1965, to avoid confusion, which resulted in a stretch of I-94 actually being farther south than I-90, and I-90 running the entire length of the Indiana Toll Road. Originally the I-94 designation was applied to the highway west of where the current interchange with I-94 was eventually built, with I-90 following I-80 to the west along the Borman Expressway as I-94 does now, the completed portions of the Borman being designated as I-80, I-90, and I-294. In addition to the east–west toll road, a north–south toll road was planned, roughly along the path of today's I-65, but the plan was dropped after the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 was passed. The final course of the Toll Road was the northern of four planned alignments. The formal dedication ceremony was held on September 17, 1956. It opened in stages, east to west, between August and November 1956. The Indiana Toll Road was publicly financed and constructed during the 1950s. Longtime version of the Indiana Toll Road's logo, still in use on many guide signs on the ITR and Chicago Skyway The new ITRCC logo roll out occurred in the spring of 2007. In December 2006, ITR Concession Company announced that a South Bend student, Andrea Herbster, will receive $5,000 toward her educational expenses for being selected as the grand prizewinner of the Indiana Toll Road logo design contest. Originally they were "Chicago and West" and "Ohio and East".
Ĭontrol cities on guide signs are Chicago and Ohio. At one point in northern Indiana, in Greenfield Township in LaGrange County at approximately mile 129.4, the toll road comes within about 200 yards (180 m), or 0.1 miles (0.16 km), from the Michigan border. Looking north at exit 121, (State Road 9), the "Welcome to Michigan" sign is visible in the distance. Although it never enters Michigan, the toll road lies within 10 miles (16 km) of the Michigan state line between La Porte, Indiana and the Ohio state line. The farthest it gets from the Michigan state line or Lake Michigan is about 10 miles (16 km). The original number sequence was amended slightly in 1964 with the opening of the then-Burns Harbor, now Lake Station exit. The Toll Road opened in 1956 with sequential exit numbering, which was converted to the current mileage-based scheme in 1981. Indiana Toll Road, East Chicago, IN, at Kennedy AvenueĮxit points are based on the milepost system, with exits starting at 0 at the Illinois state line, and increasing to exit 153 at the Eastpoint toll barrier near the Ohio state line (technically, not an exit, as the only access from there is to the Ohio Turnpike, but toll tickets issued at the barrier are marked "Entry 153"). It is owned by the Indiana Finance Authority and operated by the Indiana Toll Road Concession Company, a joint-venture between Spanish Cintra Concesiones de Infraestructuras de Transporte and Australian Macquarie Atlas Roads. It has been advertised as the "Main Street of the Midwest". The Indiana Toll Road, officially the Indiana East–West Toll Road, is a toll road that runs for 157 miles (253 km) east–west across northern Indiana from the Illinois state line to the Ohio state line. I-90 / Chicago Skyway at Illinois state line
Maintained by Indiana Toll Road Concession Company
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