Tolls on the Pike, an illegal tax? A famous lawyer has an idea.

Here's something all of you who have paid tolls (in the last 5 years) at 128 or in the City should be aware of. This action seems to be timely and if won, would force the transportation agencies to get tolls booths up on the North and South of the city.

Go to http://www.tollequitytrust.com/ and see what they have to say about this class action law suit.

A trial lawyer made famous by Hollywood is looking to win some change for Bay State toll-payers in a newly filed class-action suit that takes on the embattled Massachusetts Turnpike Authority.

Jan R. Schlichtmann - whose local battle against a chemical company was the basis of the book and film “A Civil Action” - is looking for Pike drivers to join his legal quest for a massive refund.

Schlictmann filed a complaint in Middlesex Superior Court Friday in the name of three Pike-weary drivers who maintain the tolls are an “illegal tax.” because the proceeds from the roadway’s tolls are diverted to other projects. The lawsuit contends 58 percent of Pike tolls are used to finance Big Dig roads.

“It is a Big Dig tax,” Schlichtmann said. “This amounts to an unconstitutional expropriation of money. The argument isn’t that it’s not being used for a good purpose. It’s that you can’t lawfully do that.”