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Nov 6
Tollers to repay $1.4m, waive $41m+ in S Cal to settle toll violation debt cases : Southern California tollers have agreed to repay about $1.4m and to waive $41m or an estimated 29% of accumulated toll violation penalties owing for violations since early 2003....
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Nov 5
Minnesota moving steadily toward more tolls/pricing : Minnesota is moving cautiously toward more road pricing following good results from price-managed lanes on I-394 and I-35W, radials to the west and south of Minneapolis....
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Nov 4
Free flowing traffic good for babies' health - study based on ET startup dates : A study using data from several northeastern tollers before and after E-ZPass electronic toll collection (ETC) finds the reduced tailpipe emissions from free flowing traffic produces a marked improvem...
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Nov 4
TCA third laning on 241TR opened, 4th laning of 73 SJ Hills TR ongoing : Transportation Corridors Agencies who run The Toll Roads in Orange County California celebrated the opening of a third lane each direction at the 241 or Foothill/Eastern Toll Road this week....
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Nov 3
North Carolina defers tag & reader choice to mid-Jan but finalizing roadside, back office, ops Nov 15 : North Carolina Turnpike Authority now envisage making their choice of tag/reader system mid-January, three months later than anticipated....
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Nov 1
PA/I-80 toll valuation consultant runs jails, does deceptive name change : An obscure company whose main business turns out to be running jails in the south is key financial advisor to the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission in their application to the Feds for permission to to...
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Oct 31
Turnpike on alert for legal gridlock - Brimmeier memo : Eric Heyl of Pittsburgh's Tribune Review obtained the following memo under what he calls the federal Freedom of Imagination Act:To: All Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission employees From: Joseph Brimmeie...
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Oct 31
Shanghai opens spectacular toll bridge and tunnel to Yangste River mouth islands : In Shanghai there are celebrations for the opening of a spectacular toll bridge and tunnel expressway linking Chongming Island in the mouth of the Changjiang (Yangste) River....
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Oct 30
New Jersey governor says will freeze tolls after saying he'd revive 'monetization' on smaller scale : A close political race for state governor in New Jersey, and accusations that incumbent Gov Jon Corzine planned to revive his plan for monetization has extracted a commitment to freeze tolls during hi...
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Oct 29
Macquarie to split gems from dud pikes : Macquarie are proposing to split their portfolio of pikes into the gems (called Mature MIG) and the duds called (called Active MIG)....
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Oct 28
New details emerge on FBI raid at Pennsylvania Turnpike - second source confirms : Bob Dietz, 55 of Lancaster PA, construction supervisor for a Turnpike widening project near Valley Forge says we can quote him as saying the FBI were at the Turnpike's head offices in Harrisburg Thurs...
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Oct 27
FBI raid Pennsylvania Turnpike HQ, take hard drives and other evidence : A number of Pennsylvania Turnpike officers have lost computer hard drives to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.Advertisement:read more...
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Oct 27
ATI issues formal Request for video toll interoperability proposals : ATI has issued a formal Request for Information (RFI) seeking a comprehensive solution for using license plate images (video) as the basis for inter-authority toll charges across North America.Adverti...
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Oct 27
Loops or lasers for classifying vehicles - Texas Turnpike going for laser profilers now : The Turnpike division of TxDOT is doing something unusual in the US at least - classifying vehicles entirely with overhead equipment using volumetric laser profilers. No loops.read more...
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Oct 27
TransCore has $38.7m construction, $8.46m/yr ops for 5 HOV-HOTs Houston TX : TransCore has announced $81m worth of contracts with Houston METRO for conversion of five HOV corridors to HOT Lanes....
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Oct 27
RAND VMT report lead author responds to criticism, says did not reject RFID : Paul Sorensen, lead author of the NCHRP-RAND-AASHTO report on nearterm technologies for vehicle miles traveled (VMT) charges has responded to criticism, claiming the group does not dismiss the utility...
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Oct 27
407ETR, Macquarie traffic coming back, revenue edges up : Leading concessionaire Macquarie report that their weighted average of traffic worldwide was up 1.6% in the last quarter, July-September, an improvement on the low point early this year....
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Oct 27
RAND/TRB plan for AASHTO's VMT charges ignores toll technologies and expertise : AASHTO, the state DOTs lobby in Washington DC has a report from the Academies of Sciences' Transportation Research Board (TRB) that determinedly avoids toll technologies and expertise in the search fo...
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Oct 27
Mass Turnpike Authority dies, but Mass Turnpike lives on : The Turnpike Authority in Massachusetts will formally pass away Oct 30, but the Turnpike itself will live on as a division of a new Massachusetts Department of Transportation that begins Nov 1.  The T...
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Oct 27
Ambassador Bridge in just "fair condition" - secret report says : The Ambassador Bridge company fought so fiercely the release of an annual engineer's inspection report it was bound to get huge media attention when it was released today by veteran Michigan congressm...
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Oct 27
Support for 5.9GHz as next electronic toll technology growing, but it's a way off : Support seems to be growing within the toll industry for 5.9GHz OmniAir as the next new technology for toll collection....
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Oct 27
Undemanding FHWA "rules" for fed-OKd toll systems published in Federal Register : FHWA has published undemanding if sometimes confused "rules" for tolls on value priced or express lanes, and newly tolled interstate construction under federal control.  The rules do nothing to "accel...
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