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2013-05-23 Penn Pike's $200m EB-5 resident visa loans like line of credit, no fixed repayment date

2013-05-22 Hookset NH begins open road tolling

2013-05-22 Many tollers suspending road work over Memorial Day weekend

2013-05-22 Canadian Gov buying land in Detroit for new bridge approaches

2013-05-21 Penn Pike's $200m EB-5 immigrant visa financing a done deal - Pike to pay lender expenses + $200k for 2% loans

2013-05-21 DRJTBC appoints Sean M Hill director of operations PERSONNEL

2013-05-21 Work to continue on Norfolk VA tunnels while state contests judge's ruling tolls unconstitutional

2013-05-21 on US government abuses PITHY COMMENT

2013-05-20 NFC used in GeoToll's smartphone-as-tolltag, and in new Neology windshield tag

2013-05-20 North Carolina's lower house votes 113-0 to limit interstate tolls to added lanes - kills I-95 tolling?

2013-05-19 Thoughts on taking tolling into state DOTs - EDITORIAL

2013-05-17 Traffic at US-Canada toll crossings weak in April

2013-05-17 TCA has new CEO - Neil Peterson PERSONNEL

2013-05-17 Penn Pike's deal to borrow low from EB-5 visa-seeking investors - a second look

2013-05-16 PANYNJ moves ahead with Goethals replacement and other big Staten Island toll bridge projects

2013-05-15 All electronic toll collection improves safety on Turnpike in Miami area - 37% reduction in crashes tho' traffic up

2013-05-14 Neology Adds NFC to UHF RFID Transponders

2013-05-14 Tolls restored Penn Pike H'burg as mainlanes I-81 reopened

2013-05-14 Toll express lanes can get investment grade ratings but it will be tough - Moody's

2013-05-12 Michigan DOT to allow more hazmat over Ambassador Bridge but more onerous escort requirements

2013-05-10 The world's most beautiful bridge - Millau QUOTABLE

2013-05-10 Penn Pike waiving tolls through Harrisburg to provide I-81 detour after diesel tanker fire damages interchange

2013-05-10 Philly Inquirer reports Chinese investors in low-interest rate Penn Pike interchange lending get US preference as settlers

2013-05-09 North Carolina toll projects in trouble within DOT - two shovel-readies dumped

2013-05-08 How Fluor-Lane widened the 495 Capital Beltway from 8 to 12 lanes INTERVIEW

2013-05-07 Washington wisdom - transport-$s for neighborhood buzz, identity, novelty, and a kind of engagement

2013-05-07 Smart phones so smart they make calls on their own - 'butt calls'

2013-05-07 SASsy story in San Fran - Caltrans and BATA have problems on iconic new East Span

2013-05-03 Kapsch suggests FCC limit Progeny WAPS to low end of 902-928MHz spectrum, limits to interference

2013-05-03 Tollers head into fray of RF spectrum war at FCC to protect electronic tolling from interference

2013-05-02 Circuit Court judge in Portsmouth declares P3s in Virginia unconstitutional - nixes tolls at the Portsmouth-Norfolk tunnels

2013-05-02 MDX directors to reconsider new 70c tolls on 836 Dolphin - drop to 60c would cost about $10m/yr

2013-05-01 NY Governor Cuomo's people go for CEO Ron Rienas at Peace Bridge Authority - talk of disbandment, US takeover

2013-04-30 Fitch list US tollers' bond ratings in spreadsheet

2013-04-30 US transport policy not about mobility and that's bipartisan - Foxx, Shuster agree OPINION

2013-04-29 New US Sectrans Foxx big on streetcars, bike paths - good for tolls

2013-04-29 Kansas Turnpike Authority's CEO Mike Johnston quits as DOT moves in

2013-04-26 HNTB exec makes sharp case for toll managed lanes

2013-04-25 Good news for MWAA - below estimate price for toll financed train line in Dulles corridor

2013-04-25 E-ZPass IAG-TDM specs now open source, available for download, "aids national IOP" - Kapsch, IAG

2013-04-23 DRPA's Walt Whitman redeck in last phase

2013-04-23 Penn Pike to provide chargers for electric cars

2013-04-23 Illinois Tollway advises drivers to "travel with caution" during rain + Tollway response ADDITION

2013-04-23 Greenville SC Southern Connector closed for three days for film shoot

2013-04-20 My mother and the German blitz - "We walked, we never ran. We're British you know, we don't run" A Boston lesson? REMINISCENCE

2013-04-19 Rhode Island toll authority stands firm against critics, votes Sakonnet River Bridge tolls, maintenance assured

2013-04-19 Fitch reduces Dulles Greenway's bond rating to BB+ from BBB-, outlook 'stable' short-term

2013-04-18 Possible congestion tolls on Hampton Roads VA bridge-tunnels as interim measure pending new crossing in 2020s

2013-04-18 TransCore prepared to license use of patented encryption protocols in competitors readers to support interoperability (IOP)

2013-04-18 Bill to abolish Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission introduced by Republicans into state legislature

2013-04-17 MdTA Harold Bartlett retiring PERSONNEL

2013-04-17 MWAA bigs buy pricey travel - Washington Post reveals

2013-04-15 Orange Co Calif TCA Toll Roads contract with TransCore for new all-electronic toll system for $36.4m (w 2nd ADDS)

2013-04-14 Maryland brings law into line with video toll practice - notice of toll due first, citation when unpaid

2013-04-12 New 'NITC' Detroit-Windsor toll bridge gets US presidential permit

2013-04-12 Orange County Calif tollroads slammed as financially mismanaged with unsustainable debt by Governor's former finance director

2013-04-11 State officials: No corruption anticipated on Tappan Zee

2013-04-11 NC speeds to 75mph

2013-04-11 Moody's follows other raters in downgrading Penn Pike bonds

2013-04-11 IBTTA maintains media-in-sessions rule at finance symposium, so we stay away

2013-04-10 LA Express Lanes ramping up, speeds good in the Lanes but some drop in GP lane speeds alongside, $1m/month

2013-04-10 Overstayers a large proportion of 'illegals' - like I was REMINISCENCE

2013-04-10 More law suits against new Detroit-Canada NITC bridge

2013-04-08 Margaret Thatcher 1925-2013 - a great lady's words

2013-04-08 IBTTA calls for feds to loosen restrictions on states & locals using tolls

2013-04-08 Kansas Governor's move for DOT takeover of Turnpike defeated but in bizarre move Sectrans to be COO

2013-04-07 VA495XLs do promotional toll-free weekend

2013-04-07 Cross border toll traffic still flat - cars up, trucks down

2013-04-07 A Penn Pike 'WORKER' is angry with our "road signs bonanza" piece + our response on MPT

2013-04-05 President Obama gets it right: "We waste money in all kinds of things that don't work"

2013-04-05 Another Philly corruption scandal unfolding - DRPA federal grand jury investigation

2013-04-04 And we thought we might get chopped from her email list - The Nation's expose of anti-union activism

2013-04-03 Tyler NE Texas has another stretch of Toll 49 open - now 26 miles of 2 lane tollroad

2013-04-03 Orlando toller NOT "fretting" over train wrecks on 528 - BAD PRESS

2013-04-02 TX130/1-4 sees strong growth in traffic, revenues - a 2002 T&R forecast that worked

2013-03-31 Studying the Red route while having declared it verboten, finis, terminar - NC540 SE ext

2013-03-29 Texas 130 tollroad wants more love from truckers

2013-03-28 PANYNJ prosecuting toll collector for stealing "300 to 400" a day

2013-03-28 Toll collectors - nostalgia for lost human touch

2013-03-28 Greens withdraw opposition to new Tappan Zee Bridge

2013-03-27 Golden Gate bridge toll collectors get fond farewells - nostalgiafest for last 'toll takers'

2013-03-25 Turning 4G mobile phones into multiprotocol transponders - the promise of startup GeoToll with OmniAir's Tim McGuckin CEO

2013-03-25 Road work signs bonanza on Penn Pike

2013-03-24 Another small stage of MD200/ICC under way

2013-03-22 Penn Pike Commissioner William Lincoln resigns citing stress of racketeering charges against colleagues

2013-03-21 PA Gov Corbett, AG Kaine hit for "partisan" prosecutions at Penn Pike by 'CasablancaPA'

2013-03-21 Miami move from isolated tolls to full tolling confirmed by MDX board 10/3, close vote on toll hike

2013-03-19 Paintball attacks against toll cameras disable new toll system in Gothenburg Sweden

2013-03-19 How to calculate a highway fatality rate - question from a reader

2013-03-19 Sequestration: It's as if sanity itself has been sequestered in Washington QUOTABLE

2013-03-19 New York Times' braindead-left propagandizing QUOTABLE

2013-03-19 Maryland's I-95 Express Lanes not promising - high cost, slow work, low traffic OPTIONS ADDED

2013-03-18 CEO at Penn Pike says reviewing contracts to find any corrupt procurements

2013-03-17 RMA chief moves to reconstitute Richmond VA toller

2013-03-15 Hookset NH open road tolls should open mid-June

2013-03-14 Matty Moroun is all-purpose villain - now he's responsible for giant coke piles, Islamist bombers

2013-03-14 Corporate crime - the Turnpike and a personal reminiscence

2013-03-13 Penn Pike - eight charged with corruption including ex-chair Rubin, ex-CEO Brimmeier, ex-COO Hatalowich

2013-03-13 New hybrid GPS, DSRC, 4G units look to be the way of the future

2013-03-12 N Tarrant Express extension goes to commercial close