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2009-07-03 China welcomes investor tollroads while Texas shuts the door

2009-07-02 Obama officials say want "rigor" in project evaluation (COMMENTARY)

2009-07-01 West Virginia Turnpike board votes unanimously for toll hikes - for 37% extra $s

2009-07-01 Tampa toll say settled major claims on URS for 2004 collapse of El for $74.75m

2009-06-30 Bush Turnpike in Dallas, E470 Denver go all-electronic this week (ADDITIONS)

2009-06-29 Massachusetts Turnpike rescinds toll hike after Governor says he'll sign $100m/year bailout

2009-06-28 Paulo Pezzotta's "mobility habitation production environmental management platform" attracts cartoonist

2009-06-28 Toll collector charged in "cooking" murder dismissed despite Teamsters plea

2009-06-28 WV pol says Charleston meeting on toll increase is an insult

2009-06-27 Oberstar bill mandates higher gas tax, more earmarks, less private investment (GUEST COLUMN)

2009-06-27 Illinois Tollway still lacks top staff - Blagojevich fallout (PERSONNEL)

2009-06-26 Oklahoma Turnpike loses ten lives in pileup on Will Rogers Turnpike (UPDATED)

2009-06-25 DeFazio chair highways transit panel says tax on oil futures can fund $140 billion transport funding gap

2009-06-25 Ambassador Bridge responds to Michigan DOT law suit alleging breach of contract

2009-06-25 Michigan DOT sues Ambassador Bridge company charging breach of contract

2009-06-25 Mass Turnpike tells state: show us $100m/year or tolls go up by 60%

2009-06-24 Florida DOT restarting concession procurement for Jacksonville Outer Belt

2009-06-24 TxDOT, Cintra close on N Tarrant Express concession in Dallas

2009-06-24 Every toll agency needs a Mary Z Connaughton - Swaptions 101

2009-06-23 Reauthorization: a missed opportunity for transportation funding reform (GUEST AUTHOR)

2009-06-23 HOV-to-HOT and new HOT lanes still eligible under STAA - USDOT official (CORRECTION)

2009-06-23 Feds propose mandating "interoperability of electronic toll collection devices for all toll facilities..."

2009-06-21 Washington state hot spot for toll projects - 99 Tunnel under downtown Seattle

2009-06-18 Massachusetts Turnpike to be merged into new state DOT in reorganization - bill agreed

2009-06-18 US House Reps transport committee bill puts black cloud over tolling

2009-06-18 NETRMA has "underrun" - new term coined

2009-06-17 TxDOT has trouble with state Attorney General on N Tarrant toll concession

2009-06-17 Victims of fatal Maryland Bay Bridge crash to sue state toller

2009-06-17 Mexican deployment of ISO 18000-6C sticker tags for vehicle registration & tolling

2009-06-16 N Texas Tollway cut spending $108m to meet revenue drop of near 11%

2009-06-16 Karen Hedlund of Nossaman new chief counsel of Federal Highway Admin (PERSONNEL)

2009-06-16 US Gov freezes permitting for new span of Ambassador Bridge Detroit-Windsor

2009-06-13 New York Times - double standard for party switchers (MEDIA)

2009-06-13 Wyoming moves to toll I-80 - studies, public outreach

2009-06-12 Class action suit against Mass Pike fails to attach assets, but goes on

2009-06-12 US traffic still in decline, but decline slower

2009-06-11 Teamsters protest Mass Turnpike's "unjust" suspension of murder indictee toll collector

2009-06-11 South Miami Busway likely to be studied for toll express lanes

2009-06-10 Exit beers - brewer names new beers for NJ Turnpike Exits

2009-06-10 Massachusetts Turnpike's funding of Big Dig challenged in court - "political theater"

2009-06-09 Mass Pike tolltaker fired after being charged with gruesome murder to erase drugs debt

2009-06-09 Seattle area plan focuses on tolling alternatives including all expressways & arterials to toll

2009-06-08 Wall Street Journal earns Dummy Editor Award of the Year for headline today

2009-06-05 Washington state - comprehensive tolling presented as option (CORRECTION)

2009-06-04 P3s called "turnpike charters" back then (HISTORY)

2009-06-04 Trinity tollroad in Dallas delayed by dike peek

2009-06-04 Sirit getting into cattle tags

2009-06-03 West Virginia legislator threatens "civil disobedience" to protest toll hike

2009-06-03 US officials very interested in VMT/road use charges - ITSA people

2009-06-03 Washington DC metro area has America's widest bridge - a tale of two bridges, toll and tax

2009-06-02 Reuters distorts 2008 Penn Pike privatization move

2009-06-01 New York Governor's commission proposes bridges for P3 availability payment concessions

2009-06-01 Problems for Penn Pike in getting Feds OK to toll I-80 in legal counsel Memo

2009-06-01 GSP's Driscoll Bridge NJ fully open May 20 - at 15 lanes widest in US

2009-05-31 Penn Pike revives idea of cut in place of Allegheny Mtn tunnels - study RFP

2009-05-29 121 Tollway north of Dallas TX to become Sam Rayburn Tollway (UPDATE)

2009-05-29 Mark IV Toll gets new president Chris Murray - Martin Capper retiring (PERSONNEL)

2009-05-28 NCTA plans bond offer July 1 for Triangle Expressway

2009-05-28 Pennsylvania to re-apply to toll I-80 - Turnpike chairman Biehler

2009-05-27 Time running out for debt relief to defer Mass Pike toll hike, pols posture

2009-05-27 NTTA chooses local gov/academic administrator as exec-director (PERSONNEL)

2009-05-26 US road travel continues decline but slower

2009-05-26 Fitch rates NCTA Triangle Expressway bonds 'BBB-'

2009-05-26 Goodwin, Hautamaki retire, Mullan CEO Mass Pike, T Duvall to McKinsey, Lemon partner (PERSONNEL)

2009-05-26 Penn Pike completes widening/recon of far western 9.3 miles (16km) of mainline (REVISED)

2009-05-22 Interoperability stressed in North Carolina's RFP for Triangle Expressway toll system

2009-05-21 In New England/Ontario they talk of "holding a toll road" - charity panhandlers (LINGUISTICS)

2009-05-20 Mark IV say TransCore violating patent by reading its transponders with E6 reader

2009-05-20 Multi-$billion toll projects move in Seattle WA - 520 floating bridge (UPDATED)

2009-05-18 Jackson MS Airport Parkway toll concession delayed but official optimistic

2009-05-18 No bids for 'Gator Alley concession in Florida

2009-05-18 Open road tolling OK'd for I-95 Hampton Toll Plaza New Hampshire

2009-05-17 DJ Gribbin of Macquarie hits Bingaman-Grassley bills

2009-05-15 Orlando toller completes FL414 Apopka pike - opening ceremony

2009-05-14 Jacksonville Outer Beltway project, Alligator Alley revived with pro-P3 Florida tax law

2009-05-14 Illinois Tollway sells $500m of US-subsidized BABs at net 3.44%, 4.02%

2009-05-14 Penn Pike says secretary Biehler recently named chairman (PERSONNEL)

2009-05-13 Firemen, cops 21st century American saints - beyond scrutiny given to commoners (EDITORIAL)

2009-05-12 New York tunnel and bridge tolls up 10%, transit gets payroll tax, car fee subsidies

2009-05-11 Miami Dade Expressway talk $124m contracts with ETC for all-electronic tolling (AET)

2009-05-10 Ohio Turnpike toll booth hit by truck

2009-05-10 Ex-SEC Chairman Levitt says muni bonds dangerously opaque - calls for more oversight

2009-05-09 Massachusetts Turnpike Authority being dismantled - with difficulty

2009-05-08 Mod Con pleads guilty to 40 US charges on Big Dig

2009-05-08 Oberstar backtracks on vehicle-miles charge, aide says press "mistook" him

2009-05-07 Texas 45 Southeast TR opens, completing tolled bypass of I-35 Austin

2009-05-06 Mass Pike CEO LeBovidge resigns in frustration - politics now rules

2009-05-06 Bingaman's office denies S884, S885 drafted with lobbyists, and backdating

2009-05-05 Nevada state of the absurd - TR concessions law

2009-05-05 Global P3 advisers say Bingaman-Grassley bills would end US market for tollroad concessions

2009-05-04 Anti-Obama billboard falsely described as "on the Indiana Toll Road"

2009-05-03 "I have a special request of you tonight, Sir" - local bum

2009-05-03 Mark IV's US auto works file for bankruptcy, E-ZPass supplier OK

2009-05-01 Americans rate cars necessities above all else, but have been cutting car use - Pew research

2009-05-01 Florida DOT rebidding financial consulting services for P3s

2009-05-01 Road use charge/VMT discussion in US Congress - Oberstar, Blumenauer

2009-04-29 Outer Banks toll bridge development agreement signed with likely toll concessionaire ACS

2009-04-29 Mystery toll concessions bills from Iowa, NM senators - text obtained

2009-04-28 Facing default on debt, no money for upkeep West Virginia moving to hike tolls 30%

2009-04-28 Deadlock in Boston over turnpike and transit $s