- Dallas City Council Kills the Trinity Toll Road Project
- One Dallas City Council Member's "Fact-Finding Mission" Led to the Trinity Parkway's Demise
- Australia Pitches Trump on "Asset Recycling" Plan to Pay for Infrastructure
- VP Pence Becomes Public Face of Trump Infrastructure Plan Influenced by Indiana's P3 Experience
- NCDOT Steps Up I-77 Express Work Zone Safety Measures
- Looking for News about an ALDOT P3 Opportunity, Australia's Pitch to the Trump Administration, NCDOT, VDOT, CRRMA, the Trinity Project and I-95 Express Lanes?
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Dallas City Council Kills the Trinity Toll Road Project
WFAA reports, “The Dallas City Council voted overwhelmingly on Wednesday to kill the long debated Trinity Toll Road project as a part of a larger park plan for the river. The council voted 13-2 to reject ‘Alternative 3C’, as it was termed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which ends a more than decade long debate that divided the city on the future of the project.”
Dallas-Ft. Worth Metro Region (DFW) Texas Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT)One Dallas City Council Member's "Fact-Finding Mission" Led to the Trinity Parkway's Demise
The Texas Tribune, in an in-depth account of the life and death of the Trinity Parkway toll project, explains how a lone, first-term city council member’s “fact-finding mission” into the highway proposal “became a one-woman crusade against the city’s political establishment, which then evolved into a citywide battle that has lasted more than 11 years.”
Dallas-Ft. Worth Metro Region (DFW) TexasAustralia Pitches Trump on "Asset Recycling" Plan to Pay for Infrastructure
Bloomberg Businessweek reports that as President Trump looks for ways to pay for his promised $1 trillion infrastructure plan, “a group of Australian politicians and executives has been lobbying for the administration to adopt a controversial policy of selling or leasing airports, toll roads, and other public facilities to raise money for infrastructure projects. The method, known as asset recycling, was used in Australia as a way to finance new construction without incurring new debt.”
Australia Trump Administration Infrastructure PlanVP Pence Becomes Public Face of Trump Infrastructure Plan Influenced by Indiana's P3 Experience
International Business Times reports that President Trump’s infrastructure revitalization plan “may be unprecedented in its size and ambition, but it promotes a controversial model championed by Vice President Mike Pence in his home state of Indiana,” and adds, “Pence has been a public face of the White House initiative, and executives from financial firms that helped privatize Indiana’s roads are now the Trump administration officials sculpting the details of the national plan.”
Indiana P3 & Privatization Trump Administration Infrastructure PlanNCDOT Steps Up I-77 Express Work Zone Safety Measures
WSOC interviews a woman seriously injured when a construction worker’s vehicle collided with her SUV in the I-77 Express work zone and reports that “North Carolina Department of Transportation officials . . . said they have added flaggers in construction zones to cut down on all the work vehicles entering the travel lanes. NCDOT officials said their changes also include the extension of construction entrances and new, flashing signs that alert drivers about merging construction trucks.”
I-77 Express Lanes (NC) North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT)Looking for News about an ALDOT P3 Opportunity, Australia's Pitch to the Trump Administration, NCDOT, VDOT, CRRMA, the Trinity Project and I-95 Express Lanes?
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