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- Massachusetts Starts Issuing Passive RFID Stickers To E-ZPass Customers
- Oklahoma Opens Creek Turnpike To More Trucks With Wide Loads
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Bistate Ohio River Bridge Tolling Body Holds First Meeting Tomorrow
The first meeting of the Ohio River Crossing Tolling Body, the entity recently created by Kentucky and Indiana for the I-69 ORX Project, is scheduled for tomorrow, March 3, starting at 1:00 PM Eastern. The in-person event will take place in Henderson, Kentucky, but an option to participate via Zoom will be available. According to the agenda, the body will consider resolutions on bylaws, initial toll rates and policies, and procurement of a toll service advisor. The members will also reportedly accept public comment on the agenda items.
Section 2 of the bistate project is dedicated to constructing a new I-69 toll bridge over the river. Consistent with the operating model they adopted for the Louisville-Southern Indiana Ohio River Bridges Project, the states established the tolling body in January to develop tolling policies and business rules and set toll rates. The members are the Kentucky Public Transportation Infrastructure Authority chair, a person to be designated by the chair, the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet secretary, the Indiana DOT commissioner, and a person to be designated by the commissioner.
Sources: INDOT event notice, WEHT News, TRN
ETC Systems I-69 Ohio River Crossing (I-69 ORX) Indiana Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) Kentucky Kentucky Transportation Cabinet Toll Rate-SettingMassachusetts Starts Issuing Passive RFID Stickers To E-ZPass Customers
Massachusetts is phasing out the use of hard-case toll transponders. Effective March 1, MassDOT started issuing small, passive E-ZPass windshield stickers to new toll account holders and motorists replacing out-dated transponders.
MassDOT Undersecretary Jonathan Gulliver said the less obtrusive stickers will save the state $7 million each year. Because the department issues transponders at no charge and the stickers cost just 55 cents, they are a bargain compared to the $6.70 price of the hard-case devices. Motorists who lose or break a transponder will also get a financial break, since they will get a sticker for free and avoid paying the $20.oo Massachusetts used to charge for a plastic replacement. Functional hard-case transponders don’t have to be replaced.
Gulliver, noting that many other E-ZPass system members have already transitioned to stickers, commented that Massachusetts was “lagging.”
Source: WBUR News
AET (All-Electronic Tolling) E-ZPass Massachusetts Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) Massachusetts Turnpike Transponder RFID TechnologyOklahoma Opens Creek Turnpike To More Trucks With Wide Loads
The Oklahoma Turnpike Authority (OTA) has removed a 13.5-foot width restriction that caused many heavy trucks to divert off the Creek Turnpike (SH-364) onto secondary roads and streets in an area southeast of Tulsa. The authority substituted its systemwide 16-foot width standard, resulting in fewer traffic backups, less wear and tear on local streets, and the opening of a new route for commercial vehicles.
A state senator responding to constituent concerns determined that the original limit was based on the width of lanes in toll plazas removed after the turnpike’s 2023 conversion to all-electronic, open-road tolling. He conferred with OTA officials who agreed that the removal of obsolete infrastructure allowed more trucks carrying oversized loads to avoid detouring. OTA also noted that upgrades accompanying the conversion, such as ramp and exit widening, supported the turnpike’s accommodation of larger trucks.
Source: KTUL News
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