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2012-10-21 Ambassador Bridge lawyers provoke Canads to enact special shield law for Detroit DRIC

2012-10-21 Sirit president John Freund joining Kapsch - will the Austria-based company compete in sticker tags?

2012-10-20 Tobin Bridge opens new toll plaza arrangement with E-ZPASS ONLY lanes

2012-10-20 3M/Sirit big John Freund reported out PERSONNEL (follow-up addition)

2012-10-19 Virginia resurrects 63-20 not-for-profit to take risk on US460, Ferrovial to do design/build

2012-10-18 MTAB&T's Henry Hudson Bridge set to go cashless late Saturday night Nov 11

2012-10-17 Kentucky & Indiana finalize details of agreement on responsibility split for Ohio River bridges

2012-10-16 Alliance for Toll Interoperability has new executive PERSONNEL

2012-10-16 NTTA opens southern extension of PGBT from I-30 to I-20

2012-10-15 South Africa's auditor-general says tolls needed

2012-10-15 OmniAir making bid to have its Certification Services subsidiary plan testing programs for E-ZPass interoperability effort

2012-10-13 Would Michigan Prop 6 prevent the DRIC bridge? - a discussion with DRIC supporters

2012-10-12 Economist says tolls obvious way to boost economy

2012-10-12 Ohio Turnpike futures to be presented Monday

2012-10-12 "EasyPass" in Tx - new sign of interoperability or just li'l blooper?

2012-10-12 New toll systems manager being sought at TCA - Jim Rhodes leaves PERSONNEL

2012-10-12 Clash between Metro Washington authority and US Sectrans LaHood over tolls versus US $s for Dulles Rail

2012-10-10 TxDOT says reached deal with concessionaire on Segment 3A of North Tarrant Express - I-35W

2012-10-10 'No one loves Matty' is news: new depths of asininity in Detroit-Windsor

2012-10-10 Florida to get more readable license plates

2012-10-09 Penn Pike CEO Roger Nutt retires after 19 months because of heart problems, he says

2012-10-08 New York Times sponsors debate on where toll-$s should go - score tied 2.5 roads/2.5 transit

2012-10-08 Inrix announces freight traffic data

2012-10-08 Former FDIC head Shiela Bair says we're facing "the mother of all bond bubbles" WSJ interview

2012-10-07 National interoperability SECOND THOUGHTS

2012-10-05 Serious pay at private toll operations

2012-10-05 Beautiful Jobs' remembrance and Apple ad

2012-10-05 E-ZPass Group not expecting others to join for national IOP, compiling list of protocols, meeting MPR manufacturers

2012-10-04 Serial misrepresentation of toll bridge ballot measure by Detroit media - Free Press distorts again

2012-10-04 Penn Pike ops chief says ticket system replacement difficult decision with AET committed

2012-10-03 E470 taking new measures to avert wrong-way driving

2012-10-02 Matty Moroun blessed with the noisy clowns as critics EDITORIAL

2012-10-02 Oseola County FL's Poinciana Parkway after DB, CM, $s for Feb 2013 groundbreak

2012-09-30 China's expressways go toll free midnight to 6am

2012-09-28 South Africa's Constitutional Court over-rules Pretoria judge's injunction against start of Gauteng tolls but talks continue with toll critics

2012-09-28 Zachry/Odebrecht get $1.1 billion design-build-maintain-operate contract for 38mi of Grand Parkway north of Houston TX

2012-09-27 DRJTBC swamped with applicants for McCartney's ED job, other bigs retire PERSONNEL

2012-09-27 Pennsylvania sec trans Schoch: "safer" to lift burden of debt on Penn Pike by repeal of Act 44

2012-09-26 Pennsylvania auditor general tells legislators state Turnpike will face bankruptcy within "no more than a couple of years"

2012-09-25 Ambassador Bridge not a US Government instrumentality, federal court in Detroit rules

2012-09-24 US traffic continues to slip - full year estimates for 2011 down 1.2%

2012-09-22 Obama EPA/ACE trying for control of all waters - roadbuilders could be affected

2012-09-22 Illinois Tollway procures new toll operations services from charities for the blind, mentally ill, disabled

2012-09-21 Ambassador Bridge starting all-electronic tolling Oct 1, completion of contentious Gateway project celebrated

2012-09-20 Retirement of Tom Margro CEO of Orange Co Cal TCA, Lisa Telles acting PERSONNEL

2012-09-20 Northern extension of Beltway Express Lanes discussed, Maryland study of Tysons/I-270 XLs

2012-09-19 Dulles Greenway traffic has stopped falling - and that's the first time since 2005

2012-09-18 Nossaman names Patrick Harder new infrastructure chief

2012-09-18 More pikes moving ahead in Dallas Ft Worth metro area

2012-09-17 Them Cowboys TollTags in limited edition

2012-09-14 Cornell University launches program on infrastructure policy

2012-09-14 Thin polymer overlays to protect bridge decks - E470 explains

2012-09-12 Dan McGurran director of former FSTech unit at 3M PERSONNEL

2012-09-12 Ambassador Bridge to go cashless AET with 6C sticker tags, cameras

2012-09-12 E-ZPass chief says "far too early" to declare 6C leading candidate for national interoperability + COMMENT (+PJ Clarification)

2012-09-10 3M/MVS&S gets first certification from Omni-Air for 6C

2012-09-10 New USDOT DBE regs on defining ethnicity of kid with Norwegian ma & pa born in Chile LIGHT READING

2012-09-10 Federal Signal Technologies now part of 3M ADDITIONS

2012-09-10 Central Texas TRs to go cashless Jan 1, 2013 - one-off cost $2.3m, saving $8.5m year on-going

2012-09-09 IBTTA annual meeting in Orlando

2012-09-07 Michigan Gov's office joins in scaremongering & misrepresentation over ballot on state-$s for new toll bridge

2012-09-07 New MWAA ramp for Dulles Airport Access Highway in I-495 interchange upgrade

2012-09-07 VDOT selling E-ZPass through AAA, Wegmans, Giant

2012-09-06 85mph OK'd for Texas SH130 segments 5 and 6

2012-09-06 Michigan Supreme Court rules that DRIC bridge funding by the state should be on ballot

2012-09-06 Illinois Tollway taking half a million deadbeats to court - after $300m in unpaid tolls + penalties

2012-09-05 VA asks Feds for OK to toll only one point on I-95, tolls only to top up tax-$s

2012-09-04 Capital Beltway toll lanes concessionaire offers 2-weeks toll-free for early sign-up, sets $12.50 penalties for no tag

2012-09-03 Texas Transportation Commission Waives Fee for Select Veterans Driving on State Toll Roads

2012-09-03 EQUIPMENT SALE: SAIC & MISC. TOLL EQUIPMENT

2012-09-03 Pre-Bid: FBGPTRA Violation Processing Center

2012-09-01 Rietsch, Ramirez, Duffy, Leahy out with 3M takeover of FSTech

2012-08-31 TransCore wins toll system contract for Grand Parkway, Segment D in Ft Bend Co west of Houston

2012-08-31 3M takeover of FS Tech sees several senior people displaced PERSONNEL

2012-08-31 MoPac northern artery out of Austin TX getting toll lanes

2012-08-31 Select vets' toll-free status spreads from Dallas to TxDOT TRs

2012-08-29 Breaking ground on Louisville KY-IN metro area toll bridges

2012-08-29 Emergency call booths on Atlantic City Expressway being removed

2012-08-29 Chesapeake Bay Bridge WB span closed after "unusual movement" - big tarp the culprit

2012-08-29 Penn Pike debt soaring on Act 44 payouts for transit/free roads - tripled in 5 years +ADDITION

2012-08-28 Jacksonville FL Outer Beltway moving forward with tolls - first 15 miles starting construction

2012-08-26 The anti-toll opposition's naive notion of 'ring fencing' a new fuel tax – the sad American experience: An op-ed for a S African newspaper

2012-08-26 Apple shows how NOT to sell on the web - frustrating would-be purchasers of new OS

2012-08-24 Houston TX area toll rates rising Sept 8 by average 10 percent

2012-08-23 Dumb, dumb journalism in the Poconos EDITORIAL

2012-08-23 NH does second ORT conversion - at Hooksett toll plaza on I-93

2012-08-23 July dull month for traffic at US-Canada border

2012-08-22 Volvo of Dallas sponsoring Legion of Valor tolls on North Texas pikes

2012-08-22 MWAA board members kids get summer jobs - and they have no apology

2012-08-22 Federal Signal program manager for TxDOT resigned - wasn't "fired" as we reported CORRECTION

2012-08-22 New York Governor gets metro area OK for new Tappan Zee Bridge - now after TIFIA loan

2012-08-20 Marty Stone lights into Honolulu rail planner distorting Tampa El, urges honest comparison with toll lanes

2012-08-20 OmniAir accredits lab to test and certify 6C for toll interoperability (IOP)

2012-08-20 33mph is "high-speed" for rail transit - PATCO

2012-08-20 Wikipedia declares DNT and E470 both "first" in electronic tolling

2012-08-17 Cars more economical, as energy efficient, improving faster than bus and rail

2012-08-17 Texas SH130/5&6 to open by mid-November - 41 mile toll concession

2012-08-17 MWAA opens public comment period on proposed doubling of tolls on Dulles Toll Road

2012-08-17 Oldest ticket scam with new automatic toll payment machines on Ohio Turnpike

2012-08-16 Maine Turnpike upping cash tolls most steeply on November 1, E-ZPass up 15%