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2012-04-25 Glenn Deitiker heading BancPass (PERSONNEL)

2012-04-24 GA/I-85 toll lanes lookin' peachier - strong growth in traffic at 6th month

2012-04-24 Highspeed escort of footballer's fancy cars on wild drive down GSP causes stir

2012-04-24 MO/I-70 tolls plan blocked by special interest lobbies - truckers, roadside stores

2012-04-23 "No more large projects are possible without tolls" - VA sec transport Sean Connaughton

2012-04-22 Macquarie US traffic up slightly Q1, European traffic all down, $s up a tad on most

2012-04-22 Canadian state pension fund increases tollroad holdings with Chile buy

2012-04-22 Pier 19 is no more - Michigan DOT gets its way

2012-04-22 Response to Ambassador Bridge petition move by new bridge groupies COMMENT

2012-04-21 Escorts of escorts - Grope & Change

2012-04-20 Ambassador Bridge co battles on - going to Supreme Court, announces petition for popular ballot

2012-04-20 Bart Mueller leaving SJTA (PERSONNEL)

2012-04-20 TxDOT says hackers tried to get into TxTag accounts system, caused nuisance (CORRECTION)

2012-04-20 Virginia gone to financial close on $2.1b Norfolk crossings P3, compromises on toll timing, coverage

2012-04-20 NTTA doing competitive procurement of legal services

2012-04-20 AASHTO opposes federal power grab on tolls

2012-04-20 US Sec calls US "one big pothole… nothing's happening" without Dems' bill

2012-04-20 Occupy movement threatening Golden Gate Bridge

2012-04-19 Sen Lautenberg (Dem, NJ) reduced to near incoherence by PANYNJ's Bill Baroni in senate transport committee session

2012-04-18 Self-funding toll projects as a work of the Enlightenment QUOTABLE QUOTE

2012-04-18 Demo of Ambassador Bridge Pier 19 PICTURES

2012-04-18 Gerry Carrigan confirmed full ED at NTTA (PERSONNEL)

2012-04-18 Huge costs of toll-financed Dulles Rail for end-of-line-county

2012-04-17 MDOT demo squads at Ambassador Bridge cause huge traffic backups

2012-04-17 Oldtown Bridge MD-WV facing major regulatory problems for toll hike

2012-04-17 "I am proud I brought home the bacon"

2012-04-16 Kentucky delays selection of investor team for Ohio River bridges because of lege-gridlock

2012-04-16 FHWA responds to TOLLROADSnews' criticism of their toll data

2012-04-15 Operators report March up 4.9% over 2011-03, car travel stronger, trucks weak

2012-04-13 Ambassador Bridge company loses yet another in court - MDOT can come in and build

2012-04-13 FHWA Office of Highway Policy Information - sloppy & stupid

2012-04-13 Canadians cut border staff by 9 percent - more delays at border crossings

2012-04-13 Toll express lanes help East Bay commuters to Silicon Valley jobs in N Calif

2012-04-11 Fairfax Co VA endorses Phase 2 of Dulles Rail, 75% on Dulles TR tolls

2012-04-11 Ambassador Bridge company's plan for new parallel span takes hit in US court

2012-04-10 Kansas Turnpike says tornado shelters open to patrons

2012-04-10 Oregon's Road User Charge Demonstrations - RFP deadline extended

2012-04-10 Them doin nuffin ain't necessarily the worst they could do - economist Tom Sowell EDITORIAL

2012-04-09 Toll projects generate controversy in Virginia

2012-04-08 NTTA recruits car dealership to sign up motorists for TollTag accounts

2012-04-08 Paul Violette's remorse COMMENT

2012-04-08 Tampa's Veterans Expressway being part widened and tolls converted to all-electronic

2012-04-07 Austin TX area 183A opens 5 mile extension north, now near 10 miles tolled

2012-04-06 Road group suggests reversible toll lanes on MD/I-495 Capital Beltway

2012-04-06 Obama refutes 'birthers' with line on Supreme Court powers FUN

2012-04-06 Paul Violette former Maine Turnpiker sent to jail for 3 1/2 years

2012-04-06 ACS wins contract with New Hampshire for new toll systems

2012-04-05 Personal thoughts on Paul Violette facing jail in Maine OPEN LETTER

2012-04-05 Posted speed limits on Texas tollways going to 80mph - America's fastest pikes

2012-04-04 Motorists paying for trip time reliability in toll managed lanes - FL/I-95 Express featured as Fitch Ratings case study

2012-04-03 Those who oppose bigger unfunded US Government grants are "bozos" or "flat-earthers" - Pete DeFazio

2012-04-03 Ambassador Bridge company files appeal against county judge's order transferring Gateway Plaza work to state DOT

2012-04-03 In reporting suicide of MWAA former chairman Charles Snelling we exaggerated his early Dulles Toll Road/Rail role (CLARIFICATION)

2012-04-01 Illiana Expressway planning, permitting progresses

2012-04-01 Markets for new road - Houston, Atlanta, Dallas, Phoenix, Wash DC, Miami show biggest population growth

2012-03-31 Philly's Delaware River toll authority "culture" of waste, mismanagement, corruption - NJ state controller

2012-03-30 Recently retired MWAA/Dulles TR chairman kills sick wife, then himself

2012-03-30 New Potomac toll bridge being discussed - to link Montgomery Co MD, Fairfax Co VA

2012-03-29 Temporary exec Crumit gets praise in Orlando PERSONNEL

2012-03-29 Study of Maine East-West Toll Road getting $300k from state

2012-03-29 New Hampshire Turnpike drops price of E-ZPass transponders from $20.95 to $8.90

2012-03-28 Report proposes extensive tolling in SE Florida - $20.1b new toll-managed lanes and tolled arterial underpasses

2012-03-28 28 companies respond to Oregon-organized road use charge pilot

2012-03-27 Fixing America's freeways, make them tollways - Poole puts the case powerfully

2012-03-26 Michigan DOT issues RFQ for Ambassador Bridge "Gateway Completion Project"

2012-03-26 Colorado seeking competitors to Parsons road/transit proposal for I-70 in Rockies

2012-03-26 Florida's Turnpike airs TV ad on all-electronic toll (AET) conversion

2012-03-23 Ambassador Bridge company appealing against state takeover of Gateway Plaza

2012-03-23 AR/I-40 Little Rock-Memphis to be studied for toll feasibility

2012-03-22 High Dulles tolls threaten Washington Airports Authority rail project

2012-03-22 Sloppy packing of transponders by ACS leads to charges in the mails - Rhode Island toll says

2012-03-22 Dallas TX NTTA seeking traffic and revenue services consultants

2012-03-22 TTI gets contract with MassDOT for toll collection consulting work

2012-03-20 Maryland likely to take staged approach to all-electronic tolling

2012-03-20 Promiscuous use of LUST $s in US Senate

2012-03-19 British prime minister Cameron wants tolls on new capacity

2012-03-19 Ambassador Bridge company pays state $16m as ordered for work it estimated it could do for $6m

2012-03-19 Accomplished NoVA biz exec attracted to MWAA as VA rep PERSONNEL

2012-03-19 Roads should be built for road users, not for road builders & pols

2012-03-19 "Make sure users pay…ideally with electronic tolling…" Edward Glaeser, Harvard U, QUOTABLE QUOTES

2012-03-19 Ambassador Bridge officers denied appeal of jailing MEDIA COMMENT

2012-03-17 NY Thruway chief hits transit obstructionists of Tappan Zee Bridge

2012-03-17 West Virginia detoll move fizzles

2012-03-17 Federal road-$s bill S1813 continues current toll rules - gridlock confirmed

2012-03-16 Maryland toll authority pushes to modernize law on violators HB1375

2012-03-14 Tollbooth graveyard - nice feature in Star Ledger

2012-03-14 Toronto's H407 being extended east as a state tollroad (ADDITIONS)

2012-03-14 E-ZPass group announces offer of Affiliate membership to push interoperability (ADDITIONS)

2012-03-14 Michigan DOT to solicit D-B bids for approx $16m completion of Ambassador Bridge Gateway

2012-03-13 Kay Bailey Hutchison and Jeffrey Bingaman's destructive anti-toll bills EDITORIAL

2012-03-12 Reason people have lost their minds - they're supporting Ron Paul! EDITORIAL + FOLLOWUP

2012-03-12 Indiana seeks DBFOM contractor for Louisville/south IN metro area East End bridge Ohio River

2012-03-11 Former NY, NJ governors hit politicized PANYNJ

2012-03-10 Battle over control of Orlando pike representation raises issue of who's least corruptible UPDATED

2012-03-09 Tom Kramek takes Charlie Mitchell's old GM position at TRMI (PERSONNEL)

2012-03-09 Judge Edwards drops jailings, transfers Ambassador Bridge Gateway project to Michigan DOT, bridge company to put up $16m

2012-03-08 Tolling coalition urges US Senate to embrace Carper-Kirk amendment 1670 expanding state toll rights, oppose Hutchinson's #1568

2012-03-08 Cashouts of sick/vacation leave at New Jersey Turnpike go back to Republicans - IFPTE Local 194 negotiator

2012-03-07 Michigan DOT attorney claims "no progress" by Ambassador Bridge company on Gateway project - back to Jailin Judge Thursday

2012-03-07 South Africa's union bosses threaten to block new toll system with mobs