Feds release toll facilities database - rather empty still
Posted Fri, 2007-08-03 19:22
The feds are doing a toll facilities database - more precisely the office of operations at FHWA. The database is a work in progress, the most polite phrase we can contrive to say it misses many of the most important toll facilities in America. But to emphasize the positive it does have 40 facilities listed, though one we spot is no longer a tolllroad - the Daniel Boone Parkway in Kentucky. Toll collection ended there a while ago.
Just taking a glance, nothing exhaustive, we see a heck of a lot of omissions.
For Virginia there's no Dulles Toll Road, Dulles Greenway, Chesapeake Expressway, Downtown Expressway Richmond, Powhite Parkway, Coleman Bridge, or
Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel.
In Maryland the Kennedy Highway (I-95), the Key Bridge and the Baltimore Harbor Tunnel are missing, also the Chesapeake Bay Bridge. No Mon Fayette Expressway in Pennylvania, although the federal government has provided lots of money for that. Also for the West Virginia Turnpike. It's missing too.
All the 15 toll bridges and tunnels in New York City and on the NYC-NJ including the world busiest toll bridge the George Washington, and the country's busiest tunnel the Lincoln are missing. No Verrazano Narrows Bridge, or Triborough or Throgs Neck or Whitestone bridge, or Queens Midtown Tunnel, or Brooklyn Battery Tunnel. Collectively these 15 gross about $2.5b/year about a third of the toll revenues of the country.
Missing are most of the toll crossings to Mexico and Canada - about 35 total.
No Atlantic City Expressway in Jersey.
No Westpark Tollway Houston.
The Denver area's E470 and NW Parkway are no shows.
None of the four tollways of the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority in the Chicago area which constitute the largest of any system by numbers of daily transactions - over 2 million daily. No Tristate, no Northwest, no North-South, no East West Tollway.
No Indiana Toll Road, and this is supposed to be an administration that favors longterm concessions.
Missing too is the President George Bush Turnpike in Dallas and all the new tollroads in the Austin TX area - 183A, Loop 1, SH45 and SH130. Not to speak of Loop 49 in Tyler.
We don't see any mention of the New Orleans toll facilities, the Crescent City Connection or the Ponchartrain Causeway.
They are missing a couple of tollroads in the Orlando area and all of those in the Tampa area. We don't see any of Miami's tollroads or bridges either.
No Delaware Memorial Bridge, none of the NJ-PA toll bridges actually, either in the Philly area (Ben Franklin, Walt Whitman) or up the Delaware River. I-78 and I-80 Delaware crossings free? Probably 15 MIAs there.
Rhode Island's toll bridges, and the turnpikes of two states are missing - New Hampshire and Maine.
The I-394 toll lanes in Minneapolis don't get listed.
Not a mention of the Massachusetts Turnpike (understandable) or the three Boston Harbor tunnels (Callahan, Sumner, Williams) or the Tobin Bridge.
There are bunch of no shows in Florida and no Foothill and Eastern TR in Orange County California.
No Tacoma Narrows Bridge in Washington state.
Most of the Bay area toll facilities don't show.
Dammit, there's not even a listing for the Golden Gate Bridge!
We give up.
People whose facilities are missing are asked to contact wayne.berman@dot.gov
see http://www.ops.fhwa.dot.gov/tolling_pricing/resources/toll_facilities_info/search.cfm
TOLLROADSnews 2007-08-03
The feds are doing a toll facilities database - more precisely the office of operations at FHWA. The database is a work in progress, the most polite phrase we can contrive to say it misses many of the most important toll facilities in America. But to emphasize the positive it does have 40 facilities listed, though one we spot is no longer a tolllroad - the Daniel Boone Parkway in Kentucky. Toll collection ended there a while ago.Just taking a glance, nothing exhaustive, we see a heck of a lot of omissions.
For Virginia there's no Dulles Toll Road, Dulles Greenway, Chesapeake Expressway, Downtown Expressway Richmond, Powhite Parkway, Coleman Bridge, or
Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel.In Maryland the Kennedy Highway (I-95), the Key Bridge and the Baltimore Harbor Tunnel are missing, also the Chesapeake Bay Bridge. No Mon Fayette Expressway in Pennylvania, although the federal government has provided lots of money for that. Also for the West Virginia Turnpike. It's missing too.
All the 15 toll bridges and tunnels in New York City and on the NYC-NJ including the world busiest toll bridge the George Washington, and the country's busiest tunnel the Lincoln are missing. No Verrazano Narrows Bridge, or Triborough or Throgs Neck or Whitestone bridge, or Queens Midtown Tunnel, or Brooklyn Battery Tunnel. Collectively these 15 gross about $2.5b/year about a third of the toll revenues of the country.
Missing are most of the toll crossings to Mexico and Canada - about 35 total.
No Atlantic City Expressway in Jersey.
No Westpark Tollway Houston.
The Denver area's E470 and NW Parkway are no shows.
None of the four tollways of the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority in the Chicago area which constitute the largest of any system by numbers of daily transactions - over 2 million daily. No Tristate, no Northwest, no North-South, no East West Tollway.
No Indiana Toll Road, and this is supposed to be an administration that favors longterm concessions.
Missing too is the President George Bush Turnpike in Dallas and all the new tollroads in the Austin TX area - 183A, Loop 1, SH45 and SH130. Not to speak of Loop 49 in Tyler.
We don't see any mention of the New Orleans toll facilities, the Crescent City Connection or the Ponchartrain Causeway.
They are missing a couple of tollroads in the Orlando area and all of those in the Tampa area. We don't see any of Miami's tollroads or bridges either.
No Delaware Memorial Bridge, none of the NJ-PA toll bridges actually, either in the Philly area (Ben Franklin, Walt Whitman) or up the Delaware River. I-78 and I-80 Delaware crossings free? Probably 15 MIAs there. Rhode Island's toll bridges, and the turnpikes of two states are missing - New Hampshire and Maine.
The I-394 toll lanes in Minneapolis don't get listed.
Not a mention of the Massachusetts Turnpike (understandable) or the three Boston Harbor tunnels (Callahan, Sumner, Williams) or the Tobin Bridge.
There are bunch of no shows in Florida and no Foothill and Eastern TR in Orange County California.
No Tacoma Narrows Bridge in Washington state.
Most of the Bay area toll facilities don't show.
Dammit, there's not even a listing for the Golden Gate Bridge!
We give up.
People whose facilities are missing are asked to contact wayne.berman@dot.gov
see http://www.ops.fhwa.dot.gov/tolling_pricing/resources/toll_facilities_info/search.cfm
TOLLROADSnews 2007-08-03