Penn Pike chief Brimmeier denies he claimed PA had 3rd spot for tolling I-80, blasts TOLLROADSnews
Posted Tue, 2007-10-30 08:24
Pennsylvania Turnpike chief executive Joseph Brimmeier now denies he told a meeting of the IBTTA in Vienna about three weeks back that the feds had approved tolling of I-80 and that the state had the third slot or authority out of three allowed in federal law. Two are already allocated under the Interstate System Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Tolling Pilot Program - I-81 in Virginia and I-70 in Missouri.
In a one page letter to James Ray, deputy administrator FHWA dated October 25 in typing
and October 29 with a date stamp and apparently faxed Oct 
29 Brimmeier refers to a recent telephone conversation with Ray and says:
"Again I must unequivocally say that I never stated in Vienna, or in any other place, that 'FHWA approved I-80 for the third slot..' "
He then says TOLLROADSnews is "the original source of this serious misunderstanding" and says this is "not the first time that Peter Samuels (sic) of TollRoadsnews has disseminated misinformation or untruths" and he says "Mr Samuels regularly relies on hearsay, unnamed sources, suppositions, impressions and theories."
Here is a copy of the Brimmeier letter to Ray of Oct 25 or 29.
Here is our earlier report of Oct 10: http://www.tollroadsnews.com/node/3180
Here is the report on Ray's letter on receipt of the Pennyslvania application in which he refers to the Vienna statement and cites TOLLROADSnews: http://www.tollroadsnews.com/node/3196
FOLLOWUP: IBTTA tell us there is no official tape record of the breakout session at which
Brimmeier spoke.
We spoke with a senior Turnpike official the day we posted the article in question and said that if Brimmeier denied our report we'd immediately publish the denial. He promised to follow up but we heard no more until now, nearly three weeks later.
Our promise to readers is to report as accurately and objectively as we are able on the Pennsylvania Turnpike, despite obviously bad relations with Brimmeier. We do apologize for once, early in his term, misspelling his name.
TOLLROADSnews 2007-10-30
Pennsylvania Turnpike chief executive Joseph Brimmeier now denies he told a meeting of the IBTTA in Vienna about three weeks back that the feds had approved tolling of I-80 and that the state had the third slot or authority out of three allowed in federal law. Two are already allocated under the Interstate System Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Tolling Pilot Program - I-81 in Virginia and I-70 in Missouri. In a one page letter to James Ray, deputy administrator FHWA dated October 25 in typing
and October 29 with a date stamp and apparently faxed Oct 29 Brimmeier refers to a recent telephone conversation with Ray and says: "Again I must unequivocally say that I never stated in Vienna, or in any other place, that 'FHWA approved I-80 for the third slot..' "
He then says TOLLROADSnews is "the original source of this serious misunderstanding" and says this is "not the first time that Peter Samuels (sic) of TollRoadsnews has disseminated misinformation or untruths" and he says "Mr Samuels regularly relies on hearsay, unnamed sources, suppositions, impressions and theories."
Here is a copy of the Brimmeier letter to Ray of Oct 25 or 29.
Here is our earlier report of Oct 10: http://www.tollroadsnews.com/node/3180
Here is the report on Ray's letter on receipt of the Pennyslvania application in which he refers to the Vienna statement and cites TOLLROADSnews: http://www.tollroadsnews.com/node/3196
FOLLOWUP: IBTTA tell us there is no official tape record of the breakout session at which
Brimmeier spoke. We spoke with a senior Turnpike official the day we posted the article in question and said that if Brimmeier denied our report we'd immediately publish the denial. He promised to follow up but we heard no more until now, nearly three weeks later.
Our promise to readers is to report as accurately and objectively as we are able on the Pennsylvania Turnpike, despite obviously bad relations with Brimmeier. We do apologize for once, early in his term, misspelling his name.
TOLLROADSnews 2007-10-30
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