e-470

Bush Turnpike in Dallas, E470 Denver go all-electronic this week (ADDITIONS)


North Texas Tollway Authority on the President George Bush Turnpike and E470 Public Highway Authority in Denver CO will cease all cash toll collection this week. The conversions to all-electronic tolling (AET) will be very differently conducted.

E470 to end cash collection in July 2009, camera tolls to start Jan 1


E470 tollroad in the eastern part of Denver CO will become fully electronic and cease cash toll collection July 4 2009.They've coined the term 'Non Stop Tolling' for all-electronic toll collection. First stage of the process will be introduction of camera tolling brandnamed 'License Plate Toll' on Jan 1 2009 under which motorists without transponders will be allowed to whiz through the highspeed electronic toll lanes previously reserved to those with transponders.

E470 makes further move to banish signals - new $18m 'skiers ramp' opens


E470 Public Highway Authority (E470PHA) in Denver have opened a grand new 2.33km (7645ft) long direct connector being nicknamed the skiers' ramp because it takes northbound E470 tollroad motorists way up and over the complex roadway spaghetti to head westbound on I-70 up into the Rocky Mountains. Ramp H as it is named in the highway planners' jargon is 2 lanes plus shoulders with 493m (1616ft) of steel plate girder bridging in about ten spans, the rest embankment.

E470 in Colorado to study all electronic toll collection - cashless tolling


E470 may be the second established US toll system after Texas' NTTA to do away with cash toll collection. The board of the E470 Public Highway Authority (E470PHA) Sept 13 heard a proposal from staff for a move to all-electronic tolling (AET). Wilbur Smith Associates will produce a report by December.

E470 EXpressToll accounts 250k with 463k transponders


E-470 Public Highway Authority have announced that their EXpressToll accounts are past the quarter million mark with 463k transponders on issue. The Denver metro area has around 2.8m people and probably 2.3m motor vehicles so around one in five vehicles in the area has a transponder. (see note below on FHWA's rubbish statistics)

E470PHA report that accounts by city are:

IBTTA:Vezz defined


IBTTA:Vezz defined

Originally published in issue 48 of Tollroads Newsletter, which came out in Apr 2000.

Page:10

Subjects:VES VPS violations open road

Denver’s E-470 traffic increase


Denver’s E-470 traffic increase

Originally published in issue 45 of Tollroads Newsletter, which came out in Jan 2000.

Page:9

Subjects:traffic

Facilities:E-470

Agencies:E-470 PHA

Locations:Denver CO

CORRECTION:E-470 Was First with Multi-lane Open Road Highway Speed ET


CORRECTION:E-470 Was First with Multi-lane Open Road Highway Speed ET

Originally published in issue 42 of Tollroads Newsletter, which came out in Sep 1999.

Page:20

Subjects:first in highway speed open road tolling

DENVER CO:470 Toll Beltway Continues Counter-Clockwise


DENVER CO:470 Toll Beltway Continues Counter-Clockwise

Originally published in issue 42 of Tollroads Newsletter, which came out in Sep 1999.

Page:18

Subjects:new toll road environmentalist enviro opposition anti-road

Facilities:E-470 B-470 Northwest Parkway NW Pwy

Agencies:E-470 NW Parkway Public Road Authority

Locations:Denver CO Broomfield

COLORADO E-470


COLORADO E-470 – a developmental pike in cow paddocks

Originally published in issue 29 of Tollroads Newsletter, which came out in Jul 1998.

Page:13

Subjects:developmental pike

Facilities:E-470 Denver-Boulder Turnpike

Agencies:E-470 Public Highway Authority PHA

Locations:Denver CO Colorado Boulder

Sources:Stephen Hogan

COLORADO

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