e-470

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 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 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 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.

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:

COLORADO