TxDOT
TxDOT's 90% amnesty gets $767k, 1.25% of outstanding tolls & fees - now to courts
Posted on Thu, 2009-12-03 01:42
TxDOT's three month-long 90%-amnesty program on outstanding toll penalty fees garnered about 1.25% of scofflaw debt - $767k out of $61.6m. The recovery of unpaid tolls was much higher - $265k out of $3.2m or 8.3%. Recovery of violation fees was $501k out of $58.4m or about 0.9%.
10,580 people who took advantage of the 90% forgiveness program represented just over 7% of about 150,000 people with serious toll and penalty debts.
TxDOT dumps Trans Texas Corridors - Cintra Zachry contract to be canceled
Posted on Tue, 2009-10-06 20:19
Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) officials plan to announce Wednesday that, in response to citizen
comments received during the environmental review of Trans-Texas Corridor-35, the department has recommended the No Action Alternative on the TTC-35 environmental study to the Federal Highway Administration
TxDOT, Cintra close on N Tarrant Express concession in Dallas
Posted on Wed, 2009-06-24 00:14
TxDOT closed on a 52 year toll concession today with a Cintra-led group on the North Tarrant Express project, a busy complex of expressways I-820 and SH183 on the northwest side of Dallas Fort Worth Airport.
NTTA credit markets "non-existent" but signing concession contracts with TxDOT containing Big Out
Posted on Mon, 2008-10-20 23:21
North Texas Tollway Authority (NTTA) chairman Paul Wageman is quoted: "There is very little or no credit out there right now and the access to the credit markets are almost non-existent." So they are being innovatory.
Norman Wartman is bAAAAck at MDX, and other PERSONNEL developments
Posted on Thu, 2008-05-08 21:33Norman Wartman one of the original members of Miami Dade Expressway Authority is back. This guy was a non-stop generator of ideas, a one-man thinktank,
an unabashed enthusiast for tollroads, scourge of the rail fantasists, impatient with more timid
no-can-do timings-not-right colleagues, and talk about outspoken!
Topping rights & devolution put fed-$s in jeopardy - feds again on HB1892
Posted on Fri, 2007-05-11 14:03
Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) chief counsel James D Ray has written again to TxDOT detailing how the toll concession bill HB1892 contains provisions that put federal support for Texas highways in jeopardy. The procurement process for a SH121 concession detailed in HB1892 providing NTTA with topping rights "seems to directly contradict" the requirements of US law requiring fair and open competition. CORRECTION: LBJ holes:
Posted on Sat, 2000-09-16 12:30CORRECTION: LBJ holes:
Originally published in issue 51 of Tollroads Newsletter, which came out in Sep 2000.
Page:11
Subjects:cost of tunnel correction
Facilities:LBJ I-635
Agencies:TXDOT
Locations:Dallas TX
Sources:Matt McGregor
CORRECTION: LBJ holes
Frank Smith TXDOT to HB
Posted on Sun, 2000-03-26 06:43Frank Smith TXDOT to HB
Originally published in issue 47 of Tollroads Newsletter, which came out in Mar 2000.
Page:21
Subjects:job appointment
Agencies:TXDOT
Locations:TX
Sources:Frank Smith
LBJ FWY DALLAS TX:6 HOT, 8 Free lanes plan Pans Out
Posted on Fri, 1999-07-02 16:30LBJ FWY DALLAS TX:6 HOT, 8 Free lanes plan Pans Out
Originally published in issue 41 of Tollroads Newsletter, which came out in Jul 1999.
Page:1
Subjects:tunnel HOT
Facilities:I-635 LBJ
Agencies:TXDOT
Locations:Dallas TX
FLAWED TEST:High Occupancy Count Technology Still Promising - supplier CRS angry
Posted on Sun, 1999-02-14 02:14FLAWED TEST:High Occupancy Count Technology Still Promising - supplier CRS angry
Originally published in issue 36 of Tollroads Newsletter, which came out in Feb 1999.
Page:9
Subjects:occupant counting HOVER HOV enforcement
Facilities:I-35
Agencies:DART Transformation CRS TXDOT
Locations:Dallas TX
Sources:Shawn Turner Sal DAgostino
SAN ANTONIO TX:Four Pike Projects Mulled
Posted on Tue, 1998-12-08 16:00SAN ANTONIO TX:Four Pike Projects Mulled
Originally published in issue 34 of Tollroads Newsletter, which came out in Dec 1998.
Page:5
Subjects:4 new pike projects including interchange IC toll express lanes
Facilities:Kelly Parkway TX151 TX16 IC TX1604/US281
Agencies:TXDOT TTAD
Locations:San Antonio TX
Sources:Ericksen
HOT IN TEXAS Dallas Plans 6-HOT lanes in new 14-lane LBJ Fwy
Posted on Tue, 1997-06-03 15:27HOT IN TEXAS Dallas Plans 6-HOT lanes in new 14-lane LBJ Fwy
Originally published in issue 16 of Tollroads Newsletter, which came out in Jun 1997.
Page:1
Subjects:HOT
Facilities:LBJ I-635
Agencies:TXDOT
Locations:TX
Sources:Matthew MacGregor
HOT IN TEXAS
Dallas Plans 6-HOT lanes in new 14-lane LBJ fwy
