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Slow the media's rush to judgment on HOT Lane startups - Charles Prestrud
Posted on Fri, 2011-11-04 23:16The CongestionPric List recently carried discussions of the rocky startup of the Georgia I-85 HOT lanes northeast of Atlanta several weeks back, and comment on how the news media is inclined to pass judgment on just a few days operation. And if the tolling startup doesn't work perfectly on those early days when the cameras are out on the overpasses then the reporters are inclined to report the whole project as a "failure" and a "fiasco."
Phil Frame, PR for Ambassador Bridge company quits… to run his own biz (PERSONNEL)
Posted on Thu, 2011-01-20 19:04Representing the Ambassador Bridge company in Detroit to the media has to be one of the toughest PR jobs around the north American continent. Owner Matty Moroun, his son Manuel and company president Dan Stamper are probably the subjects of more passionate vilification - by no means entirely unearned - than all the rest of the toll execs in north America combined.
On the word 'toll' (COMMUNICATIONS)
Posted on Tue, 2010-06-22 00:50In most of the english speaking world there are toll roads, or tollroads to use the composite word preferred here. The term 'toll' is used more generally as a synonym for cost - and usually it is used in the context of a major burdensome cost.
Pennsylvania concessionaire rep calls for public debates with Turnpike Commission
Posted on Fri, 2008-06-20 22:49A statement today issued by Pennsylvania Transportation Partners (PTP) the Abertis-Citi concessionaire group calls on the Turnpike
Commission to engage in a series of debates on a lease versus Act 44 - the state law tolling I-80 and keeping the mainline in the hands of the Commission.
Maine Turnpike trip to Vienna IBTTA generates a story at home but the Turnpike got it out first
Posted on Fri, 2007-10-05 23:24
Type
'Maine Turnpike' and 'Vienna' in a Google search box and you'll see
that the Turnpike delegation of five attending the IBTTA annual
conference in Vienna is big news back home. The list of stories goes on
for several pages. Most of them are variants of an AP story by Francis
X Quinn though one or two others picked up on it separately.NY Thruway facilitators
Posted on Tue, 2000-08-15 03:50NY Thruway facilitators
Originally published in issue 50 of Tollroads Newsletter, which came out in Jul 2000.
Page:21
Subjects:PR politicking
Facilities:Thruway NYSTA
Agencies:NYSTA
Locations:NY
Dog bites ET Lawyer
Posted on Sat, 2000-04-22 20:49Dog bites ET Lawyer
Originally published in issue 48 of Tollroads Newsletter, which came out in Apr 2000.
Page:23
Subjects:dog bites lawyer
Locations:PR Puerto Rico
Value Eng Propaganda by FHWA
Posted on Mon, 1999-10-25 02:40Value Eng Propaganda by FHWA
Originally published in issue 43 of Tollroads Newsletter, which came out in Oct 1999.
Page:17
Subjects:value engineering
Facilities:VA-895
Agencies:VDOT FHWA
Locations:Richmond VA
Sources:PR Public Roads
CARIBBEAN:Puerto Rico seeks ETC
Posted on Mon, 1999-05-31 22:00CARIBBEAN:Puerto Rico seeks ETC
Originally published in issue 40 of Tollroads Newsletter, which came out in Jun 1999.
Page:1
Subjects:ETC planned
Facilities:PR
Agencies:PRHTA
Locations:Puerto Rico
Sources:Bain
Puerto Rico ETC
Posted on Thu, 1999-05-06 15:46Puerto Rico ETC
Originally published in issue 39 of Tollroads Newsletter, which came out in May 1999.
Page:3
Subjects:ETC RFP
Facilities:PR
Agencies:PRHTA
Locations:PUERTO RICO PR
