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INEX Technologies the video tollers headquartered in Knoxville TN have announced that Louis R Martin, a former executive director of the Pennsylvania Turnpike is joining their board of directors. Martin is trained in both mechanical engineering (U Pittsburgh) and law (Duquesne) but has been practicing law since he stepped down from the Turnpike in August 1991.

Martin was also a director of IBTTA for some years.
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Mark B Florian who led the toll concession and public private partnership effort at Goldman Sachs has left the big New York investment bank to set up his own private fund. Florian is among the most prominent figures in the P3 business and with GS went all over the country  talking the subject, and finding out about prospects.  read more »

Rob Bain, 47, former director in the infrastructure team at Standard & Poor’s London office, has established his own traffic and transportation consultancy providing independent reviews of traffic and revenue forecasts, and credit advisory services to investors. He has just finished a PhD dissertation at the University of Leeds on investor financed roads around the world.
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Nossaman's growing. The LA-based firm of lawyers and lobbyists (L&Ls) specializing in toll road law and lobbying that made do with three or four L&Ls in Washington DC has capitulated to the inevitable, and decided to develop some real clout here in the national capital area. It now has about 25 L&Ls here.
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Alan Allegretto head of Kapsch USA departed the job last week though there has been no announcement. His appointment was announced just six months ago (2008-01-16) but the word is there was a serious disagreement with the head office in Europe about strategy.
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Joseph P Doherty is new group president of all the government business units of Affiliated Computer Services (ACS), the largest customer service provider for the E-ZPass electronic toll system. Doherty is a 20 year veteran of the US Navy, but more recently spend ten years at Computer Sciences Corp where he rose to preisdent of the Americas Division.  

The government business group of ACS where toll systems support is located has its major offices in Washington DC and the Maryland suburbs.

Michael Huerta still rules tolls
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Michael LaPolla, 51, executive director is leaving the New Jersey Turnpike for an undisclosed job in the private sector. LaPolla says he's most proud of the job he did in "fixing E-ZPass." He also presided over the Turnpike Authority's takeover of the Garden State Parkway and managed to administer the Turnpike without scandal or fuss for almost exactly six years.
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Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal has nominated two businessmen to the board of the Greater New Orleans Expressway Commission that operates the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway, the 39km (24 mile) pier style 2+2 lane bridge over the tidal Lake that links New Orleans directly to the north.  read more »

Norman 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!
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Texas governor Rick Perry has nominated a former political aide Deirdre Delisi and a Fort Worth businessman and NTTA commissioner William Meadows to the Texas Transportation Commission which controls major decisions of the Texas DOT. The governor's office said he has "appointed" the two but the state Senate has to confirm the nominations.
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Three professionals are joining the mostly Australian-owned toll systems supplier Transtoll Inc in their Carlsbad CA technical center. They are:

- Rick Carrier, quality assurance and testing, experience in several toll systems projects

- Joseph Erbacher, systems engineer familiar with RF, VOIP, GPS

- Steve Attebery, senior software engineer, longtime toll lane systems specialist
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The sex drive is complicating transportation policymaking in Atlanta GA. Georgia's State Transportation Board Chairman Mike Evans has resigned and Gena Abraham, CEO of the state DOT and of the State Toll Authority has been reprimanded for a love affair.

Abraham, 39 is a divorcee with a son, and Evans, 47 is a divorcee with two daughters.
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Elliot Spitzer's man at the Port Authority NYNJ, Executive Director Anthony Shorris has been sent packing by the new Governor David Paterson in a familiar game of political musical chairs. He handed in his "resignation" today as gubernatorial aides said his likely replacement is Christopher O Ward. 217 words  read more »

The Ohio Turnpike Commission has formally voted in Democrat State Representative George Distel, 55, as their new executive director replacing Republican Gary Suhadolnik. Suhadolnik was asked to resign last month as part of the Republican-Democrat transition following the last elections.

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Friday afternoon Massachusetts Turnpike chief Alan LeBovidge fired four top officers of the Authority:

- Ann Journeay, chief financial officer

- Robert Cole, head toll operations

- George Reed, director human resources

- Paul Anderson, head of employee relations
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Out is Rosa Rountree, 46, the much liked, gutsy, executive director of Georgia Tolls, victim of infighting in Atlanta between the bigs in state government. Unlike too many chief execs of state agencies Rountree has a storied history in the toll business, having worked at PBS&J and ACS on tolling and been operations manager at OOCEA. She was appointed head of Georgia State Roads Toll Authority (GSRTA or 'Surtah') May 2006 and left February 7.
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Texas Gov Perry has appointed Hope Andrade, a commissioner since 2003, as interim chair of the Texas Transportation Commission, the body that governs the operations of Texas DOT including its Turnpike division.
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Longtime head of the turnpike or tolls division of Texas DOT Phil Russell has been promoted to assistant executive director of the department. He is one of three AEDs immediately under the executive director Amadeo Saenz and the deputy executive director.
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