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Maryland toll authority to sign 35 year $180m/$198m PV concession on I-95 Kennedy Hwy service plazas
Posted on Thu, 2012-01-26 01:38
The board of directors of Maryland Transportation Authority (MdTA) operator of the I-95 Kennedy Highway Toll Road has approved signing of a 35 year concession on its two service plazas. The selected concessionaire Areas USA is a local subsidiary of a large established international company Grupo Areas SA head-officed in Barcelona Spain with major food concessions in 70 airports and 160 other toll and travel service plazas mostly in Europe and Latin America.
Harold Bartlett returns to be full chief executive Maryland tolls PERSONNEL
Posted on Tue, 2011-09-27 20:45
There's a new old chief of tolls in Maryland. Harold M Bartlett is returning as chief executive of the Maryland Transportation Authority (MdTA), the state's operator of eight toll facilities that collect $325m/year in tolls.
Maryland Toll to replace 1950s tunnel approach viaduct
Posted on Mon, 2011-08-15 14:35
MdTA Maryland's state toll authority is moving to replace the 3,500ft, 1.1km long Canton Viaduct, a mid-1950s elevated roadway that carries 2x2 lanes of MD/I-895 over port facilities. It hoists traffic over 19 port railroad lines, truck parking areas, several local streets, and a couple of ramps of MD/I-95.
Maryland's obsolete Bay Bridge takes another life - need for a memorial plan to improve
Posted on Wed, 2011-04-27 21:32
Harry Blauvelt, a wellknown sports reporter died last Monday around 10:30am on Maryland's Chesapeake Bay Bridge (CBB). He was traveling in a single eastbound lane on the older southern 2-lane span, the second lane being closed for maintenance. Blauvelt's car broke down and he stopped in the roadway - there is no shoulder. He got out of his car, which moments later was hit by a following flatbed truck driven by 63-year old Enos Sage.
ACS, A Xerox Company, Helping Maryland Drivers Get There Quicker with All-Electronic Road
Posted on Wed, 2011-03-30 11:19
ACS, A Xerox Company, Helping Maryland Drivers Get There Quicker with All-Electronic Road
Ron Freeland from MdTA to TY Lin PERSONNEL
Posted on Mon, 2010-07-19 12:50Ron Freeland executive secretary of the Maryland (Toll) Transportation Authority (MdTA) for nearly the past four years is joining the engineering firm TY Lin as mid-Atlantic director. Freeland, a quietly spoken man seems to have a talent for defusing conflict and remaining amazingly uncontroversial (and a bore for reporters) during controversies.
At the same time some interesting projects have moved forward in Freeland's period in charge - major ones being the Inter County Connector tollroad in Montgomery County north of DC, and toll lanes on I-95 north of Baltimore.
Peter and Jack Basso - tussle of twins (PERSONNEL)
Posted on Tue, 2010-04-06 09:26
Transportation governance in the Washington DC metro area suffers from a serious surfeit of Bassos, Peter and Jack, identical twins, each of them bald guys wearing a perpetually happy smile, age mid-50s. 
Maryland ICC to toll cars 10c to 35c/mile - first all-electronic tollroad in eastern US
Posted on Fri, 2009-12-18 00:47
Maryland's Intercounty Connector (ICC or MD200) in the northern suburbs of Washington DC metro area will
manage free flow with tolls that could vary between 10c/mile and 35c/mile (6c/km to 22c/km) for cars.
NON-JOINERS:Virginia, Maryland stay out of E-ZPass
Posted on Wed, 2001-04-04 01:50NON-JOINERS:Virginia, Maryland stay out of E-ZPass
Originally published in issue 54 of Tollroads Newsletter, which came out in Mar 2001.
Page:20
Subjects:non-joiners of E-ZPasss interoperability IO
Agencies:VDOT MDTA
Locations:Maryland Virginia MD VA
Sources:Daughtry
Tunnel fatalities
Posted on Sun, 2000-07-09 07:04Tunnel fatalities
Originally published in issue 50 of Tollroads Newsletter, which came out in Jul 2000.
Page:3
Subjects:fatalities safety
Facilities:Fort McHenry Tunnel
Agencies:MdTA
Locations:Baltimore MD
