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Orlando toll gets new chairman, Ketcham (PERSONNEL)
Posted on Sun, 2010-02-07 19:00Orlando Orange County Expressway Authority (OOCEA) gets a new chairman, Walter Ketcham, as mayor Rich Crotty steps down. Ketcham, 62, has been a member of the board for less than a year. He is a trial lawyer who says he does "insurance defense, automobile liability, products liability, personal
injury, dental malpractice, subrogation, wrongful death, municipal and governmental law, amusement park liability and legal malpractice."
Free sticker tag transponders in Orlando FL
Posted on Sun, 2010-01-24 16:20
Orlando Orange County Expressway Authority (OOCEA) is likely to follow Florida's Turnpike in offering sticker-tag transponders free. They have already been giving away limited numbers of the E-PASS Minis - as they are called - in special promotions. Staff have proposed free issue of sticker tags be regularized and the board of the authority is expected to formally endorse the proposal when they meet Jan 27.
408 Toll in Orlando FL widened to 10 lanes for a stretch around CBD (REVISED)
Posted on Tue, 2009-11-24 03:03
November 22 and 23 Orlando Orange County Expressway Authority (OOCEA) opened 1.4km (0.86 miles) of two extra lanes
eastbound on the FL408 East-West Expressway over the Lake Underhill Bridge between Conway Rd to Crystal Lake Drive. This links two recently widened segments either side eliminating a "pinch point".
Orlando toller completes FL414 Apopka pike - opening ceremony
Posted on Fri, 2009-05-15 18:57
John Land Apopka Expressway TOLL 414 (FL414) fully opened to traffic Friday afternoon, the seventh tollroad in the Olrando Florida metro area and the fifth of Orlando Orange County (Toll) Expressway Authority (OOCEA). A western portion of TOLL 414 opened to transponder-equipped E-PASS, SunPass traffic February 14 but now the whole tollroad is open at noon today (2009-05-15) including cash payers.
Orlando press finds hints of CEO Snyder links to political fundraising
Posted on Sun, 2009-04-05 20:22
Orlando Sentinel newspaper reports this weekend grand jury records apparently linking Orlando Orange County (Toll) Expressway Authority (OOCEA) chief executive Mike Snyder to the political fundraising from toll authority vendors. This long drawn out affair has cast a pall over OOCEA over the last several years.
A February 2006 memo written by the tollroad's then PR and marketing chief Ron Pecora on a "fundraising strategy meeting" said:
Orlando toller votes to confirm toll increases, adopt no-politics policy
Posted on Fri, 2009-03-27 23:44
Orlando Orange County (Toll) Expressway Authority's board of directors voted unanimously this week to confirm toll increases provisionally voted at the February meeting. The toll hike occurs amid a storm of controversy in the interim after revelation of abuses by Allan Keen, a former chairman, and the use of major OOCEA consultant/contractor PBS&J to hit on vendors for political campaign contributions for Republican candidates 2003 to 2006.
Public fight over PBS&J at Orlando toller
Posted on Sun, 2009-03-22 21:44
Orlando FL mayor and chair of the toll authority Rich Crotty says he wants longtime operations contractor and consultant PBS&J out at the Orlando Orange County (Toll) Expressway Authority (OOCEA).
Major shakeup at Orlando FL toller promised by chairman
Posted on Thu, 2009-03-12 16:15
Orange county mayor and Orlando toll authority chair Rich Crotty says he's planning a major shakeup of the Orlando Orange County (Toll) Expressway Authority (OOCEA) including cancellation of a longstanding engineering contract with PBS&J and firing chief executive Mike Snyder. Crotty was responding in the local media to a scathing letter by Harvey L Massey, a prominent local businessman and the chairman of the toll authority's audit committee.
Orlando toller ex-chair Keen did "organized shakedown" of vendors - grand jury
Posted on Sun, 2009-03-01 02:37
A grand jury report in Orlando Florida says that under former chairman Allan Keen there was a "culture of corruption" at the Orlando Orange County Expressway Authority (OOCEA) that amounted to an "organized shakedown" of vendors on behalf of Republican candidates for office.
Orlando raising tolls about a third April 5 - first toll hike since July 1990
Posted on Fri, 2009-02-27 22:26
Tolls are going up on Orlando tollroads by about a third April 5, the first toll increase since mid-1990. Most of the toll increases are of 25c - most mainline plazas presently 75c go to $1.00. Mainline plazas with higher toll rates also rise mostly by 25c. many ramp tolls go from 25c to 50c but quite a number don't rise.
Orlando toll corruption investigator dead - boss says killed self
Posted on Wed, 2007-04-04 14:22Scott Pignone, assistant state attorney in charge of investigations into corruption in Orlando killed himself this morning according to his boss district state attorney Lawson Lamar.
Just last week Pignone gained indictments against Ron Pecora, former marketing and PR consultant to the Orlando toll authority and Doug Guetzloe, an anti-toll activity who was paid $107,500 in hush money by the toll authority in a scandal that has rocked the authority the past six months, leading to the departure of the authority chairman Allan Keen.
Florida’s SunPass nears state IO
Posted on Thu, 2001-04-26 01:52Floridas SunPass nears state IO
Originally published in issue 54 of Tollroads Newsletter, which came out in Mar 2001.
Page:31
Subjects:ET Sunpass interoperability
Facilities:OOCEA Turnpike
Agencies:OOCEA FDOT
Locations:Florida FL
Orlando conversion
Posted on Thu, 2001-01-04 05:40Orlando conversion
Originally published in issue 53 of Tollroads Newsletter, which came out in Jan 2001.
Page:3
Subjects:conversion swap-out transpodners bad defectives
Facilities:OOCEA
Agencies:OOCEA
Locations:Orlando FL
Orlando colors
Posted on Mon, 2000-10-30 12:57Orlando colors
Originally published in issue 51 of Tollroads Newsletter, which came out in Sep 2000.
Page:31
Subjects:OOCEA offices
Agencies:OOCEA
SUNPASS:Complex Florida ET system lurches along
Posted on Sun, 2000-10-29 02:54SUNPASS:Complex Florida ET system lurches along
Originally published in issue 51 of Tollroads Newsletter, which came out in Sep 2000.
Page:31
Subjects:Sunpass problems
Agencies:FDOT OOCEA TransCore
Sources:Kelley
OWNERSHIP & WARRANTIES:Florida innovates with sales of transponders
Posted on Tue, 2000-09-26 11:50OWNERSHIP & WARRANTIES:Florida innovates with sales of transponders
Originally published in issue 51 of Tollroads Newsletter, which came out in Sep 2000.
Page:16
Subjects:sale or lease warranty
Agencies:Mark IV Amtech Kelly OOCEA
Locations:Florida FL
The ownership by the toll agency is usually spelled out in the agreement the motorist signs when opening a transponder account.
ORLANDO:Western Expressway, Orlando’s 4th pike opens
Posted on Sun, 2000-08-20 05:29ORLANDO:Western Expressway, Orlandos 4th pike opens
Originally published in issue 50 of Tollroads Newsletter, which came out in Jul 2000.
Page:22
Subjects:new toll road opening survey
Facilities:Western expressway FL-429
Agencies:OOCEA
Locations:Orlando FL
MORALE:The Importance of History
Posted on Sun, 2000-02-20 07:00MORALE:The Importance of History
Originally published in issue 46 of Tollroads Newsletter, which came out in Feb 2000.
Page:20
Subjects:history
Facilities:Pennsylvania Turnpike Penn Pike
Agencies:PTC OOCEA
Locations:PA Orlando FL Pennsylvania
Orlando ‘aggressive’ policies
Posted on Thu, 2000-01-27 17:32Orlando aggressive policies
Originally published in issue 45 of Tollroads Newsletter, which came out in Jan 2000.
Page:21
Subjects:pricing new projects
Agencies:OOCEA
Locations:Orlando FL
ORLANDO FL:Trolleys Crash — Transit/Tollway Opportunity
Posted on Sat, 1999-09-11 05:51ORLANDO FL:Trolleys Crash Transit/Tollway Opportunity
Originally published in issue 42 of Tollroads Newsletter, which came out in Sep 1999.
Page:9
Subjects:trolley crash HOT proposed public opinion survey customer opinion
Facilities:I-4 Semoran Blvd 436 429 Western Ex
Agencies:OOCEA
Locations:Orlando Orange County FL
