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Port Authority NYNJ accepts lesser toll hikes decided by Governors Cuomo & Christie


Friday August 19 was Capitulation Day at the Port Authority New York & New Jersey (PANYNJ).

PANYNJ "Freedom of Information" Administrator asks for more "specificity"


The Port Authority NYNJ's press office hasn't been very responsive to requests for information lately so for a change we filed a "freedom of information" (FOI) request during the brouhaha over the big toll increase they proposed a week back. The two state governors claimed they were blindsided by the PANYNJ announcement but said they'd learned the reason was a threatened bond rating downgrade.

Port Authority NYNJ in panic over bond rating - but state guvs block toll hike plan


A day after the Port Authority NYNJ announced huge toll increases for September, after a panic over a threatened bond downgrade, the Governors of New York and New Jersey conferred Friday and agreed to block the PANYNJ plan. NY Gov Andrew Cuomo and NJ Gov Chris Christie issued a joint statement in which they referred to the PANYNJ toll increases as "indiscriminate and exorbitant."

PANYNJ's weird toll system procurement gets weirder - Boss Tweed rising from the grave?


Early June the PANYNJ was saying that a contract was imminent with its preferred new toll system contractor Electronic Transaction Consultants Corp (ETCC). And once that contract had been executed - "in a week or so" one official said -  they'd be free to answer questions about it. All would then be "transparent."

PANYNJ backs out of $81.9m toll system award to ETC - Orwell 'undecides' decision


The nation's second biggest toll authority seems to be backing out of a decision May 25 by their Board of Commissioners construction committee to award a $81.9m contract to ETC Corp for replacing their toll system.

Edgy design for new PANYNJ Goethals Bridge NJ-NY


Port Authority New York New Jersey (PANYNJ) aka the Seagull has released renderings of a cable stayed design for a new Goethals Bridge. They show an edgy aesthetic of outwardly leaning upwardly bulging towers linked at the top with a sculpted crosspiece, the frames rising between separate roadway decks. There's an empty space in the middle - symbolic?

NJ Governor Corzine against Port Authority E-ZPass perk


A perk for present and past employees of the Port Authority New York New Jersey (PANYNJ) has been criticized by the governor of New Jersey Jon Corzine. The Star Ledger newspaper reported the PANYNJ acknowledgement of the perk and the state governor's disapproval Monday.

PEAK/OFF-PEAK TOLLS:Whitman whittles down PANYNJ tolls


PEAK/OFF-PEAK TOLLS:Whitman whittles down PANYNJ tolls

Originally published in issue 53 of Tollroads Newsletter, which came out in Jan 2001.

Page:8

Subjects:peak/off-peak differential value pricing

Agencies:Port Authority of New York and New Jersey PANYNJ

Locations:New York New Jersey NY NJ

NY/NJ:Port Authority proposes radical new toll structure


NY/NJ:Port Authority proposes radical new toll structure

Originally published in issue 52 of Tollroads Newsletter, which came out in Nov 2000.

Page:1

Subjects:variable differential pricing peak/off-peak

BLOOPER


BLOOPER

Originally published in issue 46 of Tollroads Newsletter, which came out in Feb 2000.

Page:19

Subjects:ET inbstallation conversion

Facilities:Pjiladelphia bridges

Agencies:DRPA Port Authority TransCore Lockheed Martin

Locations:Philadelphia PA

Philly Bridges a TransCore Laggard not Lockheed

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