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Sounds like a good confab.

IBTTA, the toll industry association has said the Lautenberg/Grimm bill s2006 that would require the US transport secretary to set "just and reasonable" tolls on most of the nation's toll bridges and tunnels is unnecessary and would have serious unintended consequences.

Federal regulation of toll rates would add more uncertainty to toll revenues and reduce the ability of toll financing to improve road infrastructure.

Jordi Graells as first VP of IBTTA will be president of the Washington DC based international toll group in 2012. He has recently moved from Barcelona Spain where his company Abertis Infrastructuras SA is headquartered to live in the DC area.

Three toll industry heavyweights the E-ZPass Interagency Group (IAG), the Alliance for Toll Interoperability and IBTTA have come together formally pledging to work together toward the goal of national toll interoperability. Senior officers of the three organizations are signing a two page Memorandum of Understanding and Cooperation (MoUaC) in which they say each of the three want to:

- identify and establish processors, systems and standards to advance interoperability and all-electronic tolling

Six new directors have been elected to the IBTTA board of directors, the Washington DC based international trade association for the toll business.  They are:

Ed Regan, Wilbur Smith Associates' Chief Wonk and Futurist gained major attention at the recent IBTTA conference on interoperability in Dallas TX presenting a bold scenario to 2025.

Newspaper, TV, radio and the net out of Poertland Maine are full of new developments in the "Violette scandal" this week even though it's over a month (March 7) since he was forced to resign from his 23 year job as executive director.  Legislators and journalists continue to slowly but steadily unravel a story of persona

Frank McCartney speaking on behalf of the toll industry group IBTTA - he's president this year - told federal legislators today they need to remove legislative barriers to tolling. He was speaking to the Highways and Transit Subcommittee of the House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee.

Key quotes in an IBTTA release on the McCartney testimony:

Frank McCartney, executive director of the Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission (DRJTBC) since 1999 has begun serving as 2011 president of the IBTTA, the Commission says in an announcement today. He takes over from Steve Snider CEO of the Halifax, Nova Scotia bridge commission.

The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission, America's oldest, and one of its largest state toll agencies created a stir in the toll business when chief executive (CEO) Joe Brimmeier took it out of the International Bridge Tunnel and Turnpike Association (IBTTA) in February 2009.